Morris Sun Tribune

Although the 2013 road construction season hasn’t started yet, the city of Morris is already looking forward to 2014.   On Tuesday, at a meeting conducted in front of students at Morris Area High School, the Morris City Council established the 2014 road project –...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. – Motorists on Highway 59 between Interstate 94 and Elbow Lake will encounter a detour and possible delays when a road resurfacing project begins May 20, weather permitting.   During the project Highway 59 will close, and motorists will use a...

ST. PAUL -- Well, this has been our final week of the legislative session. Since January, we have been working to make sure we balance the budget and invest in the things that Minnesotans value the most.  We’re paying off the $627 million budget deficit that was left over...

ST. PAUL – Minnesota senators took nearly 17 hours to approve a bill allowing childcare providers and personal care attendants to unionize. The bill passed 35-32 a little after 8 a.m. today after senators debated it continuously since Tuesday afternoon. “Republicans stalled...

 ST. PAUL -- Love and marriage soon will go together for Minnesota gays like they do for straight couples. “Vote yes for love,” Minnesota Sen. Scott Dibble told his colleagues Monday. Enough senators agreed and gave the Minneapolis Democrat his wish of a Minnesota that...

We are approaching the final week of the legislative session in St. Paul. This year session is scheduled to adjourn Monday, May 20. Now that the Senate and House have passed their various budget bills, the final week will be filled with a flurry of conference committees to...

MORRIS – Single-sort recycling will be coming to Stevens County as early as this summer. On Tuesday, the Stevens County Board of Commissioners voted to raise the county solid waste service fee, a yearly charge collected on property tax statements, to help pay for the initial...

ST. PAUL -- As you may know, the Minnesota House of Representatives took up a bill to allow same-sex civil marriage this past week. The bill doesn’t force any church to perform marriages that go against their religious beliefs. It simply allows the state to recognize the civil marriages...

When you are asked to donate for a Buddy Poppy during the upcoming campaign in this community, do it with a big smile on your face. Remember that it is the most grateful investment of your money you can ever make! Members of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars...

Let me start off by saying I do not support same sex marriage. If you do, that's a debate for another day.   My problem is with how Jay arrived at his decision to vote for it. Jay said in his statement that "I didn’t want my opinion to be the only one that mattered. The...

One of the more disappointing aspects to the State House of Legislature’s passage of a bill changing the legal definition of marriage to include same sex couples is that one of the representatives voting for the bill was our own representative, Jay McNamar. What made his vote for...