View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist I woke up this morning with a true physical pain in my heart. I knew it wasn’t a heart attack. I knew what it was. It was a physical manifestation of grief. I don’t know if that has ever happened to you, but I presume it has. If… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist Are you one of the many who watch the nightly news and suffer through the commercials about bad knees, arthritis, back aches, bladder issues and forgetfulness…MEMORY problems? After listing all the frightening side effects, the ad suggests you take another pill. There’s a pill for each problem. I’m already… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune Now that it’s over, we can say last week’s storm wasn’t the storm of the century. Sure, it did command the kind of respect for nature that we often ignore.  Just the storm’s predictions caused many of us to stock up on groceries for a… Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone About the same time President Joe Biden was explaining to the public February 16 that three balloons shot down by the U.S. military were probably private, business or weather balloons I stumbled across a story in Aviation Week about pico balloons. The next day I started seeing headlines like; “Did… Read More

On Jan. 6th and state’s abortion rights From Jessica Erlandson, A 2012 MAHS Graduate  formerly of Lowry Delighted to once again see the Tribune publish factual documentation related to deaths surrounding the January 6th insurrection. One hopes it can pierce through the false narratives peddled on right wing channels that continue to drive such division… Read More

Conservation districts need dedicated funding A bill introduced recently in the Minnesota House of Representatives would provide “stable and consistent” funding for Minnsota’s soil and water conservation districts. We’re hopeful it gets out of committee this session and moves forward into law.  The bill would use General Fund money to establish a new $22 million… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist The 2023 legislative session in Minnesota is underway. They have many items on their plate this session and the one that will get the most attention is what to do with the many billion-dollar surplus the state has from the Recovering America Act that sent billions to the states…. Read More

Minnewaska Musings by Paul Gremmels I hadn’t been ice fishing for a few decades, so I called on an old friend of mine who is an avid ice angler. Before I could invite myself out to his fish-house he already had our trip planned for a Tuesday afternoon. He told me a time and which access… Read More

View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist As I started my studies at the University of Oslo, I was lost and intimidated. The University is huge, more than 20,000 students at a campus on the outskirts of town, an area called Blindern. Most of the buildings are tall and people rush back and forth avoiding… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist 22 inches! Holy Moley! That’s too much snow on top of what we already have! Our house’s flat roof will be overloaded and probably collapse. Icicles, ice dams and slippery walkways and roads follow all the falling snow. There’s bound to be accidents, falls and broken hips and wrists…but… Read More