Director Michael Looft is smiling a lot these days. The Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF) recently approved a ...

Arkansas whipped prisoners until 1968. Now we celebrate El Salvador’s concentration camps. A reckoning with punishment’s ...

The decades-long effort to build a new fire station in Winthrop became a reality in 2025. In April, voters approved a $38.5-million debt exclusion to finance the construction of a new fire station at ...

It’s hard to believe that another year has passed and that 2026 is here — and that we now are entering the second quarter of the 21st century. For those of us who ourselves are close to three-quarters ...