Thomas Getman
- By Thomas GetmanNovember 12, 2025Voices are being raised from “occupied” Washington as DC’s citizens struggle with both national and international challenges … even gutting tragedies. National Guard members roam our parks and streets looking lost while aware they are being used as theatrical props. The darkening picture seems rooted in misguided institutional violence with authoritarian abuse of our Constitution and basic…
- By Tom GetmanSeptember 03, 2025Recently friends from across the country and the world expressed concern about what life is like in the District of Columbia, which is occupied by out-of-state soldiers. We are asking, “Why does an authoritarian national leader now feel a need to govern us with misinformation-laced theatrics and an unconstitutional military force in place of our very capable local elected officials?” It has a…
- By Thomas Getman, Guest EditorialJuly 16, 2025Congress recently passed one of the biggest peacetime military funding increases for the military “to protect the country and make us better.” This burgeoning war fund takes inequitably from Americans and the world’s poor by cutting Medicaid, foreign assistance and food aid. It also affects farmers’ capacity to raise and sell crops and is estimated to cost 17 million lives. As Jewish scholar…
- By By Thomas GetmanJune 18, 2025Washington, D.C., where my wife, Karen, and I have had a home for 48 years, is deeply shaken by the political assassinations in our beloved Minnesota. So many people here live and work in circles of friendships with (and have traditional aspirations about) Minnesotans. The Beatitudes teach, among other things, that “blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of justice.” Rep. Melissa…
By Thomas Getman, Star Herald guest editorialApril 16, 2025Our much-appreciated Sen. Tina Smith extolled the virtues of Luverne and Rock County in her weekly coffee for mostly small-town Minnesota visitors in her Senate office on April 10. She raved about the partnership among Luverne officials and child care leaders and the federal government, in which she and Sen. Amy Klobuchar played a role. She noted how the joint advocacy was critical in…- By Thomas GetmanMarch 26, 2025I’m sincerely grateful —even proud — each week when I open the digital Star Herald, and I look forward to later lingering over the print edition. It amazes me to see the large sports section with the many fine athletes and their accomplishments both at LHS and HBC. Sports experiences at LHS provided larger-than-life influence on me and many others. The coaching mentors undergird the ethics and…
- January 12, 2021Some of you know that one of life's joys that I take pride in is my athletic career long ago on the championship football and basketball teams in Luverne. These memories, if verbalized, honor the coaches who were men of active faith who cared deeply for those of us who played for them. They focused more on character building than on winning, and as a result were perennial champions as…
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