City Council members are poised tonight to pass a budget with much less of a tax increase than was proposed a month ago by Mayor Kim Ecklund. That’s good in the short-term. The increase in costs that we have seen across the board has pinched many homeowners’ budgets, so even small tax ...
Next week we celebrate Thanksgiving. At this point I have no plans but it will all come together. How Thanksgiving has changed down through the years. We used to go to Grandma Swanson’s but when she no longer could do it, we went to my sister-in-law’s. I always worked right up through ...
Our county’s population loss is being acutely felt in rural school districts, where the fairly small but steady population loss makes it difficult to provide elective courses and extracurricular activities that were common as recently as the mid 1990s or early 2000s. Shared sports teams ...
Who wants to buy a dozen doughnuts and throw 9 of them in the trash before they leave the store? That is about what you’re doing when buying gasoline for your car. Americans spend $179 on gasoline each month on average. That adds up to $2,148 a year. What makes this even worse, according ...
The American Dream for many people means starting a business and working for themselves. That’s a good thing because small businesses form the backbone of our economy. According to recent statistics from the U.S. Small Business Administration, 99.9% of American businesses are small and ...
Before the election, I wrote on Facebook, “Even if you have been called a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, transphobe, xenophobe, Islamophobe, misogynist, white Christian nationalist, cultist, fascist, NAZI, and every other kind of insulting pejorative, put down, and label including garbage, ...