opinion

For nearly three decades MinnesotaCare has been a trusted choice for health care coverage, providing an affordable option for working people earning too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford traditional insurance.

On Jan. 1, 2015, my life forever changed. I awoke with no clothes on, with a bed sheet wrapped around me downstairs in my friend's house. I had been unconscious for 15 hours after attending a New Year's Eve party. That night I was raped, and this is my story.

I am so very glad to hear about the team effort put in by Park Rapids Police, Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force, Headwaters Safe Trails FBI Task Force, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Border Patrol, FBI and West Central Drug Task Force in doing...

For more than 30 years, every state bordering Minnesota — Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota — has allowed cameras in its courtrooms, boosting the public's understanding of legal proceedings and its confidence in the criminal-justice system. And how many documented...

Strike up a conversation about press rights and many individuals likely conjure a picture of editors and reporters demanding access to top-secret data from government officials. No doubt, that occurs more often than most people would like to believe. The reality, however, is that...

I just returned from the Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Summit, which brought together the best minds in the country (and some international experts), and am truly concerned about how climate change and global warming are allowing ever-more dangerous AIS to be able to survive in...

People I meet ask me, "What's going on in Park Rapids? I thought you guys loved clean water?" I tell them we do. We just made a mistake by electing people who don't care. The question is, why are our legislative District 2B Rep. Steve Green and our District 2 Sen. Paul Utke the exceptions...

In addition to the usual tired responses, the recent mass shooting provoked an outcry from young people themselves demanding that their government hear them and take action to address their understandable fears. Their fears are our fears. School administrators, law enforcement and...

Hubbard County could be the poster county for taking smart, preventive measures against the spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS) in its destination lakes. Since the 1990s the Hubbard Coalition of Lake Associations and Hubbard County Commissioners have been working together to...

February is Marijuana Awareness Month. As more states have legalized marijuana, the perceived risk of harm has decreased among youth. This leads to an increased use of marijuana among teens. Most Hubbard County students do not use marijuana in a typical month, but all students are...