Publisher’s Perspective

It’s time for compromise and resolution of the lot-size issue in Spring City. For some, preserving the grid set up by pioneer settlers, with 1.06-acre lots city wide, is at the center of everything they’ve worked for 40 years.  For others the acre lot size is a burden, a requirement to have more land than…

I recently returned from a meeting of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) at South Dakota State University in Brookings, S.D.  Many of the participants had retired from their newspapers. A few were using walkers and wheelchairs. A lot of others, like me, were past retirement age but still working for their papers…

I find many of Donald Trump’s statements to be vile and offensive. But what upsets me most is the way he vilifies immigrants, legal and illegal. A few examples: Undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” “These are the worst criminals in the world… These people are the most violent people on Earth.”…