White House says it has the right to punish AP reporters over Gulf naming dispute
The White House pointed out that the AP was allowed into its briefing Wednesday but continued to take issue with the style of the gulf’s name. “Nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask ...
Where to put the plats?
Where, oh where should the  ts go? And where, oh  where have they been? Those were a couple of the questions the Hutchinson City Council mulled over during last week’s City Council ...
County finds errors in buffer strip map
If other counties find errors similar to those found in McLeod County, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources may have a hard time implementing new buffer strip regulations as quickly as it ...
Opinion
EDITORIAL: New map shows radon’s threat
The Minnesota Department of Health delivered good and bad news to residents this past week. The bad: A map developed by the Department of Health shows how 40 percent of the state’s homes ...
Shakopee to annex 140 acres for possible “major employment area”
It’s official. Shakopee is slowly but surely getting bigger. The city plans to annex Jackson Township, 140 acres where 1,529 people live southwest of Shakopee, with plans to develop the land ...
TECHNOBABBLE: You’re sharing more than you think
We use their services all the time. In return they collect data regarding our lives and use it to target ads at us. Or at least that would be a pretty reasonable trade-off if that’s all that ...
Litchfield City Council approves initial wellness/recreation center plan
The vision of a wellness/recreation center began to take shape for the Litchfield City Council Monday, even if in its most basic form. The Council approved during a special meeting a schematic ...
Mayo tracking tool offers COVID-19 numbers for holiday travelers
ROCHESTER – Mayo Clinic data scientists are urginzg Minnesotans to consult the Mayo coronavirus map tracking tool when making plans for holiday travel. The website is a public-facing web ...
Opinion
Commentary: The Minnesota way
As much as I appreciate my formal education and the doors it has opened, I treasure the lessons the people of Minnesota and its land have bestowed upon me. Lessons the sound of my dad’s ...
Why the hunt is all about the chase
Theodore Roosevelt wrote in The Wilderness Hunter “To me still-hunting elk in the mountains … is one of the most attractive of sports, not only because of the size and stately beauty of the ...
Viva la France
Being less than 48 hours away from boarding a plane at MSP en route to Paris, France, for the experience of a lifetime, I’ve finally found the time to make the first installment in what I ...