John Fenrich Owasso, Oklahoma Reading the Letter to the Editor I found on Google Alerts that was published in the Minot Daily News and submitted by James Maxson, who identified himself as a North Dakota State Senator, was an unexpected pleasure for me as a former publisher of the Minot ...

James Maxson Minot I have made many mistakes in my life, but one of them wasn’t staying in North Dakota after having graduated from UND law school. At age 38, suffering from delusions of adequacy, I ran for the North Dakota State Senate in a Minot District. BNSF engineer Larry ...

Landis Larson West Fargo This week some of the lowest-paid workers in the Midwest will see an increase on their next paycheck, but not here in North Dakota. Montana, Minnesota and South Dakota all have minimum wage laws indexed to inflation meaning when inflation goes up, so does the ...

Bill Brudvik Hillsboro I have been following the current surge in covid infections both in North Dakota and Minnesota and here at our winter home in Phoenix, Arizona. They are all showing record hospitalizations nearly all of which are people who are unvaccinated. The latest data I have ...

Kolette Kramer Towner What in the world are we talking about? Redistricting and Reorganizing?? Well, with the census being taken, the 47 Districts that were established in North Dakota had to be “evenly” dispersed so each district has approximately the same number of people in their ...

John Phillips Beulah Basin Electric Power Cooperative is within its rights to sell its Great Plains Synfuels Plant to Bakken Energy to produce hydrogen, but members of the Coal Conversion Counties Association do not believe the state of North Dakota should provide financial support for ...