At 720 square miles, the Brainerd School District is Minnesota’s fifth largest school district in geographic area. Six public elementary schools lie within its borders: Baxter, Garfield, Harrison, Lowell, Nisswa, and Riverside. Though varying in size, the staff in each of these schools work hard t...

President Ahmadinejad announced Wednesday that Iran is mastering the entire nuclear fuel cycle. That mastery includes mining, processing, enriching, and fabricating fuel from uranium for a nuclear power plant such as the one at Bushehr in Iran.

With the possibility that the next Republican candidate for president may be a Mormon, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) has become a somewhat popular topic in the media.

A recent unsigned correspondence (Vox Pop) published by the Dispatch asked, "Why would any business want to move to Brainerd?" followed by a political rant. Let me identify many reasons why Brainerd would be a winner for your business: 1.

It is often said that team work divides the task and multiplies the success.

Just across the German border in the small Czech city of Temelin is one of Europe's most accident prone nuclear power plants. Green Party officials in Germany have repeatedly called for "the entire facility to be shut down immediately." No longer.

President Obama now follows his earlier rejection of the $10 billion-plus Yucca Mountain nuclear storage project with a rejection of the proposed $7 billion KeystoneXL pipeline extension project.

Forestview Middle School is 339,000 square feet, the entire site area covers 180 acres of land, and we currently have 1,880 students in grades 5-8. At first glance, it could be said that the building looks "imposing." Imposing? Yes.

Significance - that's what Kinship Partners is all about. Each one of us, someday, wakes up and asks ourselves, "What did I do to make a difference in this world?" And some of us, including me, didn't have a good answer for that question.

To be immortal is to be misquoted. Repeatedly, and often at length. It is to have words stuffed into your mouth by total strangers.