Articles from the November 23, 2023 edition


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  • Thanksgiving costs up significantly from a year ago

    Randy Olson|Nov 23, 2023

    Economic news has progressively gotten worse over the past three years. What's most difficult at the present time is that hope and relief just do not seem to be on the horizon with interest rates as high as they are now and personal / family debt growing to extraordinary levels. Since January of 2021, just getting by in the United States has gotten tougher and tougher. The latest news on Thanksgiving dinner costs is just one more kick in the gut. Here's a summary of price increases in the past...

  • B-B-E football season ends in state semifinals (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Nov 23, 2023

    One of the longest winning streaks on the gridiron this fall in Minnesota came to a crashing end on Saturday, November 18 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The No. 5-ranked Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa football team suffered a 63-6 loss to the top-ranked Minneota Vikings in the Class 1A state semifinals. B-B-E trailed 14-0 after the first quarter, but the Vikings put up a 35-point outburst in the second quarter. The Jaguars, who won 11 straight games coming into the state semis, trailed 49-6 at ha...

  • Parents: stop raising morons! (VIDEO)

    Randy Olson|Nov 23, 2023

    I weep for humanity. Parents!!! Would you be so kind as to stop raising complete morons for children. Case in point: the group of idiotic, whiny, petulant little snobs who glued themselves to the pavement along the route of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade on November 23 in New York City. Altogether, a total of 34 of these little brats were arrested by law enforcement personnel. You can bet they will not be properly punished and will not learn their lesson and will continue to live an...

  • Brooten Buccaneers 1973 football reunion

    Randy Olson|Nov 23, 2023

    The Brooten Buccaneers 1973 football team will hold a 50th anniversary reunion of their special football season in which they went 9-0 that fall. This will take place on Saturday, December 2 at Lucky Shots Bowling Alley in Brooten from 2 to 6 p.m. The Buccaneers were led by fourth-year head coach Don Larson that fall. They returned a strong nucleus of players from the 1972's squad that finished 2-7. In the final Class C state rankings, which were determined by a computer, Brooten was ranked No....

  • SO, is there a bigger clown than Kamala Harris?

    Randy Olson|Nov 23, 2023

    Kamala Harris continues to prove she is one of the biggest clowns in Washington, D.C. There was no bigger proof of that than the latest stunt she pulled off on Thanksgiving. For a Thanksgiving Day post on her official Vice President of the United States Twitter account, Harris posted what was a genuinely warm-hearted picture of her with her husband in their kitchen. They happened to be standing next to a gas stove. They wag their fingers at Americans who have gas stoves...yet there's one sitting...

  • Young cast shines in B-B-E fall musical 'The Addams Family - School Edition'

    Randy Olson|Nov 23, 2023

    The youngest and most inexperienced cast that Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa has had in school history for a fall musical shine with strong performances across three straight days on November 17, 18 and 19 at Olson Auditorium. Overall, paid attendance surpassed 500 for all three shows. Tia Nelson, a junior, played Morticia Addams alongside fellow junior Coby DenHartog, who played Gomez. Savannah Finken, another junior, played the role of Wednesday Addams. The role of Pugsley was played by junior Kora...