• Tax education shouldn’t end with Tax Day

    April means Tax Day, a yearly reminder that most people don’t like our tax code. As a recent Tax Foundation poll found, people don’t understand it either. With a looming tax battle on Capitol Hill, the need for tax policy education has never been higher. We shouldn’t let tax education end with Tax Day. ​ The public […]

  • Weather Drawing: Happy Arbor Day!

    Attention teachers: Don't forget to submit your students' weather drawing to the Brainerd Dispatch, P.O. Box 974, Brainerd, MN, 56401.

  • Ron Howard Did ‘Happy Days’ to Avoid the Draft

    Opie had a lousy draft number and only one way out

  • 22 Movie Endings That Would Be Better If They Weren’t So Happy

    ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ didn’t need that last shot of Bruce

  • Will Wood: Our teachers deserve better than a tax credit

    We seem to tacitly accept that we will never give teachers the funding they need to do the job we want them to do, so instead we are going to try to make buying school supplies a little more palatable to them.

  • Will Wood: Our teachers deserve better than a tax credit

    We seem to tacitly accept that we will never give teachers the funding they need to do the job we want them to do, so instead we are going to try to make buying school supplies a little more palatable to them.

  • Packers 2024 NFL Draft: Final thoughts before Day 1

    Well, we've finally made it. The first day of the 2024 NFL draft has

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    Co-op Live was just days from opening, then it all went wrong

    Special Report: A three-hundred-million pound landmark project for Manchester, set for a high profile launch gig. Then the test event took place The M.E.N. tells the inside story of how the countdown to 'showtime' dramatically stalled.

  • A Taxing Timeat Tax Time

    Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...

  • A Taxing Timeat Tax Time

    Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise taxes even more without proposing a single dollar be cut to reduce our unsustainable $34 trillion debt. ...

  • Michael Imperioli thought he’d be fired on first day of The Sopranos

    Michael Imperioli, who played Tony's troubled but ultimately loveable nephew Christopher Moltisanti, thought he'd be fired on his first day of filming on The Sopranos, widely considered one of the best TV series of all time. Imperioli lied about being able to drive - kinda crucial considering he was playing Tony's driver - and in his first scene, managed to smash up a Lexus. Continue reading Michael Imperioli thought he’d be fired on first day of The Sopranos ...

  • Canucks vs. Predators Game Day Update: Thatcher Demko 'day-to-day' with injury

    The starter took treatment after Game 1 and didn't practise Monday. Tocchet said the injury is not related to the March 9 knee ailment. A report said Demko had an MRI knee scan Monday.