November 2022

ST. PAUL, MN—A recent study found that more than 1.3 million Americans with diabetes rationed their insulin because of cost concerns by skipping doses, taking less insulin than needed, or delaying buying insulin to save money.

EAGAN, Minn. – The Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation (MFBF) Board of Directors recently set its 2023 legislative session priority issues at the conclusion of the organization’s 104th Annual Meeting. The issues are established from Farm Bureau grassroots policy set by MFBF members based on current events impacting agriculture and rural Minnesota.

Maybe we need the quiet holidays as much we need the over-the-top holidays. We live in a culture of excess, as the coming of the commercial version of Christmas hasalready been reminding usfor weeks. But the days of reflection on Memorial Day, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving–even with a somber note or two –are welcome. Countercultural though it is, it’s often best to give explicit thanks for simply having enough. The very idea of “enough” gets too little attention.I worry right along with so many others that the commercial and cultural mandate to skip straight from Halloween to the frantic dash to Christmas threatens to shove Thanksgivingaside.After all, what is there to sell at Thanksgiving but turkey and boxes of stuffing?But that’s the point. Thanksgiving amped up like the Fourth of Julyor Commercial Christmaswould contradict the spirit of the whole thing. We cling to a lot of needless myths. Colonists and the Wampanoag invented Thanksgivingout of thin air 401 years ago. No, they didn’t. It symbolized harmonious relations between cultures in clash. That’s a cruel misreading of a painful history. I could go on.Let’s go at it this way: As with so many things, what matters is cherishing and keeping what’s essential about the holiday whilecontinuing to remake it, as we have done again and again over the centuries. Commented [KZ1]: Do you mean to have Thanksgiving at the end of this sentence?

DNR webinars cover state parks and northern pike, registration open for winter topics The DNR invites people interested in fishing, wildlife and outdoor skills to tune in to upcoming webinars that will discuss outdoor opportunities at Minnesota state parks and fishing for northern pike.