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What do symbols mean to different people? Take for instance the Confederate flag. White supremacists insist it's a symbol of state's rights and defiance against your government. But when you look at a Confederate flag, you should really see the lacerated back of a defenseless slave...

I applaud Minnesota's Environmental Quality Board for responding to the petition of Honor the Earth by requesting further environmental review of the proposed Nemadji Trail Energy Center ("PUC holds hearings on natural gas plant," Superior Telegram, Oct. 19). The concerns of indigenous...

What is the value of a family? Is that different than having family values?

In response to a recent editorial by State Senator Janet Bewley, "Legislating the way it ought to be," Sen. Bewley appears to present herself as bipartisan. A look at her voting record indicates she is anything but bipartisan. From Jan. 1, 2017 to Feb. 20 of this year, Sen. Bewley...

Donald Trump proposes to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and giant corporations by cutting programs for the poor, the elderly and quality of life for all. Medicare funding is cut $266 billion, Medicaid $1.1 trillion, Social Security $72 billion over 10 years; food stamps reduced,...

I have written pieces about the futility of war before, and I was pleased to see, "A Canadian's view" in the June 8 issue of the Duluth News Tribune. He ended his piece with words spoken by President Franklin Roosevelt, my first American president whom I remember fondly, when he...

No doubt, I'll take a beating over this letter, but so be it. Another horrible school shooting — more dead children — another round of political viewpoints obliterating the "how" and "why" it happened. Like the mob in the original "Frankenstein" movie back in the 1930s,...

It doesn't happen often enough at the State Capitol, but it did last week. For at least one bill, on one day, the legislative process worked the way it is supposed to, the way that fourth-graders across the state are told it works when they study Wisconsin government. That's good...

As a resident of Douglas County for my entire life, much of it in Superior, I can say for a fact that opportunities like this do not come around every day. In fact, the Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) will be the largest private investment in the history of Douglas County and...

Once again we have witnessed the heartbreaking and senseless loss of lives by an angry, sick person with a gun. As the rest of us share the pain of the families and victims in Florida, we can't even begin to fathom the depth of loss they feel. Seventeen individuals, loved by family...

The Superior Federation of Labor Committee on Political Education met Feb. 7 to screen local candidates about the offices they hope to hold after the April 3 election. Candidates were asked questions specifically about the offices they are running for.

" ... perhaps our most essential freedom is the ability to participate in government." — Alex Marshall We are free to govern ourselves. Our founders realized we didn't need a king, emperor, or strong man to rule over us; therefore, all citizens have a responsibility to actively...

Why, when we get to a certain age, do young people get disgusted when we do the thing we did before they were born — hold hands? It is publicly accepted for the young ones to hold hands, hold the other by the waist. Accept the fact, the reason you're here is because hands were...

To those who may support a burgeoning dictatorship, a fascist administration that promotes hate by labeling Nazis our parents, grandparents or great-grandparents died fighting as "fine people" and hypocritically caters to those who would turn our secular democracy into a theocracy...