Standardized testing doesn’t help kids learn

The Taylor County Board, through its standing oversight committees, needs to continue to have a role in the hiring of key employee leadership positions within county departments. Over recent years, Taylor County has been working toward implementing a more structured and streamlined leadership process with the goal of creating a more professional and uniform approach toward personnel management,...

Who’s to judge? This spring we saw the most expensive state supreme court race in history. On April 7th, we’ll vote again, and I’m not looking forward to another flood of dark-money attack ads. Chris Taylor, a liberal, and Maria Lazar, a conservative, are on the ballot—yet most voters know little about either. So how do we choose? I start by asking: What are their values? What does t...

When President Trump labeled Somali immigrants “garbage,” he was weaponizing presidential power to diminish an entire community. As novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned in her powerful TED Talk “The Danger of a Single Story,” power lies not only in the ability to tell another person’s story, but to make it the definitive story of that person. Yes, some Somali Americans in Minnesot...