James Weller’s recent fact-free Commentary is a sterling example of what’s happened to national and now local politics in the Age of Trump. Mr. Weller repeats false conspiracy theories to raise ...

Three generations of McCaa men: Jim McCaa on the left, Johnnie McCaa on the right and contributing columnist John McCaa in the middle. Michael Hogue There is a difference between “father” the verb and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

I’m here to serve you, the people of Carver County. I think the best part of Carver County is the people – our 109,000 residents, the 750 county staff, the business owners, civic leaders, taxpayers, ...

There’s a pretty good rule in life regarding politics: Don’t be like California. This might seem flippant, but the mountain of self-contradictory policymaking has grown so jagged that it’s impossible ...

When our children see the news right now, what are they thinking? We are at a moment where adults everywhere are reminded once again that we must all continue to strive to be the examples we want our ...

The synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church took a big step in Rome this week, as the instrumentum laboris (working document) for the October synod was released. Yet it may well be that the ...