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Columnists

No reason for being reserved with funds

During the past week, as Mower County residents were reading or re-reading notices about their proposed 2013 property taxes, county commissioners were talking about ways ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, November 30, 2012 10:33 am

Columnists

Sports fans should not be surprised

While the governor and the Minnesota Vikings wrangle over the team’s need for profitability and the means to achieve it, Minnesotans can at least be ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, November 16, 2012 10:09 am

Columnists

Questions abound after 2012 election

This week’s election could go down in the books as the one where the most effort went into achieving virtually no change. Or it might ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, November 9, 2012 11:22 am

Columnists

Despite drawbacks, nothing for it but to vote

Years ago, when I chided a friend about his lack of knowledge on some election-related topic, he explained that he was actively trying not to ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, November 2, 2012 11:06 am

Austin

Rain doesn’t necessarily mean drought’s end, but it’s still a welcome change

Since some time last fall, the number of days when we’ve had a really hard rain has been few indeed, and it seems like I’ve ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, October 26, 2012 12:51 pm

2012 election

Why all the hoopla over iPhone 5?

For a lot of people, this is a big day: Apple released the iPhone 5. Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, September 21, 2012 10:14 am

Archive

Good old convention days long in the past

My friends and I grew up with four television channels. On dull summer days we laboriously clicked through every stop on the dial, hoping for ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, August 24, 2012 10:47 am

Columns

It would be funny if it weren’t sad

Some of the news we report here at the Herald is tragic, some is humorous. A lot of it, though, falls into the category that ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, August 17, 2012 11:31 am

cooking

Real concern or early sign of becoming crotchety?

Because the family was out of town, I have been cooking whatever I want for supper this week. What I wanted one night, it turned ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:21 am

cell phones

Cell phones don’t equal safety in wilderness

A month or so ago, Minnesota’s Court of Appeals sided with a cell phone company that wants to build a 450-foot transmission tower on the ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, July 27, 2012 10:43 am

Hormel

Spam made us stars of reunion

For many, many months it has been clear that this was going to be the Summer of Spam here in Austin, what with its 75th ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, July 13, 2012 11:31 am

Columnists

Missed out on festival’s water war opportunity

I’m kicking myself because when I read through the Freedom Fest schedule last week I did not notice the plan for fire department water wars ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, July 6, 2012 10:01 am

climate change

Unpleasant heat is on earlier than normal

Woke up thinking about a funny column related to this week’s heat wave, but decided there’s nothing funny about it. Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, June 29, 2012 11:04 am

Technology

MRIs, X-rays should catch up with smart phone tech

They say a typical new cell phone, an iPhone or Android, puts as much computing power in the palm of its owner’s hand as was ... Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, June 22, 2012 11:16 am

Dave Churchill

Exposing the horror and cost of real war

Like many parents, we struggle with our children’s desire to play video games. Read more

by Dave Churchill, Friday, June 15, 2012 11:41 am

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