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Between 1948 and 2011 the United States gave Egypt 71.6 billion dollars in bilateral military and economic aid. Our Senate last August passed a new bill that will give 38 billion dollars in military aid to Israel over the next ten years. For decades we have averaged giving Israel...

Some of us are old enough to remember the television game show with that name - I've got a secret. In Minnesota, today our state government - specifically the secretary of state - is playing his own version of that show with information that has been deemed as public information....

As I write my final article as your Mayor, I feel blessed to have been able to share these past two years with you. It was a great experience. And, I learned a lot, met new friends and saw many projects completed including an update of our city's Comprehensive Plan. The council also...

There're only a few days left in 2018. If you were writing a novel or a screenplay and you included the drama and events of this past year, do you think anyone would take it seriously? These two sentences were written on Dec. 13 to try and get my brain started in forming my final...