History. Love. Action-packed flight sequences. That is just some of what can be expected from the movie, Red Tails.

The Minnesota Legislature is now considering an important bill that would crack down on cruel and unscrupulous cat and dog breeders.

Such a bill is long overdue.

We have all heard horror stories throughout Minnesota of “puppy mills” where dogs are hideously mistreated – crammed in cages, ill-fed if at all, forced to be outside in all weather, beaten, abused and generally treated like garbage.

The Newsleader has received several letters to the editor lambasting this newspaper for expressing what they term partisan, name-calling articles on the newspaper’s “Opinion Page.” Some of these letters, ironically, use the same name-calling they claim to abhor.

Readers apparently miss the big bold words on the top of the one page where opinion is not only allowed but encouraged – the OPINION Page.