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JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — Dn’t Rspnd To Thse Txts!

It started last weekend. I began receiving weird text messages from unknown phone numbers outside the 701 area code. I didn’t think about it much the first time, but then they kept on coming, sometimes three a day. I ignored them, like I had been told to when I got my first cellphone. By the way, I remember my very …


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TOM DAVIES: The Verdict — Let’s Toughen Liquor And Driving Violation Laws

Anyone who knows me has probably been wondering when I would get around to some legal topics. Their wait is over. Our communities have a Safe Community Coalition. Part of its function is to monitor licensed liquor establishments for sales to minors and other violations. They release the results to the media on a regular basis. Fines are supposedly imposed …


NANCY EDMONDS HANSON: After Thought — Smartphone, Dumb Driving

Ah, spring — when a young man’s fancy turns to … cruising. Roll the windows down, turn the tunes up and step on the gas. Or a young woman’s, for that matter. It’s the “young” part that counts. Whether that’s true for you in real time or merely a distant memory, there’s something about driving on these long early summer …