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STAFF BLOG JIMMY JABBER There’s no one to blame but yourself for missing class
Video games are the reason for students struggles in school as much as food is to blame for peoples weight issues. College often is a persons first taste of freedom (loads of free time) from parental ...
Posted on 12/27/11 at 1:00 AM
Local view: Beware the demogogue, democracy’s big enemy 
In March I wrote a letter to the editor about cowardly legislators who act so as to appear to be doing something, whether good, bad or useless. In a one-room, rural schoolhouse in northern Kentucky in 1918, my father and his fellow seventh-graders were taught to recognize such politicians. Following is an excerpt from one of my father’s civics texts:
By William H. Rees , May 12, 2013
Local View: Boston bombing was terrorism, not jihad
While the investigation continues, political analysts and U.S. officials portray Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, as “aspiring jihadists.” Vice President Joe Biden described them as “two twisted, perverted, cowardly knock-off jihadists.” The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed with the evocative headline, “Make no mistake, it was jihad.”
By M. Imran Hayee , May 12, 2013
Local view: Surfing Superior a special experience
We’re not going to make it, I think to myself as my surfing buddy, Luke Kavajecz, and I dig our hands into the water. In front of us is a wave taller than my Duluth home. The crest of the wave starts to feather, buffeted by the strong, bitter northwest wind. In the next two seconds one of two things will happen:
By John Hatcher , May 11, 2013
Local view: Duluthians should be proud of help sent to African community
As I flew from Duluth to Africa to help implement clean-water projects through Rotary, I thought I was prepared. I had my immunizations, researched the area and packed the correct clothing. I was ready.
By Crystal Taylor , May 07, 2013
Local view: Opposing gay marriage is not discriminatory
Marriage is too important an institution to be redefined.
By Liz Hoefferle , May 05, 2013
Local view: Rural Minnesota needs reliable wireless service
Mobile apps are a thriving industry, but we need a strong wireless broadband system to support our efforts.
By Jake Dahl , May 05, 2013
Local view: Pension surcharge is an unfair bailout
In the decades I’ve worked in the insurance industry, I’ve been baffled at how heavily insurance policies are taxed and how little consumers know about it. Yet the Minnesota Legislature is looking at adding another new tax on our customers to bail out an underfunded pension fund for public-safety employees.
By Steve Knutson , May 03, 2013
Local view: Please ask lawmakers to support affordable housing
While Duluth has a lot to offer residents — including a diverse economy, arts and culture and majestic views of nature — what it doesn’t seem to have enough of is housing.
By Pam Kramer and Rick Ball , May 02, 2013
DNR's view: Keep fishing a Wisconsin tradition
Northern Wisconsin weather for the fishing opener has been notoriously fickle over the years, and some have joked that this year may be more suited to ice fishing.
By John Gozdzialski , May 01, 2013
Local view: Miranda ruling often misunderstood
Since the arrest of Suspect Number Two in the Boston Marathon bombing, I have read many misunderstandings of the Miranda ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Steven Carter , April 30, 2013
Local view: Frank Red Plan dialogue needed to heal community
It’s time to talk about the elephant in the Duluth school district. We all know it — the Red Plan and, specifically, the process used to put it together and how the final decisions were made.
By Damien Cronin , April 26, 2013
Local view: Americans won’t let fear stop them
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: I am a big chicken. Not the scared-of-my-shadow type chicken, unless it’s dark or I’m alone in an empty house, but a scaredy-cat nonetheless. I have an irrational fear of spiders, which some people refer to as a “phobia,” but I think “phobia” somehow implies I am crazy. There is nothing crazy about being scared of creatures that are faster than I am, can bite and are sometimes poisonous. Never mind I am roughly a million times bigger than they are. I look at this as a case of the-bigger-they-are-the-harder-they-fall. Which is why I have my 4-year-old kill them for me. No way she will go down as hard as I will.
By Moriah Erickson , April 21, 2013
Local view: Everyone can create goodness to drive out hate
Tragedies such as at the Boston Marathon leave me feeling helpless against the circumstances in our world. I read the stories, hear the testimonies and watch the terrors unfold. Yet from my home in northern Minnesota I feel distant from the events.
By Ahnna Peterson , April 21, 2013
Local view: Society needs the Church in dark time
We Catholics have had a historical couple of months. Pope Benedict XVI resigned. A conclave took place. And we welcomed our new Holy Father, Pope Francis. With these events, the Church has been in the news quite a bit, and during this time I have noticed a consistent desire from many in the secular world, and in our Christian community.
By Fr. Ben Hadrich , April 21, 2013
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