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Only three chaotic and fearful days after Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent in a Minneapolis residential neighborhood, we sat with about 150 other folks in a local church sanctuary for a hastily organized peace vigil. Area clergy invited us to speak of our fears (there were many), our sadness (again, many) and our hopes (not as many). We agreed: ICE OUT NOW!
Just because the U.S. Mint is no longer making pennies, we don't need to round off purchases.
Could Washington's congressional boundaries be redrawn to get another Democratic district?
It’s a new year, and my husband is still unintentionally providing me with plenty of column fodder.
Hard as a person tries, some things stick — things that we never stop caring about — things we tend so hard they tune our senses, earn a peek of an eye, a perk of the ear, the soft settle of recognition in a mind.
The 2026 legislative session starts Monday but you won’t have to brave a snowy pass to watch or even participate in that drama.
I have known personally and now said farewell to an item that surely deserves special recognition in the category of “they don’t make ’em like that any more.”
Usually the final Front Porch column I write every year, or sometimes the first one of the new year, is my very favorite one of all – the word of the year column, in which I chew on the words or phrases that lexicographers and others involved in language study have selected to best define the year just ending.
For nine months, while my wife, Traci, and I waited for our son, I kept returning to one question like a meditation: What will he call me?
This seems like a good time for Spin Control to make predictions for 2026.
This holiday season, police departments across the country will repeat their laudable annual efforts to deter drunken driving. Yet more than a decade after states began legalizing recreational marijuana, or cannabis, effective policies to counter driving while high on it don’t exist. There are several reasons the danger from cannabis-impaired drivers has so far gone largely unaddressed, and why the threat is increasing.
The call came into the newsroom. A longtime reader named Bob was waiting in the lobby.
This morning people everywhere are opening presents and gathering together with family and friends – observing the religious meaning of the season and/or celebrating the joys of all that happens this time or year.
Because no one wants to read about politics on Christmas Day, here's something light for readers who pick up the paper sometime between the kids waking up before dawn and everyone passing out after a big dinner with too much to eat and drink.
Across the country, a good many Nativity scenes outside churches of many denominations have caused important political controversy. At a Catholic Church in Dedham, Massachusetts, all supporting characters surround the manger, but Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus are gone. In their place is a boldly printed sign: “ICE WAS HERE.”
A curious reader wanted to know where America gets the names for the generations. We try to answer.
Years ago, I wrote a column about how much I dreaded my kids’ annual holiday concerts.
Talk of major new state taxes – income and other kinds – is predictable as the legislative session approaches. But talk might be all it is.
It came a day or two late for Thanksgiving, but congressional Republicans gave democracy lovers something to be thankful for over the holiday weekend: signs of spinal fortitude.
As soon as he was nominated to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, with his Crusader cross tattoo and his attendance at a hard-edge Calvinist church, became a natural vessel for liberal fears about that dread ed concept “Christian nationalism.”
