To the Editor, Thanks to the  Fillmore County Journal for featuring young talented writers in our area.  Thanks also to Leah Himlie, one of these young contributors, for her thoughtful and timely article about the human need for love and compassion.  After reading her article in last week’s Journal, I re-read Flip Huggenveck’s letter.  It got me thinking not so much about … [Read more...]

To the Editor, Jeff Erding has finally presented a worthwhile link to understanding what is wrong with America. The link he provided took me to AmericanExperiment.org. It is a great place to get right wing talking points and help with racist and white supremacy thinking. This is another organization funded by the Bradley Foundation, a part of the Koch Brothers hard right … [Read more...]

To the Editor, Two cobalt blue ceramic planters filled with perennials were stolen from the graves of Darold and Helen Maricle at the Spring Valley Cemetery. We have mixed emotions: • Anger, that someone (who undoubtedly considers themselves Christian) would rob a gravesite; • Pity, for whoever would stoop so low to such an act; • And even a little pride, that … [Read more...]

To the Editor, Our long liberal democracy experiment that seeks to protect the interest of minorities is under assault. Two of Trump’s biggest supporting groups, white supremacists and white conservative evangelical Christians, are groups who seek male domination and would often prefer lesser civil rights not only for females, but also for LGBTQ, non-Christian, and other … [Read more...]

To the Editor, OK, Jeff, you’re absolutely right.  As soon as Trump stole the election, the more thoughtful Democrats started thinking about impeachment. We were horrified that such an insincere, frivolous, unprincipled person could possibly be put in charge of our country for four years.  It is not that the House of Representatives is panicked.  Trump has just finally … [Read more...]

To the Editor, There is a group of people (the Kurds) who have been fighting mightily for years as our allies against ISIS, a barbaric religiously extreme group of people in Syria and Iraq. The ISIS group cuts off American heads and is our terrorist enemy, remember?  On October 6, President Erdogan of Turkey asked President Trump to withdraw several dozen of our soldiers … [Read more...]

To the Editor, This morning’s headlines in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: “U.S. pulls out of Syria, ISIS prisoners go free!” “Mayhem in Syria after American withdrawal,” “Feeling abandoned by the U.S., Kurds join Syrian forces,” “Trust broken, green berets feel ‘ashamed’ for leaving the Kurds.” I wonder how the right wing-nut contributors to the Fillmore County Journal … [Read more...]

To the Editor, I attended a Representative Hagedorn Town Hall meeting in Winona in early September. I’ve been haunted ever since by his response to a citizen who was asking if he was aware of the relationship between gun ownership and suicide. Mr. Hagedorn’s response was that he believed that “people who commit suicide go to hell.” Why I’m haunted by that response is that as … [Read more...]

To the Editor, Independent scientists (the few who are not controlled by Government funding) cannot prove man causes global warming, cooling or whatever. So, I wonder, did the dinosaurs cause their extinction? If the millions and millions who believe fossil fuels are causing global warming would park their cars (gas and electric, since electric has a bigger carbon footprint … [Read more...]

To the Editor, Recently Donald Trump’s appointed Agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, joked about how farmers are whiners. It amazes me that the man in charge of agriculture in this administration is so callous given what he surely knows is happening in farm country. U.S. agriculture bankruptcy filings are at 10-year highs, U.S. farm income in 2019 will remain near lows not … [Read more...]