Columnists
No reason for being reserved with funds
During the past week, as Mower County residents were reading or re-reading notices about their proposed 2013 property taxes, county commissioners were talking about ways ...
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Columnists
Sports fans should not be surprised
While the governor and the Minnesota Vikings wrangle over the team’s need for profitability and the means to achieve it, Minnesotans can at least be ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, November 16, 2012 10:09 am
Columnists
Questions abound after 2012 election
This week’s election could go down in the books as the one where the most effort went into achieving virtually no change. Or it might ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, November 9, 2012 11:22 am
Columnists
Despite drawbacks, nothing for it but to vote
Years ago, when I chided a friend about his lack of knowledge on some election-related topic, he explained that he was actively trying not to ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, November 2, 2012 11:06 am
Austin
Rain doesn’t necessarily mean drought’s end, but it’s still a welcome change
Since some time last fall, the number of days when we’ve had a really hard rain has been few indeed, and it seems like I’ve ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, October 26, 2012 12:51 pm
2012 election
Why all the hoopla over iPhone 5?
For a lot of people, this is a big day: Apple released the iPhone 5.
by Dave Churchill, Friday, September 21, 2012 10:14 am
Archive
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 every stop on the dial, hoping for ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, August 24, 2012 10:47 am
Columns
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 it, though, falls into the category that ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, August 17, 2012 11:31 am
cooking
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. What I wanted one night, it turned ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:21 am
cell phones
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 build a 450-foot transmission tower on the ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, July 27, 2012 10:43 am
Hormel
Spam made us stars of reunion
For many, many months it has been clear that this was going to be the Summer of Spam here in Austin, what with its 75th ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, July 13, 2012 11:31 am
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 the plan for fire department water wars ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, July 6, 2012 10:01 am
climate change
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 about it.
by Dave Churchill, Friday, June 29, 2012 11:04 am
Technology
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 palm of its owner’s hand as was ...
by Dave Churchill, Friday, June 22, 2012 11:16 am
Dave Churchill
Exposing the horror and cost of real war
Like many parents, we struggle with our children’s desire to play video games.