As our nation battles a pandemic viral outbreak and suffers from the effects of the resulting national shutdown, the last two weeks have produ…
May is Mental Health Awareness Month – and it couldn’t have more inspired meaning than it does right now. Staying healthy during COVID-19 appl…
Every Memorial Day Monday morning, my mother and father invite my children and myself to join them at Harris Township Cemetery to join more th…
In Minnesota, more than 580,000 families are housing cost-burdened and pay too much for housing. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased financial…
Beyond the serious threat to our health and safety, COVID-19 has brought on significant challenges for many communities here in Minnesota. We’…
State Representative Sandy Layman, R-Cohasset, issued the following statement regarding Gov. Walz’s announcement lifting the state’s Stay at H…
I think we can all agree it has been an extremely difficult two months for our community and state as we have had to adjust to a temporary, ne…
For my kids and myself, I don’t get to say goodbye each morning. Instead we transition from our upstairs “home life” to going downstairs to daycare.
The night was cold and windy. December in Minnesota can be that way. They were standing on the sidewalk, facing north toward the parking lot w…
In the year 1054AD Asian and Arab sky-watchers noticed something new in the heavens: a new star. This star shown so brightly it was clearly vi…
I was surprised to find an orange paper heart taped to my computer monitor earlier this week. It made me smile as I sat down at my desk and br…
We have heard it said often during the pandemic, “These are unprecedented times.” History has shown that there have been many of these times i…
Most, but not all, secular humanists have a history of affiliation with some religious tradition. Rather than having never heard the spiritual…
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Today I took my grandsons to Legion Park Frisbee golf only to find about a half bag of trash - mostly beer cans and bottles strewn on most of …
Seventy-five years ago, the Allied soldiers discovered and liberated the hundreds of Concentration Camps established by the Nazi regime throug…
I read with great enjoyment the story about Dorothy Pollard. I was fortunate enough to be Dorothy’s supervisor at JCPenney [84-93]. Dorothy wa…
“I can’t breathe!” Those haunting words kept running through my mind as I watched the unfolding events following the death of George Floyd, an…
The purpose of this correspondence is to express gratitude to Representative Sandy Layman for co-authoring House File 331 which aligned the le…
There is good news from COVID-19 for this Memorial Day. We won’t be getting stuck in traffic jams. And, the meat shortage will keep us safe fr…
With this being our first year in business, the Covid 19 pandemic could not have come at a worse time. We had just purchased the two Grand Aut…
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