Western Minnesota Republicans vote to keep Fischbach over a challenger, while most races around the state resulted in a wide margin between candidates.
The core guiding principle of our newspaper is to connect with our communities – as humans – to produce informative, entertaining, meaningful coverage that serves them.
Ballyhooed new Minnesota law has seen limited use in other states. “It’s as if the law doesn’t exist,” says one expert. Regardless, it has potential to prevent mass shootings and suicides.
I began to ask myself: If the journalists in Marion, Kansas, are not very different from the journalists in Rochester, Minnesota … then what about the readers? Would you say we probably deserved it?
Despite an industrywide sense of doom-and-gloom, it’s a better story than you might think, and it’s a story we will continue writing for some time to come.
The U.S. Postal Service is dysfunctional, timeworn, and hemorrhages billions of dollars a year. It’s also an essential operation that still knits communities together and helps major private carriers get their packages to doorsteps.