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Why all the hoopla over iPhone 5?
For a lot of people, this is a big day: Apple released the iPhone 5.
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Good old convention days long in the past
My friends and I grew up with four television channels. On dull summer days we laboriously clicked through ...
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It would be funny if it weren’t sad
Some of the news we report here at the Herald is tragic, some is humorous. A lot of ...
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Real concern or early sign of becoming crotchety?
Because the family was out of town, I have been cooking whatever I want for supper this week. ...
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Cell phones don’t equal safety in wilderness
A month or so ago, Minnesota’s Court of Appeals sided with a cell phone company that wants to ...
Columnists
Spam made us stars of reunion
For many, many months it has been clear that this was going to be the Summer of Spam ...
Columnists
Missed out on festival’s water war opportunity
I’m kicking myself because when I read through the Freedom Fest schedule last week I did not notice ...
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Unpleasant heat is on earlier than normal
Woke up thinking about a funny column related to this week’s heat wave, but decided there’s nothing funny ...
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MRIs, X-rays should catch up with smart phone tech
They say a typical new cell phone, an iPhone or Android, puts as much computing power in the ...
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Exposing the horror and cost of real war
Like many parents, we struggle with our children’s desire to play video games.
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Cell usage raises many questions
Walking over to the library the other day, I had to dodge off the sidewalk to escape collision ...
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Recent weather may point to climate change
May’s rather sparse rainfall total may have been a reminder that climate change is being felt across Minnesota.
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For holiday, learn from mistakes of others
This column has run in this paper before. Each time, however, I hear from people who are reading ...
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Another sign that it’s time for online legislature
Twenty-plus years ago, I was editing the daily newspaper in Fergus Falls, Minn., where the biggest employer was ...
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Fireworks decision is mostly about responsibility
Yesterday’s Herald had just gone to press when my wife stopped by my office to talk about our ...