The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda As you know, I made a large part of my livelihood servicing home appliances, and there came a day, after puzzling over what was wrong with various washing machines, dryers, water heaters, furnaces, and so forth for many years, I realized that they were communicating with me. I was surprised, let me… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the Farm…Survey says…33 calves on the ground, up from 16 last week.  Last Thursday we had four calves in one day, the record is six I believe and that has happened a couple times over the years.   We are just over 51 percent calving done 11 days into… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The GossipBox Café, on these dragged-out miserable and muddy days between winter and summer, packs the coffee crowd in at ten and two. Let’s listen in on these coffee-cup ten o’clock farmers: “Who’s buying coffee?” “If’n the sun don’t come out today, I’m calling the auctioneer and puttin’ the whole shebang on the block.”… Read More

Just a few months into the second term and already chaos reigns supreme. While the Oligarchs play around with the very basic tools of our democracy, millions of our people, Republicans and Democrats alike plus the unaffiliated, are facing an unknown future financially, medically, and basic living necessities like safe food, safe water, safe living… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The arrival in the mail of the large white envelopes filled with the pretty blue papers marked “important property tax information enclosed” is not the highlight of anyone’s day. It’s not even the best of a worst day.  This eighty acres on which I live went up in value $100,000.00. That’s just… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Notes from the Farm… The magic number is 16 calves on the ground. It should be 17, but one woke up dead the other morning. Quite a loss when a 10-day-old calf is laying in the pasture cold and out of life. The calf showed no signs of sickness or… Read More

To the Editor, There’s no way around it – our state is facing a $6 billion deficit and it’s something we have to contend with sooner rather than later. This deficit is a clear signal that we need to get our budget and priorities in check. Unfortunately, when it comes to the education area of the… Read More

To tbe Editor, Minnesotans’ access to health care, more specifically eye care in new and meaningful ways for communities of all sizes, is at a crossroads at the State Capitol, and your input is necessary. Currently, in the Minnesota Legislature, SF 1144/HF 1011 would modernize the scope of practice for optometrists to use their knowledge and training… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver After a mere two weekends, “A Minecraft Movie” has claimed the top spot of the 2025 domestic box office. It’s not shocking that this franchise piece beat out January fare, but since then we’ve had an MCU entry and this movie just blew right past it. And I have to ask:… Read More

By Pastor Ryan Stockstrom Harvest Church Easter week is here! As we take time to celebrate this year, I wanted to pause and reflect on the why. If you believe that God revealed Himself in history through the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, then it naturally leads to another question: Why did Jesus endure what He did?… Read More