By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Welp, I spoke too soon. By the time you read last week’s paper there were 2 baby calves on the ground alive and well.   If memory does serve me correctly, a bull or 2 may have gotten out last June but I thought we got them back in their penalty… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The other day, someone was complaining about cell phone service. “Hah!” I replied. “You should have grown up with the first rural party lines.” Had they, they might not be quite so upset over what we have now. You have to understand, though, that growing up in the fifties, the first telephone… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver Since Po (Jack Black), the main character of the “Kung Fu Panda” movies, is known for his corpulent eating habits, it makes sense to compare the animated franchise to a sort of comfort food. These movies aren’t exactly “healthy” choices that send the imagination soaring, but they aren’t “junk” that people… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver I wasn’t the biggest fan of the first installment of director Denis Villeneuve’s take on the Frank Herbert sci-fi classic “Dune” back in 2021. The sounds and visuals were great, and I understood why it won so many technical Oscars that year, but I couldn’t get invested in the characters or… Read More

To the Editor, Democrats at the Capitol have been forcing through legislation that follows an alarming trend: eliminating transparency and ignoring input. That trend seems to be continuing into this legislative session. I’m sure folks recall last year, when Democrats pushed through the land transfer of the Upper Sioux Agency State Park. It was done so… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the Farm…We sold another batch of calves last week. Ten heifers and two steers went to the sales barn in Perham. Beef prices are still doing well so dad was pretty happy with how the calves sold.   The week before we bought six pregnant cows to add to… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda Last week, when the new tax valuation statements came in the mail, I reacted quite negatively, because it seemed to me that county government, in its requirement to raise taxes to balance its spending budget, was out to get me. Then, the other night, I had a dream. (No. Martin Luther King… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from New York…I see I did not talk much about the Toto and Journey concert last week.  It was spectacular is all I can say! Lots of energy and many good tunes from growing up in the 80’s.  One teensy bit of disappointment that we discovered while at the show… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda Did you ever think about how many more ways there are to agree to something than there are to disagree? No wonder we all seem to have too much to do. There are too many ways to agree to do it. Mainly, stuff like this is important to me because I seem… Read More

To the Editor, State officials issued a new economic forecast for Minnesota on Thursday, with a looming $1.5 billion shortfall through 2027 overshadowing a $3.715 billion surplus for the current biennium. “Thursday’s news is proof again that Democrats’ reckless tax and spend agenda is driving Minnesota off of a fiscal cliff,” said Backer. “All of us are… Read More