Verlyn “Pokey” Pockrandt

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” In 1914, that inscription was placed on the James A. Farley Post Office building in Manhattan. For decades it has been the unofficial motto of the Postal Service. It evokes the high ideals that many in the Postal Service still hold dear and strive to maintain. The...

A proposal to change the city’s snowmobile ordinances and eliminate restrictions on hours of operation makes sense and will bring the city into alignment with state rules over snowmobile operations on trails. In scaling back restrictions on snowmobile users, city council members must accept the truth in the phrase “no good deed goes unpunished” and aware of the risk of unintended conseque...