Last Wednesday, many of us attended or followed the Stevens County Planning Commission meeting with real concern for the future of our community. People came with different perspectives, including those who support Riverview’s proposal and those worried about its long-term impacts. Our county leaders owe all of us a careful, transparent decision that puts the […]
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I am writing this concerning the Stevens County Planning Board meeting on Monday, Aug. 3, concerning Riverview’s expansion plans. Ag economists teach that market prices send signals, low prices are telling farmers that the market has more production available than it needs. High prices tell farmers that the market is short of production. In my
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When we were children, a cement block building stood in the community’s central park. It wasn’t large; maybe 30 feet by 30 feet. Yellow-and-black signs were mounted on the walls. The rectangular yellow top half included a black circle with three yellow down-facing triangles in the middle. Beneath the circle was a black box with
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We appreciate everyone who attended the recent West River Dairy hearing and the thoughtful questions raised. Those questions deserve clear answers. Three topics received particular attention. Will there be enough water? Yes. The well serving the expansion was previously approved for 452 million gallons per year. Riverview is reducing that by half and expects further
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Two hundred fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia. But America did not become a country only in that room. It became a country as the news moved from community to community. Most colonists did not witness the debates of the Continental Congress. They learned about independence through the newspapers that
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There is a classic proverb, probably older than the world’s written literature. It was used by the Roman poet Virgil more than 2,100 years ago. It was adapted and used again by the English playwright William Shakespeare in 1599. Both great works of literature.It was used by the renowned French scientist Louis Pasteur in the
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The Minnesota Local News Talent Pipeline Program is a bipartisan legislative workforce development initiative to fund paid internships at community-based newsrooms. It applies to newspapers, radio, digital media, and broadcasting.It aims to address one of the key issues for community news: finding and paying for journalists.As originally introduced, the legislation would have provided $500,000 in
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On the very same day the City of Morris opened its new liquor store, a study was released revealing that “drinking alcoholic beverages increases your risk of adverse health effects no matter how small the amount.” Ted Storck
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John Peter Zenger and James Thomson Callender are two Americans you probably never heard of who were fundamental to the freedoms their fellow citizens would one day enjoy.Forty-two years before the Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776, Zenger was the publisher of the New York Weekly Journal. Zenger saw how corrupt the administration
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It’s time for a new fundamental source of funding for community news, Steven Waldman, president and co-founder of Rebuild Local News, says. Throughout our history, subscribers and advertisers have been our foundation.But that foundation has been seriously eroded by the internet and social media, which have stolen community newspapers’ advertising resources. Meanwhile, too many residents
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