Editorials

It's as predictable as champagne at midnight on New Year's Eve. The Sunday liquor issue has surfaced again at the Minnesota Legislature. And, once again, proposed legislation to legalize Sunday liquor sales looks like it's already dead. But last week things got weirder when an attempt...

The headline on Monday's press release from Lewis & Clark Regional Water System was prescient. "Lewis & Clark RWS Responds to Federal FY14 Budget Allocation: $3.2 Million Leaves Project 'Dead in the Water.'" These laments are - sadly - nothing news for a project that is such an integral...

The coming months are the spring season in our schools, often a time of teen happiness with proms and graduation and for some families a time of sorrow due to teen deaths in vehicle accidents.

When soldiers join the U.S. military, they do so with the an expectation of their community and their country. This expectation includes a military honor guard at their funeral. In recent years, funding from the state and federal governments for military honor guards has been reduced....

South Dakota Secretary of Corrections Dennis Kaemingk told the Daily Republic that the DOC's use of social media to locate walkaway inmates and parole absconders is "in its infancy." It's time to make the effort grow up. In October, Kent Davidson, 36, left a DOC facility where he...

People often wonder why Minnesotans have become so skeptical of state government.