Families walk into Tornstrom Auditorium each spring for the final concert of the school year. We pay admission or make a donation, pick up a program, and work our way toward open seats.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has injected itself into U.S. foreign policy making regarding Syria. It's not the first time lawmakers have moved to pressure a president to take a momentous step that could involve U.S. lives and treasure.

For those of us trying to sort out the debate over economic "austerity," there's a limit to what can be learned by inspecting the credentials of the contending economists.

Given last week's revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, it's worth recalling President Obama's Ohio State University commencement address.

In discussions of IRS-gate, comparisons abound to an earlier scandal that brought down a president and made many political and journalistic reputations. But the focus on who knew what and when in the tea party debacle misses the point.

We have witnessed remarkable performances this past week in the unfolding drama involving the Internal Revenue Service.

President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency.

In recent years, Minnesota's tourism and hospitality industries have struggled to recover the business they lost during the Great Recession. It's been a slow, difficult struggle.

Recently representatives of Brainerd High School (BHS) presented a proposal to Independent School District (ISD) 181 School Board members to eliminate class rank during the May 2 Curriculum Committee meeting.

I was at the meeting last week when John Ward met with a group of supporters of traditional marriage. I feel that those who spoke made some very valid points about why marriage should be one man, one woman. I agree with them all. I would also like to point out that nobody mentioned how our religious...