Right-to-repair is necessary for businesses, farmers, consumers

The partisan primary elections are less than a month away, do you know who you are voting for? Candidates have been busy over the last few months attending dairy breakfasts, park concerts, party events, parades and anywhere else they can find potential voters to try and sway to support them. This year’s election season is even more busy than normal with wide open races for the 7th Congression...

Putting out a community newspaper is a lot like running a relay race. It starts each week, with the staff at putting in long hours covering meetings, sports and events and sitting down with residents and business owners to help share their stories. Staff then take those stories and photographs and lay out the pages. They are human beings, not computer algorithms, making choices about what...

Bad politics has killed, at least for now, a decades-old conservation program that enjoyed broad bipartisan support. Due to toxic political wrangling and lack of legislative leadership, the legislature failed to reauthorize funding for the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund. Funding ran out as of June 30 and the program came to an end. The Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program — named for conser...