March 2021
- March 23, 2021Meinerts: Stimulus not so stimulating To the Editor: Trillion — a figure we hear a lot from our Washington bureaucrats. Does anyone even understand how big that number is? A million seconds is 11.57 days, a billion seconds is 31 years and a trillion seconds is 31,688 years. The 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package that those nitwits in Washington passed would give every man, woman and a child in…
- March 16, 2021Gust: Health care professionals need protest the vulnerable To the Editor: This morning (March 12) I was taking my dog Charley out and saw thebrightening in the east of the sunrise, announcing a new day. The night’s darkness was passing away. I was thinking that yesterday was the one-year anniversary of theWorld Health Organization proclaiming the Covid-19 virus to be aworldwide pandemic.What a…
By George Bonnema, Luverne HorticulturalistMarch 09, 2021I haven’t been submitting any garden articles for the paper for a year because I thought I had all of you educated enough so I could retire. Someone recently reminded me that we are humans and we forget … “so what’s wrong with refreshing our memories?” Well, that’s not a hard task for me, so here goes. … We have survived winter, and if there is one good thing about extreme cold (other than higher…
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