President Barack Obama's appointees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have been ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Washington, D.C. Circuit.

Like most people in this area, I too am delighted with the warmer temps and melting snow. It is the landscape that the receding snow has revealed that causes not only concern, but disgust as well.

Warming pause As the Minnesota Twins took the field for their coldest opening day, I was reminded of a recent comment from one of my college's most distinguished professors.

I would like to give an answer to the question asked by the public official and Mike O'Rourke about why we should subscribe to the Dispatch.

Just read the wolf article at 10:20 a.m. March 26, 2013. If four moose die from being tranquilized and collared and two died from wolf kills, obviously DNR Researchers must be carefully managed - not the poor wolf.

Displaced 911 How many lives will we lose here because the highway patrol sent the dispatch office elsewhere? I witnessed someone trying to get 911 and it seemed to take almost five minutes with exact directions to get them to understand where to send help. Most people here would have known where t...

Problems in paradise A few issues back there was an article on the girls that went to Costa Rica on a trip. I know that there are churches that take groups on mission trips to places in Central America and we have gone on some and had a great time.

Baseball season This Monday marks the opening of the Twins season. I used to get excited about professional baseball.

False statement In an apparent attempt to discredit President Obama, a letter appeared in the March 28, 2013, edition of the Brainerd Dispatch containing the following statement. "The U.S.

Mike O’Rourke’s editorial about supporting the newspaper was interesting. I can’t imagine getting the news off a computer screen every morning. It would be like eating pizza without the cheese. I read two daily newspapers, and without these papers and a full pot of Folgers Classic Roast, hot a...