My perspective - Put a sock in it

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Published on Thursday, May 28, 2015

By Kate Jackman-Atkinson

The Neepawa Banner

Last week, Neepawa council effectively voted to muzzle themselves. At the May 19 council meeting, they unanimously and without discussion passed a new media relations policy that could be politely described as “restrictive”.

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Right in the centre - Kick them out!

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Published on Thursday, May 28, 2015

By Ken Waddell

The Neepawa Banner

If there’s a lesson coming out of Alberta’s election of an NDP government it is this. People eventually get tired of governments unless those governments can explain their actions to the voters. The 44 year-old PC government in Alberta had gone long past their best before date and could no longer explain their actions to the voters. They had driven off into the political wilderness somewhere and couldn’t understand why people didn’t still support them. Their wandering has been well documented.

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I shot an arrow into the air

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Published on Sunday, May 24, 2015

By Rita Friesen

“I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I know not where”. This line from an American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, has been circling around in my thoughts this week. My reflections had me centering around that actions go out into our universe and we never really know the actual results of what we have done. The words entered and re-entered my consciousness enough that I resorted to searching for a copy of the poem. 

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Faithfully Yours - Not amused; definitely amazed

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Published on Saturday, May 23, 2015

By Neil Strohschein

When they designed the front page for their May 16, 2015 edition, the editors of the Winnipeg Free Press were trying to be funny—and initially, their plans succeeded.

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