To the Editor, My earlier letter, I Am Woke, stirred up sufficient interest in the subject to elicit comments from our anti-WOKE neighbors in the area. That was the good part because the one word slogan “WOKE,” has grown to Anti-WOKE” and will define the two political parties for the next election. Democrats are WOKE. Republicans… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver It’s hard to believe that the new big-screen adaptation of the classic Judy Blume novel “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” made only $6.8 million at the domestic box office this past weekend. The theater where I saw the movie was more crowded than usual, and the audience clearly liked… Read More

To the Editor, Minnesota has an opportunity this legislative session to do something bold: significantly reduce child poverty and all of its lifelong lingering impacts. With a significant budget surplus, we cannot argue there isn’t enough funding to make a significant impact. This is the moral thing to do, but also one of the smartest things… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda They’re all grown up and gone now, but The Young Girls—my daughters—will always be teenagers. That’s what I remember them as the most. Diaper stage—who wants to remember that? Terrible twos, same thing. Nope. Teenagers are the most memorable. You know you’ve got teenage girls if: You get into the family car and… Read More

To the Editor, My name is Mattie Simmons, I’m an eighth-grader who likes to write poetry and I was a friend of Izabella (Asher) Garcia last year and I wrote a poem about their death earlier this week. I was wondering since this Friday is the one-year anniversary of Asher’s passing if I could include the… Read More

To the Editor, Senate Democrats brought forward a public safety bill that fails to prioritize any aspect of public safety concerns. Crime in Minnesota has been steadily rising and expanding from the metro outward. Instead of addressing concerns of folks across the state, Democrats gave us a public safety bill that makes thousands of criminals eligible… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda It’s tax preparation time again, and farmers all over the world are turning into creative accountants as they produce the one thing they can count on from their farm: tax deductions. Sure, there must be a farmer somewhere who sold beans when they hit 12 bucks this past year, but they’re rarer… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda Disclosure: This is a biased-against-Russia column. As a long-time student of Russia, I have consumed a great deal of its history. Except for some very brief periods, it is a country that is and always has been run by thugs. Anyone who thinks differently? I quite strongly believe you just haven’t studied… Read More

To the Editor, The 2023 legislative session is a little over halfway done and we expect to see large omnibus finance bills heading to the House Floor for votes in the coming days. I am sad to report that Democrats and Gov. Walz are proposing to spend the entirety of the state’s $17.5 billion budget surplus… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective Chad Koenen I began questioning my sanity last Tuesday afternoon as I attempted to make the close-to 130 mile newspaper delivery route from Henning to Wolf Lake, Detroit Lakes and everywhere in-between. As I was driving all of 15 miles per hour on Highway 10 near Frazee, my phone began to ring as… Read More