Opinion
Small Business Saturday on November 24 looked like it was well-received by a lot of people. I haven’t seen First Street that packed on a Saturday in a long time. Cars lined the street, causing some to spill over into the side streets for the morning and majority of the afternoon.
It was good to...
This week, as Americans gather for their Thanksgiving feast, they will have plenty to be thankful for.
We can be thankful for our family, who love and support us in our daily lives, who are there for us when we need help, and who, in turn, receive love and support from us when they need it.
We can...
The last few months have seemed to go by in a blur at the newspaper. It seems like it was just a short time ago when we were preparing for the school year and fall sports to begin and elections to take place, and now they’re all over, we’ve already jumped into the winter sports season and are...
As a child, Thanksgiving was magical.
We’d wake to the aroma of turkey roasting and a sparkling house smelling of Pine-Sol.
Little crystal dishes could be found throughout the house filled with nuts and those melt-in-your-mouth pastel mints, just in case someone couldn’t wait for the big feast. ...
With all the election news last week, it might have slipped your mind that last week, November 5-9, was Winter Weather Awareness Week. That said, with the weather we’ve had since election day, no doubt, you are aware that winter weather is here.
Minnesotans pride themselves in being hardy when it...
Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. Unlike Memorial Day, Veterans Day pays tribute to all American...
The following seven days will be some of the busiest and most rewarding in the newspaper business.
I love this time of year because of playoff sports, but there is an extra event which we will cover this time...the general election.
I am one of those who loves to stay up late, or early, watching...
After months of campaigning and weeks of annoying negative advertising, election day arrives on Tuesday, Nov. 6.
Since last spring, we’ve seen candidates tell us why we should vote for them, and even more commercials and print ads telling us why voting for their opponent is a bad thing. The barrage...
Since first starting as editor of the Le Sueur News-Herald in 1988, I have covered close to 30 elections. Some of these were major elections and others included just local races. The way elections are covered has changed a great deal during that time, but some things have remained unchanged.
I...
We are less than three weeks from Election Day, and in this week’s issue of The New Prague Times we are presenting our Voter’s Guide, with information on the candidates for local races for the Minnesota Legislature, county boards, city councils and school board.
We encourage every citizen to...
