As I write this week’s column very early on a frigid Friday morning, my thoughts are more on escaping this weather than on anything else. I mean, it is in the teens and 20s below zero actual temperature, with wind chills in the minus 30s and 40s. Yikes. For a Southern California boy, that ...
Sometimes finding a topic to write about in this space is difficult. Other times, an idea just pops into my head. Other times the topic for the week is obvious. There are times I can’t help myself and I write about a local happening. Other times it is about the Vikings, or the weather or ...
So where and how did you celebrate New Year’s Eve? The poll question in last week’s Faribault County Register asked what is the traditional way that you and your family celebrate New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Well, I am not sure my family has ever had a traditional way. Take ...
Each and every year it takes me way too long and way too much effort to come up with the Top Ten stories of the year. I mean, way too much. I spend a lot of time just listing all of the stories of the year, and then color coding them if they are on a similar topic. I mean like all the ...
It is very hard for me to believe that it is once again time for that column where we give out praise where it is deserved, and give out some criticism where it, too, is deserved. Yes, I can hardly believe it, but it has been three months since we last did our always eagerly anticipated ...
What on earth? Is it really possible? I just realized that as I sit and write this week’s Editor’s Notebook column that Christmas is less than a week away. How can that be? Wasn’t Thanksgiving just a couple days ago and Halloween was just last week? Remember back when we were kids and ...
So what did you do this past weekend? And by this past weekend, I don’t mean the current one of Dec. 12-14, but rather the past weekend of Dec. 5-7. And you will also notice that I am including a weekend to mean Friday through Sunday. That is kind of how we look at weekends in the newspaper ...
This week’s column is about death and taxes, the two things that are inevitable. And it is also about that, no matter how bad things get, there is always a bright side to look at, a glimmer of hope as it were. And all of this column is due to input from our dedicated readers of the ...
I’m sure that if you live in Faribault County and own property here, you more than likely got your statement of proposed property taxes for next year. I know I did. Did yours go up a whopping 498 percent like mine did? Probably not. But more on that later. The key word to remember here is ...
If you watch the morning or evening TV news (and I often do) or read daily newspapers (which I also do), you probably have noticed that there is an awful lot of bad news out there. Gun violence, political unrest, plane crashes and hurricanes. The TV news people never seem to have a lack of ...