Winona County will not cut funding for local libraries, the County Board decided in a 3-2 vote on Tuesday night. A $76,700 reduction to county funding for the Winona, St. Charles, and La Crescent ...

Members of Congress aren’t elected to represent political parties, lobbyists, or the loudest voices on social media. They are elected to represent the people who put them in office.

Simply put, our taxes don’t cover all the things a community needs to thrive. Rather than viewing the capital needs as solely a municipal responsibility, this may be an opportunity to explore how ...

Over the last two years, several local school districts have reduced their number of administrators as they deal with declining enrollment, tightening budgets and difficult cuts. In past years, some ...

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The Arcadia School District is considering whether to hold a facilities referendum asking voters to approve additional funding to upgrade buildings. School Board members have discussed a possible ...

Housing stability is often described as a ladder. It works like this. A place to stay allows you to get your new insurance card mailed to you after it was lost when you became homeless. That insurance ...

I fully support a permanent shelter at St. Paul’s. Neighborhood residents as well as the shelter’s residents will be safer if there is overnight housing for those in need instead of leaving them to ...

There are many more streets that need work as well.

A few years back, we made a moral decision to fell a beloved tree. It was the right choice even though it was sad. It ...

The cost of the currently proposed public safety building for the city of Winona would lock our community into unsafe levels of debt for several decades. Other Minnesota communities, such as Rosemount ...

The World’s Largest Rubber Duck welcomed visitors to the Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) last weekend as the museum ...