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...]

By Jason Sethre Publisher Fillmore County Journal jason@fillmorecountyjournal.com Did you see the story reported in the August 16, 2022, issue of the Post-Bulletin about a 65-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man in Rochester, Minn., who wired more than $300,000 of their life savings in an online fraud case?  The police reported that the woman called a phone number that … [Read more...]

I knew it was coming. It was an after-school special. I should have been prepared, but I never was. My young mind had been cast adrift in rough seas and it was easier to don a cloak of panic. “What did you learn in school today?” Mom asked me that every time I came home. Why couldn’t she have asked me what my favorite dinosaur was? That was a lot of pressure. There … [Read more...]

President/CEO Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation Continuing education in a business or profession is critical for growth, but trainings can be difficult to participate in when classes are held far away or are too costly. At Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF) we take pride in hosting a variety of high-quality, low-cost training opportunities close to home … [Read more...]

By David Webb, MD Lanesboro, MN With some Americans increasingly willing to embrace violence as a means of achieving their political ends, others predictably respond with renewed clamoring for firearm regulation. Debate quickly devolves into shouting matches, neither side listening to the other, both sides invoking the US Constitution. “What part of ‘shall not be abridged’ … [Read more...]

By Jason Sethre Publisher Fillmore County Journal jason@fillmorecountyjournal.com Over the past year, we decided we had finally arrived at a point in our lives when we could upgrade from our living room furniture to something we had always wanted. When our children were little, we stopped buying new anything (vehicles or furniture, in particular), because it was going … [Read more...]

“Is God Dead” read a 1966 Time magazine cover.  At the time, many had come to believe that science and religion were at odds since the process of evolution seemed to be more fact than theory.  Moreover, the “evidence” seemed to increasingly confirm evolution as truth.  Afterall, the universe and its lifespan were infinite so, sooner or later, life had to show up somewhere.  … [Read more...]

They discovered the dried remains of a long-dead bird in a keepsake box. That caught my attention. Those weren’t catch-and-release words. A Nebraskan was sharing a tale from the days when covered wagons roamed that state. On the way to meet the Cornhusker and others at a state park, I’d seen a sign advertising an open house for a home for sale. I figured it wasn’t for a sod … [Read more...]