Opinions
When we think about the drought, we deservedly so think about the farmers first; all the time they put in and their hard work seem to be for nothing this year. The irrigated fields look like they will produce a decent crop, but the unirrigated fields likely won’t yield much. I have already seen...
It’s been an interesting two weeks. In Washington D.C. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Donald Trump lap dog, contracted COVID after getting vaccinated for the virus. The Senator was reported as saying he was really glad he’d been vaccinated because his symptoms were moderated by his shot.
Here in...
This was supposed to be the summer that we returned to normal. But what a freaky summer it has been. We’re choking on smoke from raging fires in Ontario, COVID is back and sickening the unvaccinated in the form of a mutated virus, and our day-after-day of temperatures in the 90s is only slightly...
A Friend…How can this happen in our country? Florida’s Republican Governor DeSantis signed legislation into law on Tuesday that requires students and faculty of public Florida universities to report their political views to the state starting this July. House Bill 233 requires university students...
I tend to call the Todd County Sheriff’s Office when I see a public safety threat or when a crime has been committed. Over the years I’ve made a number of calls and visits to the Office. I’ve always been treated respectfully and, when action was necessary, the deputies have responded quickly and...
It’s been a fairly dry spring. The only signifiant rain that has fallen came pretty much all at once early in April. Over four days nearly four inches fell. During that time the Long Prairie River almost reached flood stage and then went back to normal.
It seems that heavy rainfall over short...
Just returned from two weeks in the sunny south. It really was the sunny south too. It only rained on two occasions, once in Louisiana and once in Tennessee, unbelievably, both times were during the night. It really felt great to be on the road, especially after being all but locked down for the...
Last week a group of volunteers braved some pretty unpleasant weather and did all of us who enjoy visiting Harmony Park in Long Prairie a big favor. They planted thirty-six trees, including a number of different varieties of flowering crabs, Red maples, Pin oaks, and Burr oaks. Long Prairie City...
We teach our children not to lie. If they do lie, they will have to take the consequences, we tell them. This simple understanding has been around since The Lord gave Moses the Ten Commandments. Our ability to live together as civilized humans requires us to obey this Commandment.
Sydney Powell was...
The Trumpeter Swans returned to the Long Prairie River Valley west of Long Prairie in early March. Their grand trumpeting was greeted with a great friendly chorus of honking from the Canadian Geese that had returned a day earlier. During the following days there was a symphony of trumpeting and...
