It’s difficult to flip television channels these days without coming across sports – either live contests, rebroadcasts, talk shows or a heavy flow of highlights. Famous athletes and former athletes are pitch-men in commercials for countless products. The money in sports is copious. All ...

Reading the biographies of the latest Golden Award recipients might cause one to assume the winners came from major centers of learning, not our own Minot State University. But that is so. The Minot State Alumni Association will honor four people with the award Thursday, and their ...

In a Sept. 25 readers poll in Minot Daily News, the majority of respondents answered “No” to the question “Do you approve of the budget just approved by the Minot City Council?” Two caveats should be kept in mind. One is that our reader polls are not scientific. Instead, they are a ...

Officials in Saudi Arabia have said damage from an attack on oil production facilities last weekend is being repaired quickly. By mid-week last week, about half the production capacity affected had been restored. Still, the interruption in exports from the oil-rich kingdom ought to serve as ...

Clearly, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi smells blood in the water. Otherwise, she would not have launched an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. The question now is whether House Democrats circling to take a political bite out of Trump will attempt to ignore a ...

The budget approved by the Minot City Council, which includes a minor reduction in property taxes to be paid to the city, is welcome news. This budget follows two years of tax increases, including a sizable one last year from which some are still reeling and which continues to be the impetus ...