Let’s talk about the weather, and all the ways that people over the years have figured out to predict it. Along the way, I’ve got a couple ways of my own which I’ve developed over the years. A lot of weather predictions are indirectly connected to  barometric pressure, BP, which is itself connected to the weight… Read More

I don’t go fishing much on opening day. For one thing, it’s always too cold. About the last thing I want to do after freezing my nether parts off all winter is take them out in a fishing boat where I can freeze them off some more. Bad as winters have been lately, they’re all… Read More

By Robert Williams Editor When it comes to energy regulating policies, one can typically look to California to see what kind of nonsense is on the horizon for the Midwest. The state’s clean-air regulators introduced a plan last week to ramp up the sale of electric and zero-emissions vehicles, while phasing out the sale of new gasoline-fueled… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief I have been slacking on my editorial section lately.  I’m surprised I haven’t heard from the Rochert Stalker.  Let’s try to get back into the swing of things. We have a bunch of hay down ready to be baled.  With the high temps the last weekend we hopefully got a lot… Read More

Friday, June 3 1:45 p.m. Complaint of loose dogs on Cherry Ave. Owner given a verbal warning. 2:20 p.m. Report of a rolling domestic. Female driver, Jolene Stewart, 40, Detroit Lakes cited for speeding. 6:13 p.m. Report of a male party trespassing on a property owned by he and his wife. Couple is separated. Civil issue as the… Read More

Question: I have noticed that some of the local express shuttle buses do not stop at railroad crossings. I thought all buses were supposed to stop before crossing railroad tracks. Can you talk about this? Answer: If it is a school bus or Head Start (early childhood programs, etc.) bus then they are required to stop… Read More

(I found the first wood tick of the season; here’s my favorite wood tick column.) I sat in church last Sunday and marveled as I usually do at how one’s mind tends to ramble past thoughts much more freely there. Is it the austere tones of the interior decorating? The largeness of spirit? The communion with… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective Chad Koenen Does anyone know how you become a meme?  I think for my summer project I want to figure out how to go viral as a meme. That being said I don’t want my meme to be too embarrassing, like Michael Jordan crying elephant tears or anything that has to due with the… Read More

The Prairie Spy Alan “Lindy” Linda  “I know you don’t ignore me on purpose,” said the woman in my life the other day. This of course begs the question of a couple of things: First, please don’t feed me home run lines like that one, because I might bust a gut swinging for the left field fence… Read More

Ask A Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow Question: We were driving down the interstate the other day and I was passed by a vehicle and I noticed the front passenger had their feet up on the front dash. This was a newer vehicle so I know there are air bags and this got me wondering if this was legal. … Read More