Opinion

My two cents | Sixty-four trips By Mike Alan Steinfeldt

News Staff

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Every once in a while, I like to look back in time to see what happened in the past week in history.Having just completed my sixtyfourth trip around the Sun on September 23, 2025, I figure that I am just about old enough to become an historical figure.

This, that, and other stuff by Bob Simmons

News Staff

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

On Charlie Kirk…So I ‘almost’ signed to carry conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on our KXPO AM/FM at Grafton a few years back to balance liberal commentator Joel Heitkamp who holds court in the morning on our stations, but instead signed to carry Fox talking head Jimmy Fallia.Why?

Valley News & Views

Guest column

News Staff

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Ignoring the Robinson-Patman Act is killing rural grocery stores and communitiesIn the heart of America, small towns are dying not from lack of will or work ethic, but from the steady erosion of their economic foundations.

My family after gathering for a meal at my favorite childhood eatery - The Hu Ke Lau in Chicopee, Mass.

Pass the Tums by Bob Simmons

News Staff

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

One of my favorite restaurants growing up back east was The Hu Ke Lau in Chicopee, Mass.The restaurant was known far and wide for its great Polynesian food. My favorite item on the menu was the Pu Pu Platter.

My two cents | Is it too late for us? By Mike Alan Steinfeldt

News Staff

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

“ Nobody should die for speaking their mind, but…” That phrase should be stricken from all human thought, but how many times have you heard that since the murder of Charlie Kirk last week at a college gathering in Utah?

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Letters to the Editor

News Staff

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Happy National Voter Registration Day!Organizations across the country are registering voters in their communities on September 16, 2025... except in North Dakota.

Along the way

Christine Jensen

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

|Sometimes along the way, we are confronted with disappointments and setbacks. In the course of traveling through those antagonists of time and energy, we find peace and solitude in the quiet of life’s restorative tapestry.There were a few days last week I was feeling extremely low.

Christians standing in one accord are a silhouette of the Spirit-filled church. Photo by John Shafer

Prism of prose

One Accord By Clint Van Camp

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

What does a Spirit-filled Church look like? We may conclude it is a church which retains the principles of the first century church. The early church in the Book of Acts was one of robust growth. It was a Spiritfi lled church. A.

From the pastor’s desk

Pastor Leroy Aufenkamp

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

While debating the fate of Jesus’ apostles in Acts 5:34-39, “a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law” reminded his fellow Pharisees of two men who had attracted a large following of like-minded people – Theudas and Judas. Both men were slain, and the movements they led soon dissipated.

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I need

News Staff

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Inspired by Gwen Berge. AFLC Board of Publications and Parish Education, Ramsey MN Written by Andrea Johnston What is on your list of “needs?” Most of us are so blessed. We have food and shelter and creature comforts.But what do we really need?First and foremost, our greatest need is God Himself.

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