As the opening paragraph in a story on the front page of this week’s Faribault County Register states, if you have ever thought about running for a local public office, now is the time to “toss your hat in the ring.” The filing period for the local offices on city councils and school ...

Just in case you didn’t know, it is an election year this year. There is not going to be a vote for president this year, but there is going to be a primary election in August and a general election in November to vote for a whole lot of candidates for public office. And a few other things as ...

This week I am headed to Marshall, Minnesota, for some summer meetings of newspaper people. There will be several meetings. One will be a meeting of the nine people on the current board of directors of the Minnesota Newspaper Association as well as several staff members of the ...

Took a quick little trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee, over an extended weekend. We went there to visit my Tennessee Hunt cousins. My dad grew up in Chattanooga. And just to make the trip interesting, we didn’t fly, we drove. Don’t ask me why, it just seemed like the thing to do. I have a ...