Dec 20, 2020
Doug Erickson and his wife Sue of Mankato Township are down to one jar of pennies â a narrow-topped bottle that they decided would take too much work to dig the coins out.
Doug and Sue Erickson needed the help of a younger friend and his commercial vehicle to deliver the pennies theyâd been collecting for nearly 42 years to a local hunger-relief effort. They dropped off their contribution Dec. 11 at the Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union branch in Mankato. Affinity employees Morgan Wuebker, right, and Kole Herrick, assisted in moving the 42,878 pennies into the credit union.Lee Bohrer
MANKATO â In a year of disease, economic recession and growing hunger, Doug and Sue Erickson of Mankato Township didnât make the biggest charitable donation to those in need.
There are several lessons that could be applied to a modern war with China today.
Key point: There are three important take away from that costly, but effective, campaign. Here is how America won and would win again.
This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. The battle is one of seven naval engagements that together with hard-ground fighting on the part of the U.S. Marines and Army make up a six-month bloodletting known to history as Guadalcanal. It’s a struggle replete with insights into martial strategy and operations.
There are three big ideas that come out of studying the Solomon Islands campaign. First of all, the physical setting may impel strategic and operational deliberations. The Solomon Islands is a chute of an island chain. Guadalcanal constitutes its southeastern terminus, while the Japanese fortress at Rabaul lay just beyond its northwestern terminus in yesteryear. The Solomons commands little intrinsic value apart from
Ken Plum: A Green New Deal
Published Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, 10:08 am
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In accepting the Democratic nomination for president, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised a “new deal” for the “forgotten man.” In the midst of the Great Depression the country responded to Roosevelt’s promise by electing him president four times. The ensuing legislation in the first hundred days of his administration and throughout the subsequent years as president produced a new deal that transformed the government from a laissez-faire approach to a broader role of government in the economy.
Forum, Dec. 19: City Council ignored concerns about taxes
Published: 12/18/2020 10:00:31 PM
Modified: 12/18/2020 10:00:19 PM
City Council ignored concerns about taxes
After attending and participating in the Dec. 16 Lebanon City Council meeting to approve the 2021 budget, it has become abundantly clear that our elected officials subscribe to the “let them eat cake” credo (“Council approves annual budget,” Dec. 18).
After several members of our newly formed group, Citizens for Sustainable Taxes, presented our thoughtful perspective on the city’s budget and its impact on retirees and stressed families, we were desperately hoping that reason would prevail. Unfortunately, it did not. We submitted a petition with more than 230 signatures proposing a reduction in the tax rate by 20% over a five-year period. It crashed and burned. Should our current elected officials attempt to say they are “aware of the problems” or are “sympathetic” to the current tax burden plac
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