In less than a month, students throughout the state will grab their backpacks, hop on the bus and begin a new school year.

WASHINGTON - One is hard-pressed to top silliness this political season but a strong contender would be recent speculation about Mitt Romney's likely running mate and the benighted "boring white guy (BWG).

The following editorial appears on Bloomberg View: The United States this year is set to have the worst outbreak of whooping cough since the 1970s. Already, from January to mid-July, there have been 17,000 registered cases and nine deaths.

The July 28 article "Next dispute: Should all the disabled have voting rights? Fri, 08/10/2012 - 5:23pm

“This is going to be great! We’re going to the movies and getting pizza,” said a second grade child as he left with 50 other children in kindergarten through eighth grade who participate in the Fun ‘N’ Friends/Senior Leaders program at Washington Educational Services Building (WESB) to go ...

Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supporting President Obama, released a much-discussed ad that implies Bain Capital is to blame for the death of the wife of a laid-off steelworker. I think the ad goes too far, given that Joe Soptic’s wife died five years after Bain closed his plant and that she had - though later lost - her own health insurance — for a time — after he lost his job.

The unemployment rate remains stuck at more than 8 percent. More investment in roads, water systems, airports and other public infrastructure would bring both short- and long-term benefits.

We are fortunate in the Brainerd Lakes area to have a variety of financial services options, which gives consumers lots of choice. One of those choices is our local credit unions.

By Bob Olson Brainerd City Council I have been representing the citizens of Brainerd since Jan. 1, 2001, and have reviewed the city's yearly audit report since 2001 through 2011.

By Mark D. Cummins President & CEO of the Minnesota Credit Union Network I am writing in response to a letter you received from the Minnesota Bankers Association that questioned the validity of credit unions' tax exempt status. Within the letter, Mr.