To the editor: “What can I do?” is a common response to the increasing violence we have seen in both our state and nation recently. Like many, I have been reflecting and praying on how to be a positive force for change. As a famous quote suggests, the only way to save the world is one ...

To the editor: In a glaring example of how “transparently” the Trump Department of Justice goes about its nefarious missions of retribution at the behests of the President, special prosecutor Jack Smith has been subpoenaed by Republican Jim Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee to ...

To the editor: I’ve been trying for a year to catch the attention of First District Congressman Brad Finstad.  I’ve called all of his district offices, leaving voice messages and messages with his phone answerers.  Ditto for his Washington DC office. Twice I have been hung up on.  ...

To the editor: Pete Hegseth, like so many of Trump’s nominees for top government posts, was and is wholly unqualified for the job for which he’s been entrusted. The red flags, sent up by his own mother and chronicled by his immature displays of public drunkenness, weren’t enough to sway ...

To the editor: During my 24 years on active duty, I was stationed on ships that were directly involved in Drug Interdiction Operations. We searched, seized, arrested and commandeered. We did not summarily execute. Now Trump is ordering these vessels to be destroyed. This is extra judicial ...

To the editor: In the depths of the Great Depression, a real President and leader, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, calmly looked to soothe the minds of the populace with his “fireside chats.” ... Of course, such sane speech would run afoul of the current president’s inflammatory ...