Andrew Alexis Varvel Bismarck By every appearance, the pretended caliphate of the Taliban is ginning up a casus belli for war against the United States. Their apparent strategy is to starve millions of Afghans to death so they can then blame the United States for the starvation that the ...

Mark Kraft Deering Unbelievable, how can this keep happening? How can someone be so inhumane to let animals in his cave die of starvation? (We all know how horrible it is to die that way) and how could the neighbors not notice? All it would take is a phone call! And the penalties in ND ...

Dan Reinhard Minot She has long ago passed on, but I remember when my sixth grade teacher Mrs. Clark, caught me running in the hallway where I cut in front of other children in the cafeteria lunch line. She grabbed my shoulder and said: “Danny, report back to the classroom after ...

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 ...