After sitting through ORB Management’s review of the proposed community center’s progress I am left with three broad thoughts. Over the many years of sitting too often in the commissioner’s room, the acoustics loom ever larger as a limiting factor of true transparency between government and the public it serves. The little blinking contraptions at each commissioner’s position are little […]

The next big threat to our jobs and way of life has arrived. Several companies have applied for permits to mine metals in Superior National Forest. PolyMet, a subsidiary of multinational mining giant Glencore, is the furthest along in the permitting process. Sulfide mining, the process used to extract non-iron metals from the ore, has a perfect history. Its record […]

The Freethinker magazine is the world’s longest-running atheist journal, and freethinkers strive to build their opinions on the basis of facts. Geri Jensen’s request to the New-Herald to include Freethinker articles in the Spiritual Reflections column is absurd. Atheist do not believe in the supernatural, which is the basis for “spiritual reflections” so how could they possibly contribute a column […]