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Are you ready? It’s time to give serious thought to who will represent us over the next term. There are four City Council seats, three School Board seats, Goodhue County sheriff and a state representative from District 20-A to be decided.

There’s an old saying in business and government: Show me your budget, and I’ll show you your priorities.

There’s an old saying in business and government: Show me your budget, and I’ll show you your priorities.

There’s an old saying in business and government: Show me your budget, and I’ll show you your priorities.

There’s an old saying in business and government: Show me your budget, and I’ll show you your priorities.

People expect their elected officials to put aside their differences and do their jobs — fixing things, planning for the future, and listening respectfully to their constituents and each other.

People expect their elected officials to put aside their differences and do their jobs — fixing things, planning for the future, and listening respectfully to their constituents and each other.

Agree with it or not, the “Recall City Hall” campaign to engage all seven Red With City Council members in a special election is grassroots democracy in action. Regardless of how the recall turns out, I think it’s healthy. Citizens are getting more involved and interested in how our city is run, and democracy thrives on participation.

Red Wing is set to receive roughly $1.8 million from the federal economic stimulus bill. So what should we do with it? I think we ought to invest in revitalizing our downtown, sending some love to Old West Main, and making it much easier and less expensive for new businesses and developers to get projects going and help build our community.

With COVID and so much else going on, it takes a lot to get people any more worked up and worried than they already are. But I’m really getting an earful about the City Council’s decision to fire our now former police chief, Roger Pohlman.