I wasn’t going to be so harsh in this Easter letter but I don’t want to be naive about how things are these days, it looks like America is looking for ways to take God’s final blessings from this country, and what I heard at church Sunday was like a warning for America....

This is the gray-haired brigade venting again. What if you had a fire and nobody came? I was involved in the fire service for some 37 years. Including 13 years as a firefighter, and 30 years on the State Board of the Volunteer Firefighter’s Benefit Association. During this time I met some of the f...

  The Lake Hubert writer (Catholic church woes, March 20, 2013) is in dire need of some religious education. His criticism of church doctrines (“Opposition to women priests, medieval rules regarding celibacy, condemnation of gay marriage and adoption, opposition to condoms and birth control, ...

The U.S. Constitution requires the president to submit his budget to Congress by February each year. Once again Obama failed to do that — but he did get his NCAA picks in on time. Guess we know where his priorities are. Art Becker Pillager  ...

A lying scumbag Many of you by now have already heard of Joe Biden's hotel bill in London of $459,388 for one stay! Our president has routinely gone out golfing with Tiger at about $750,000 per trip on Air Force One.

Time changes, things change and the Cuyuna Range Youth Center is no different. Not all students have had the money to purchase something to eat. This is an area in which each of us can help if we are able.

The Child Care Unionization bills House File 950 and Senate File 778 have been moving quickly through the committees heading for the final vote. The bills call for a statewide unit of family child care providers including legally unlicensed providers.

Politicians are down in the cities spending time worrying about the wolves up north than working on budget unless there is a big snow storm. I get 10 to 15 minutes of homicides, drive-by shootings and gang violence on news time TV.

I would like to congratulate the Brainerd Warrior boys basketball team on their recent trip to the State Tournament. The general consensus is that although they got a tough draw, they played hard and conducted themselves very well.

Meet with Chip Too often one hears the lament from the public that city hall does not care about the public or listen to the public. Personally, I have never experienced that circumstance.