Bulldogs big loss could be a springboard

Thu. Feb. 2nd, 2012  |  John Gilbert

The good thing -- make that, the ONLY good thing -- about the complete meltdown of the UMD men’s hockey team last Saturday night was that if the Bulldogs rebound and rise to win the WCHA title or go on to repeat glory in the NCAA tournament ...

Have Gary Bettman And The Nhl Trumped The Sports Leader? Super Bowl Week Is Here—And More!

Thu. Feb. 2nd, 2012  |  Marc Elliott

ESKO… The NHL All Star weekend is past us, and to me the biggest highlight of the weekend was Big ‘Z’ Zdeno Chara breaking his own hardest shot record in the skills competition. The new record is 108.8 mph!

Racism is Alive and Well in America and in the Northland, But So Are Militarism and Economic Oppression (per MLK)

Thu. Feb. 2nd, 2012  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

Progressive Northland residents were shocked this week by the negative internet comments (received from people all across the nation, including locally) that were directed against the worthy Unfair Campaign ...

Another Prophetic Voice for Truth and Justice

Fri. Feb. 17th, 2012  |  Gary G. Kohls, MD

By: Iris DeMent

Momma, Don’t Put These Guns in the Ground

Fri. Feb. 17th, 2012

Radioactive waste from nuclear reactors is so dangerous and for such an incomprehensible length of time that no permanent, safe location or technique has ever been found to isolate any of it. Radioactive wastes are produced at every stage of the uranium fuel chain: at mines, mills, chemical conversion and enrichment plants, during fuel fabrication and reprocessing. The most voluminous wastes are the 100 million tons of abandoned open-air uranium mill tailings in the western United States; the most dangerous are the ferociously radioactive used fuel rods.

The free market has me suspicious about the food market

Fri. Feb. 17th, 2012  |  Forrest Johnson

Oh, to be a capitalist, a free market capitalist, in the industrial grade food business. It can’t get any better as long as people still mate and produce more little consumers as blind as their parents when it comes to eating habits. Hey, don’t get me wrong. I’m no saint when it comes to the delights of food and the revving up of serotonin levels at the table of plenty. There are no kettle chips I can resist. The best I can do to exercise my will is not enter that aisle of bli

The Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

Fri. Feb. 17th, 2012  |  Ralph LaPlant

At my bird feeder were the usual species. I saw purple and goldfinches, blue jays, chickadees, nuthatches, downy and hairy woodpeckers, and sparrows. All of a sudden I saw a brilliant flash of white and black and observed a red patch on the breast of a bird a little smaller than a robin. I was pleased to see this addition to the “crowd,” a rose-breasted grosbeak, and within a few days I saw his mate.

Lyceum

Fri. Feb. 17th, 2012  |  Harry Drabik

Some don’t recall it, while others don’t wish to acknowledge how at one time public education was a model for American values and progress. Most parents, if it was within their reach, wanted better for their children. Before “public” education was available, the likely ways to do this were by signing a child (sometimes for a fee) to indentured service (free labor) so he (in general only males were educated) could learn skills, to a guild (much the same as indenture), or a favored few (in part due to limited capacity) were allowed entry to a church school where a boy learned to copy, sing, and do menial work. The poor and their children had little opportunity to move above their station in life. Many children learned skills strictly from work with their parents or in their community, the majority of whose members were illiterate. The Protestant Reformation with its emphasis on individuals reading the Bible in their own tongue caused many parishes to provide limited education, primarily in reading, often excluding fem