The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist Last week I start a multi-part column on what it takes to create a new public land. A quick review of last week.  We start only with a willing seller that has reached out to a resource agency or a non-profit like Pheasants Forever that will make an indication… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist From the Bureau of Labor Statistics comes some history of gas prices for each year, along with a few comments relevant to the year: 1937: Absolute Gas Price (AGP) $.19. Americans were beginning to emerge from the financial wreckage of the Great Depression. 1938: AGP $.18.      1939:… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist Outside my bedroom windows, the sky is flooded with moonlight. At 5 a.m. I’m awake, reaching for another blanket. I shiver, feel the chill of approaching fall with its accompanying body aches. The change of weather invades my aging joints. Strange, but why is it that as each season… Read More

What’s on the Horizon for Public Health  By Shelley Svec, Horizon Public Health  It is important to advocate for your best interests in all aspects of life, but even more so, when it comes to your health. How can you feel more in control of your health and ongoing care? You can do this by taking an… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune It was great to see the Highway 29 Overpass renamed as the Deputy Josh Owen Memorial Overpass. The event happened last Friday as local and MnDOT officials gathered to memorialize the overpass in Josh Owen’s name. It was an uplifting event and thank you to… Read More

Instead of judging, how about ‘neighbor helping neighbor’ Day From Helen Ann Hoverud Starbuck The easiest thing for us to do as human beings is to JUDGE – whether it be how someone looks, dresses, acts, our cars or someone’s property upkeep compared to our own as well as countless other things – we judge…. Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone Shootings of motorists by law enforcement have been getting headlines for years and people seem to think that there is one solution, police shouldn’t draw arms or maybe even be armed when they approach a vehicle on a traffic stop. I don’t fear being stopped but I am white and… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist I have been writing outdoor columns since March 2003. Some of them are ideas that come from readers like yourselves. I was asked a while back about what goes into the decisions made when land is purchased for habitat restoration. This is a topic many folks are curious about… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist An article by Chris Bennett in the May/June issue of Farm Journal tells an interesting story. Two farmers in southeast Michigan’s Washtenaw County came up with quite a find as they dug into a field of soybeans to improve the drainage on a new 40-acre purchase. Here is the… Read More

View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist To me, and probably to most of you, a welcoming place is where you want to sit down and just be yourself. To me, it wouldn’t be super elegant or expensively decorated. It might sound odd, but I believe houses and places have souls that comfort and welcome… Read More