Don’t fall for this clever phone scam
Detroit Lakes OnlineYou get a phone call, check the caller ID, and discover that it’s your own phone number.Curious, you take the call.That’s a mistake.The Better Business Bureau of...
View ArticleALS bucket challenge is dousing for a good cause
Detroit Lakes OnlineHave you gotten wet yet? If you haven’t, you soon may find yourself in the minority.Of course, we are talking about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge sweeping — or...
View ArticleWhen are we going to take Ebola seriously?
Detroit Lakes OnlineThe latest numbers from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa put the death toll at over 2,200. Unless there are some radical changes on the approach to this epidemic, this...
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Palestine vs. Israel: Options to replace jihad terrorism
Detroit Lakes Online“Israel’s future security depends more on a just peace for Palestinians than on borders marked by barbed wire and fortifications.” –Shimon Perez, Foreign Minister of Israel, Nobel...
View ArticleCass Lake AIS find is all too common
Detroit Lakes OnlineThe question has always been “not if, but when?”On Friday, officials with the Department of Natural Resources announced that zebra mussels, one of the more commonly known aquatic...
View ArticleDayton to Dalrymple: establish oil conditioning standards
Detroit Lakes Online(Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton sent the following letter to North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple concerning the safety of oil trains traveling through Minnesota and North...
View ArticlePalestine vs. Israel: Take down those fences
Detroit Lakes Online“Israel’s future security depends more on a just peace for Palestinians than on borders marked by barbed wire and fortfications.” — Shimon Perez, Foreign Minister of Israel, Nobel...
View ArticleStop muddying the water on Waters of U.S. rule
Detroit Lakes OnlineIn March, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule to close loopholes in the Clean Water Act that have left more than half...
View ArticleGet Sandpiper pipeline back on track
Detroit Lakes OnlineMinnesotans may have some things to fear when it comes to North Dakota’s Bakken oil boom.But brand-new pipelines aren’t one of them. Just the opposite: Brand-new pipelines are the...
View ArticleThe holy land and the caliphate
Detroit Lakes Online“Even differences prove helpful where there is tolerance, charity and truth.” Mahtma Gandhi (Founder of Non-violence 1869-1948)“Take down those fences,” between Palestine and...
View ArticleOther Opinions: Area waters at risk with oil pipeline
Detroit Lakes OnlineBY WINONA LADUKE Guest ColumnistWhat started as 375,000 barrels per day crossing by Rice Lake and the Mississippi headwaters, is now almost 1.5 million barrels per day proposed...
View ArticleHow to ease labor shortages: Raise pay
Detroit Lakes OnlineYears ago, a talk-radio host found a way to silence complaints about a slow housing market, then and forever.The caller was fretting about how long his home had been...
View ArticleThis ‘traffic’ needs to stop
Detroit Lakes OnlineWhile the Oil Patch in western North Dakota may seem a world away, it is, in fact, a lot closer than you think.Traveling by car, Williston, N.D., is only...
View ArticleHerbicide- tolerant crop approvals need to stop
Detroit Lakes OnlineJan 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved the sale and planting of Monsanto’s genetically engineered dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton. This approval follows that of 2,...
View ArticlePeterson: Let Minnesota control wolf population
Detroit Lakes OnlineI have concerns on the recent U.S. District Court’s decision to reinstate gray wolves under the protections of the Endangered Species Act in Minnesota. I urge the Department of the...
View ArticleClean Minnesota lakes well worth the investment
Detroit Lakes OnlineThere’s mixed news on a topic that’s near and dear to our area: clean lakes.As reported in a front-page Star Tribune story, keeping Minnesota lakes clean is hugely expensive....
View ArticleTime to end worker poverty
Detroit Lakes OnlineWorking people should not be trapped in poverty.This was part of the social contract America made with its people eighty years ago in the New Deal: Workers will receive...
View ArticleTime is running out for farmers, ranchers to sign up for CSP
Detroit Lakes OnlineTime is running out for farmers and ranchers that want to participate in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) this year. February 27th is the deadline for the 2015 round....
View ArticleDo your part to stop pest, AIS invasions
Detroit Lakes OnlineIf we’re not careful, harmful insects and plants could leave scars on Minnesota’s environment.That’s the message from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) during National...
View ArticleIncreased LGA a wise investment in rural cities
Detroit Lakes OnlineIt’s time to give cities in Greater Minnesota their due.State funding for cities — local government aid (LGA) — has been frozen and cut since the early 2000s until...
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