To the Editor, A 25-year-old nonprofit program is looking for at least 50 Minnesotans to work side-by-side with students during the 2023-24 school year, and trust me—it will change your life. I speak from experience: I’m one of more than 2,200 people who have served in a Minnesota school or community-based organization as a Promise Fellow, an… Read More

“Barbie” prides itself on inspiring a full range of feelings – both in its characters and its audience. The characters tap into dark, sad sides they never knew they had, and they find out life is more rewarding for it. The audience is sure to eat up all the easy jokes and sweetness, sure, but… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda A brush hog is a large, flat, heavy duty mower that fits on the three-point behind a farm tractor. It is driven by the tractor’s power take-off. Brush hogs are pretty handy. Mount that behind a tractor and you can mow a five-foot width through just about anything you can drive… Read More

Chill Fishing Report Cody Hill Sometimes we need to slow down and smell the fish slime from time-to-time.  This past weekend I didn’t have clients and it allowed me to do something that I only get to do once a year and that is to take my nephew fishing. If you know me, I enjoy taking kids… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda The last time I had any commentary on my occasional instances of doing harm to myself was from one of my children. I had slipped and chipped two front teeth as I was climbing onto one of my tractors on the farm. “Look,” one of The Young Girls said to me—(and they’re… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: Hello, I want to work for a farmer during planting and harvest season driving a semi. I have a valid Class D driver’s license but no Commercial Driver’s License. Can I cross a state line while working for the farmer, Minnesota into North Dakota? Answer: Yes, as long as you stay… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver Last summer, when “Top Gun: Maverick” was making roughly all the money printed in the United States during that fiscal quarter, I read a number of articles (many publications jumped on the trend at once) calling Tom Cruise various iterations of “The Last Movie Star.” The moniker is obviously an exaggeration… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda Ma had an unusual washing machine way back in the very late forties, very early fifties. It replaced her old wringer washing machine, which, when she used it, I got to run wet stuff through the wringer. (I know now that she decided that a little risk where she could see… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: Now that motorcycle season is here can you talk about motorcycle operators must “wear” eye protection. Windshields haven’t been considered legal eye protection for many years. Answer: You are correct. No person shall operate a motorcycle without wearing an eye-protective device. No person under the age of 18 shall operate or ride… Read More

Garver’s Movie Review Bob Garver A quick explanation about this week’s movies: with an estimated $40 million at the domestic box office, “Sound of Freedom” had the most money at the end of the weekend. But because it made it a point of opening on Tuesday, July 4, instead of the usual Friday, it had a… Read More