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Letters

Clean out muddy boat landing

To the editor: In 2014 they put a new boat landing in Minnecon Park. The river is at a low point for this time of year. The boat landing is full of mud out past the water edge. When you pull your boat out you have to clean your trailer up. To the Park Department, it is time to clean it out ...

COVID strikes back?

To the editor: We’re living in the age of COVID and the new variant, Delta, is surging. What’s more important for all of us at this point? Is it freedom or our health? Avoiding the vaccine and not wearing a mask or trying to keep our population safe before the virus turns really nasty ...

Thanks for the happy news

To the editor: Much of today’s news is dark: warnings of Russian, Chinese Communist Party, and North Korean harm; wildfires across the globe; the Taliban taking over Afghan cities; concerns about policing in Minneapolis; and so on. Therefore, I am grateful for the photo that brought forth a ...

No sidestepping at CRT talk

To the editor: It is apparent that some who are against critical race theory do not really know what it is. Thus, I was happy to present some of the basics of this theory to the New Ulm Human Rights Commission on June 28. The questions and conversation that took place at this forum were very ...

Only Congress can make laws

To the editor: The CDC cannot make laws! Only Congress can. Wake up, America! Korie Langbehn Lafayette

A thought experiment

To the editor: Let us suppose that there are no schools in your neighborhood, so you decide to start one. You face some decisions. Will your school teach how language works, or embrace the idea that grammar is racist? Will it teach that 2 + 2 are 4, or opt for the view that the idea of ...