Daily Globe

ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s new health insurance marketplace leader used his first day on the job to promise that he will improve how MNsure operates. “My focus coming into this is on the consumer,” Scott Leitz said Wednesday. He apologized for MNsure’s problems since it began...

WORTHINGTON — The Worthington Police Department investigated a burglary that occurred Wednesday morning at a 10th Street business. Worthington Director of Public Safety Mike Cumiskey said Wednesday that a call was received at 8:20 a.m. regarding a theft at BenLee’s Café. Approximately...

WORTHINGTON — A Windom man was sentenced to 92 months at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud during a hearing Wednesday in Nobles County District Court. Christopher Gasca, 28, is charged with second-degree sale of methamphetamine and amphetamine in a school zone. In...

GEORGE, Iowa — The Iowa State Patrol investigated an accident at 1:43 p.m. Tuesday on Lyon County A46, one and a half miles east of George. A feed truck auger came into contact with power lines, damaging a utility pole and the lines. Estimate of damage to the pole and lines, owned...

Daily Globe It’s good to know the Minnesota College Athletic Conference has taken the athletics programs other than football off probation, as reported in Wednesday’s Daily Globe. To us, it made absolutely no sense that Minnesota West athletes competing off the gridiron were...

By Gov. Mark Dayton ST. PAUL — The principal credit for Minnesota’s terrific budget forecast belongs to the people of Minnesota. We proved again that we have the best business innovators and the most productive workers anywhere. By working hard and working together, we turned...

By Dama Milbank WASHINGTON — When will the criticism of Obamacare finally end? I’ve done some research on the question, and by my calculations, judging from current trends, this will happen approximately ... never. I base this on the criticism of the auto bailout of early...

By Ruth Marcus WASHINGTON — What a massively disappointing year, and how slim the hopes for a more productive 2014. ‘Tis the season, I know, and sorry to be the bearer of grumpy tidings. But Washington, which never fails to disappoint, managed to disappoint more than usual...

By Gretchen O'Donnell I am not a person who enjoys noise. My sister, for reasons known only to herself, enjoys the bone-jarring sound of a motorcycle racing past her at ungodly speeds. She’d probably like snowmobiles, too, only she lives in a place where snow is scarce and snowmobiles...

West Central Tribune We’re headed into the heart of holiday season, with Christmas about 10 days away. This is also the one of the deadliest times of the year on our nation’s roads. The six-day period that includes Christmas had 18 percent more crashes than the Thanksgiving...

By Joyce Klosterbuer and Marian Hayenga, Operation Christmas Child, Worthington We are celebrating the birth of Jesus, for He is the reason for the season. I heard on the news that an atheist group put up a sign in Times Square that says, “Who needs Christ at Christmas?”...

By Daniel and Marvene Dettman, Worthington We are celebrating the birth of Jesus, for He is the reason for the season. I heard on the news that an atheist group put up a sign in Times Square that says, “Who needs Christ at Christmas?” Then they crossed out the word “Christ”...

One year ago Three finalists were named for the Nobles County administrator position. They included Jackson County Coordinator Jackie Fransen, Charles Kell of Little Chute, Wis., and Thomas Johnson of Eagle County, Colo. All three were coming to Worthington for second interviews...