Notes From The Capitol By Paul Anderson, State House Representative District 12B With Gov. Tim Walz signing legislation putting Minnesota on the track to totally carbon-free electric generation by the year 2040, it’s becoming more evident the cost of this mandate is going to be high. In addition to the fact that green energy, itself, is more… Read More

Responds to letter on Jan. 6 riot From Larry Kenney Plymouth, Minn. (formerly of Glenwood) This letter is a response to Steve Nestor’s Letter To The Editor printed in the Feb.13, 2023 Pope County Tribune. I have noticed that some conservative networks try to present a few statements that are true and several that are… Read More

Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator When it comes to selecting flowers to plant in my garden, I am always looking for scented varieties that bring the fragrance of the garden into my home. So many beautiful cultivars have had their sweet aroma bred right out of them. I am always disappointed upon discovering that… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist Brent Olson, former hog farmer from the Ortonville, area, had a column with that title in the Minnesota Farm Guide of Sept. 5, 2014. That’s soon 10 years ago. At my farm, in those nine years, I’ve had wet years and dry years. In wet years, the rains are… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist If you want to start a conversation that has the greatest chance of going sour all you need to do is to start asking people about wolves in Minnesota. When you live where I live, which in the south west part of the state, there are no wolves to… Read More

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