Several area schools district announced closings Thursday in response to weather conditions, with many after-school activities also canceled: —Austin Public and Pacelli; kids corner closed ...
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Forecasts call for light snow most of the day today, with a chance of freezing drizzle before temperatures begin to fall this evening toward a ...
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning that includes Austin and Mower County. The warning calls for 4-9 inches of new snow ...
Austin has already received 1.5 inches of snow, but the heavier white stuff is on the way. The National Weather Service expects the storm to ...
If you’re running a state and you want to increase revenues, you’re in a real pickle. Your revenues come from taxes, and no one likes ...
One doesn’t have to work in the newspaper business long before it becomes obvious some parts of the job aren’t much fun. Fortunately, there are ...
There seem to be two schools of thought about President Obama’s decision to use military drone aircraft to execute Americans who are involved in terrorism ...
For years — for decades, actually — I carried in my wallet a tattered card that attested to the fact that I am an Eagle ...
Anyone who lives in the Upper Midwest knows that keeping a low profile is just what we like to do. The showy flamboyance of California ...
Whenever a politician arranges to be photographed signing something with a group of children looking on, it is a good time to start feeling skeptical. ...
Every year, just about the time the Legislature holds its first session, groups with a cause make tours around the state to talk with newspaper ...
When an impaired driver gets into a wreck, after-crash discussion never focuses on the car’s powerful engine. Why should it? If the driver was drunk ...
The State of Minnesota has a problem. OK, it actually has lots of problems, but the most recent one is this: People just aren’t gambling ...
Mary Clare Wadding from the Austin Public Education Foundation called me the other day about the Floor on the Wall. Because that word combination — ...