It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the “Community News & Small Business Support Act,” that has been introduced in Congress would offer relief to both newspapers and local businesses. For too many newspapers, help ...
Part of me feels like Jason Aldean has already gotten enough attention for his song, “Try That In A Small Town,” which details how small-town vigilantes will shoot you for any number of infractions up to and including cussing at a cop or burning the flag. But another, pushier part of me ...
Central planning, never out of fashion on the left, is now more popular than ever on the right thanks to the GOP’s populist takeover. This is why a recurring effort to intervene in the credit-card processing market is finding more support in the new Congress than it did in the previous ...
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who ...
Sometimes we’re so focused on where we’re headed, we forget how far we’ve come. This week has been such a week. I’m waiting to hear back on an opportunity I’ve applied for and planning projects and growth with my boss. My eyes are on the future. Social media can be a toxic rabbit ...
Edana Kitzmann, Minot On June 10, 2023, there was a statement made that 85% of budget money (I believe from property taxes) goes for emergency services, such as law enforcement, etc. Where will that 85%, dollars, come from (if not from property taxes) to cover the line item of emergency ...