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Opinion: Dayton’s tax proposal is a camouflaged increase

If you’re running a state and you want to increase revenues, you’re in a real pickle. Your revenues ...

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Progress edition highlights area communities

One doesn’t have to work in the newspaper business long before it becomes obvious some parts of the ...

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Drones pose many concerns

There seem to be two schools of thought about President Obama’s decision to use military drone aircraft to ...

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Boy Scouts offer valuable lessons for all young men

For years — for decades, actually — I carried in my wallet a tattered card that attested to ...

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Innovation may be key to Midwest’s economy

Anyone who lives in the Upper Midwest knows that keeping a low profile is just what we like ...

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Opinion: Reason to be skeptical about latest gun plan

Whenever a politician arranges to be photographed signing something with a group of children looking on, it is ...

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Advocates for revenue are a sign of the times

Every year, just about the time the Legislature holds its first session, groups with a cause make tours ...

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Address causes, not symptoms

When an impaired driver gets into a wreck, after-crash discussion never focuses on the car’s powerful engine. Why ...

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Opinion: Minnesota gambling with safety of residents

The State of Minnesota has a problem. OK, it actually has lots of problems, but the most recent ...

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APEF offers unique chance in AHS project

Mary Clare Wadding from the Austin Public Education Foundation called me the other day about the Floor on ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Questions abound after 2012 election

This week’s election could go down in the books as the one where the most effort went into ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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