13+ hour, 59+ min ago   (657+ words) Yet, if you listened to the Left, you'd think military spending was driving the debt and squeezing the poor. National defense comprises around 13% of the federal budget, far less than the primary drivers of debt, Social Security and Medicare. We…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (497+ words) EAST GRAND FORKS — Just one measure will appear statewide on Minnesota ballots on Nov. 3. It asks a simple question: Should school districts receive a larger payout from the state’s Permanent School Fund? “The fund is a great legacy that’s been…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (320+ words) EAST GRAND FORKS — East Grand Forks City Council members in a special meeting Tuesday approved moving forward with a repair to the sanitary sewer service line at the VFW Memorial Arena to correct a slope problem. City Administrator Reid Huttunen…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (749+ words) ST. PAUL — Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport Police Chief Matt Christenson was working as a sergeant assigned to the general investigative division on Sept. 11, 2001. He was at MSP that day, and he and his colleagues got word of a plane…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (691+ words) Virtually everyone in their mid-30s or older remembers where they were when they heard that an airplane struck the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. I was in a hotel gym in Slovakia; it took two weeks to get…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (129+ words) With the special session behind us, North Dakotans are left wondering: are lawmakers even listening to us? While we took steps to safeguard citizens from kratom, the only other legislation to emerge was a taxpayer bailout of a bungled military…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (520+ words) Twenty-five years ago, I was asleep in my apartment when my dad called and told me to turn on the TV. I turned on the television in time to see the second plane strike the South Tower in New York…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (499+ words) EDITOR'S NOTE: This is first of a two-part series examining how changes in local and state revenue are impacting Grand Forks Public Schools’ budget outlook. GRAND FORKS — Grand Forks Public Schools administrators are beginning to grapple with what could become…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (330+ words) Our national debt has gone up to $40 trillion, or 130% of our GDP. Of course, this is not sustainable; but why is all the talk about the size of the cuts we’ll have to make to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (182+ words) I'm not a policy expert, but I do pay close attention to my health care bills and to what's happening at the hospitals and clinics I rely on here in Minnesota. A few things concern me right now, and I…...