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Opinion

No one has the right to kill another person

Letters

To the editor: I am writing in reference to the syndicated columnist, Froma Harrop, who wrote an article entitled, “Republicans can’t do anything about the abortion issue”, printed in the New Ulm Journal on Nov. 15. On Nov. 22, Katie Dauer from Springfield wrote a rebuttal to that ...

Scams prevail during the holidays

Columns

Dear Heloise: I work for a major credit card company, and every year, we have problems with scammers during the holidays. This year, however, things have gotten much worse. We get calls daily from clients who have made a mistake, handed out personal information or fallen victim to some type of ...

How far would you go for an animal?

Columns

Dear Annie: I have had dogs my whole life and treat them like members of my family. When they are sick, they go to the vet and get the medicine they need. I have spent thousands of dollars on surgeries for my dogs and recently hundreds more on blood tests and evaluations for separate ...

America in decline

Letters

To the editor: We the American people have to wake up. We can’t have Biden have another four-year term. I can’t believe how things have deteriorated in the last two years and 11 months. Biden says he needs another four years to complete what he is going to do in the first four years. He ...

Packaging gets too difficult to open

Columns

Dear Heloise: As we baby boomers become senior citizens, we find ourselves increasingly struggling with packaging of all kinds. I routinely have to get out my X-Acto knife to open products encased in impenetrable, heavy plastic backed by stiff cardboard. Push-and-turn and squeeze-and-turn ...

Can’t control co-worker’s lies

Columns

Dear Annie: I have a co-worker who consistently spreads misinformation in order to get out of doing her job. She often makes up policies that don’t exist to try to trick other departments in our workplace into doing her work (even when that means the work gets done incorrectly by people not ...