Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed that there will be a 2012 moose hunting season. It is scheduled to open Sept. 29 and close Oct. 14. The DNR's bull-only season will cull an estimated 50 moose from Minnesota's herd.

Freedom of speech is a great action that is guaranteed to all United States citizens by our Constitution. It's a basic right.

Changes are the one certainty in journalism. How we gather and disseminate the news today is a far cry from how it was done 50 or even five years ago.

Students need the best teachers Our nation's schools have become and national security issue.

As an invited guest of the Brainerd Lakes Sunrise Rotary Club yesterday, I was impressed by one of the projects the group has taken on —“Healthy Brains For Children,” (HBFC) which seeks out pregnant mothers-to-be asking them to refrain from drinking alcohol during their pregnancy....

Public employees are finding it difficult to convince local, state and federal government that their higher pay and benefits that far outweighs those given to employees in the private sector are fair.

Warmer than normal March temperatures is causing some to feel euphoric. Many are out driving our streets and the country back roads to be an eyewitness to an early spring in the lakes region.

Once again the Minnesota Vikings' stadium issue is hanging by a political thread.

Last week's USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, taken after a U.S. soldier allegedly killed 16 Afghanis, suggests that 50 percent of those polled favor speeding up a withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan before the 2014 target pullout date.

We all have 'em. Some of us have strong ones, others not so much. It's been said that one's as valid as another. What am I talking about? Opinions, of course. In the last several weeks I have been privileged to write the opinion in this newspaper.