Like my fellow Americans, I am deeply concerned about our nation’s financial future. Our representatives in Congress must come to a bipartisan solution. Gridlock along party lines will not get the job done. They were elected and paid to get work out a solution that benefits all the people....

The city of Brainerd and the Brainerd lakes area spend thousands of dollars each year promoting this beautiful area that we call “God’s Country.” We pride ourselves in the excellent medical facilities, schooling, lakes, golfing, resorts, shopping and all of the other truly fine amenities that ...

With all the recent talk about “cuts,” people are concerned about cutting government programs they like or that low income people will suffer. I think there’s a lot of fearmongering and misinformation going on, so let’s take a moment to clarify a few things. The budget is what the government...

Wow, $6.4 million in “transportation” funds to renovate the airport. Currently with two Delta flights daily that equates to about 100 passengers daily. “Oh” you say,” there’s more flights in the summer.” OK then 150 passengers a day for $6.4 million — what a deal. It nearly rivals hi...

Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article XIII recognizing marriage as a union between a man and a woman...

It’s hard to believe that our lawmakers allow our corporations to move their industries to foreign countries creating jobs for people in other countries but losing jobs for people in our country. Ironically they sell most of their goods back to the same people they abandoned. It’s very hard for ...

If you and I have souls, doesn’t it follow that human embryos (human lives at their beginning), also have souls? So, when human embryos are destroyed, for their stem cells, aren’t lives with souls being destroyed? Weren’t we all embryos once? Patrick Borden Brainerd...

I remember the explosion of gasoline prices in 2007-08. I also remember how the liberals howled for a year during the crisis. They tried to blame the entire mess on George Bush. George Bush is part of big oil! George Bush was somehow still involved with big oil! George Bush is president of the U.S. ...

On Sept. 9, 2001, a Maryland State trooper gave a speeder a ticket and sent him on his way, he was meeting friends at the Newport Airport, his name was Ziad Jarrah, they found his half burned passport in the wreckage of United Flight 93 along with his fellow hijackers and 40 passengers and crew near...

Two new multi-million dollar solar arrays are in the Twin Cities news. There’s the $3 million photovoltaic (PV) system on the Minneapolis Convention Center roof. Its 2,600 PV panels are expected to provide 750,000 annual kilowatt hours (kwh). This should save $75,000 in power costs, before deducti...