By Yvonne Nyenhuis Lanesboro, MN Recently I received an advertisement from a candidate who is running for government office. He proclaimed in bold letters that he is “Pro-Gun”!   I felt suddenly cold  as a chill came over me. Our country  has more guns than people! It has not made us safer!  Doctors in hospitals are overwhelmed treating patients with gun wounds.  The drama … [Read more...]

To the Editor, Maybe, if your household makes over $400,000 annually and you don’t pay the taxes you owe on that comfortable income. The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provides $80 billion over a decade for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The funding will allow the IRS to bring the agency’s technology into the 21st Century and hire replacements for … [Read more...]

To the Editor, Trump stole top secret documents and lied about it. This criminal act involved thousands of stolen records. There were 46 empty folders that had contained classified documents. These are not the actions of a decent sane person. Were the missing papers lost, destroyed, hidden, or sold? Now he vilifies the FBI and DOJ. On the day of the violent coup attempt, … [Read more...]

Opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of the Fillmore County Journal. The fundamental questions:  1) Why were U.S. forces in Syria?  2) What was their job?   They were there to fight ISIS.  That’s why they were there.  That’s it.  They were not there to get in the middle of ancient and ongoing contest between the Kurds and Turkey even though the Kurds … [Read more...]