Opinion
We learned this past week consumer spending in Minnesota has been at a level contributing to yet another projected budget surplus.
Wasting no time, Education Minnesota, the union representing teachers in the state, offered its opinion the state should continue to help fund teachers’ wages at a...
I have a sibling who doesn’t eat anything with pork products in them. Strangely enough, you will find pork products in places sometimes you don’t always think of — one of them being store-bought gelatin.
This sent me on a hunt of how I could make my own gelatin and the results were surprisingly...
Jarrod Schoenecker photo
Myself (left) and my father, Thomas Schoenecker, Sr., at the concert at Orchestra Hall.
I took my father to see a show with U.S. Navy Glee Club Men’s and Women’s Chorus with the Minnesota Orchestra at Orchestra Hall earlier this month. Preceding the show, we sat down in the lobby next to a couple, approximately in their seventies.
Through conversation I find out that the husband was a...
Between Halloween and the 2020 Presidential Election, my family moved from West Virginia to rural Minnesota. It was during the height of the pandemic and my wife had lost her job because of it. She found a new position in Appleton, Minn., and we decided to leave the Appalachian Mountains for the...
Between Halloween and the 2020 Presidential Election, my family moved from West Virginia to rural Minnesota. It was during the height of the pandemic and my wife had lost her job because of it. She found a new position in Appleton, and we decided to leave the Appalachian Mountains for the first...
Jarrod Schoenecker photo
One of the two abandoned kittens taken to a new home for better care and a chance to survive.
Living on a farm, we have some farm cats. Yes, feral cats that come and go as they please. Sometimes they eat and stay at the neighbors. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they fight. Sometimes they like each other.
All of the cats seem to like each other in the winter time, but not always. I am...
Saturday, Nov. 11, is Veterans Day, a time we should especially remember to honor the service of our country’s military veterans, men and women who have given so much so we can enjoy our daily lives in relative ease and comfort.
There are well over 320,000 veterans in Minnesota. More than half of...
Your New Prague Area School District has offered a case voters should approve an additional $450 per student levy for 10 years – not “forever” as Director Dan Call told the board he had been telling constituents back in August.
Call, who told the school board he opposed the levy request, was...
My name is Mike Mallow, and I have joined the staff of the Montgomery Messenger and the LifeEnterprise as a part-time reporter.
I am a West Virginia native and a 22-year veteran of the newspaper industry. My career began in 2001 at my hometown newspaper, The Pendleton Times, in Franklin, W.Va. Even...
I get hundreds of e-mails a day.
The majority of them go right into the trash can.
I don’t think I am unlike others in business, but some of the things I have been sent lately are completely absurd and have absolutely nothing to do with the newspaper business.
Unfortunately, some things I actually...
