Cathy and Ken Haarstad, Minot We as a family are grateful. Very grateful. Our adult daughter with disabilities was hospitalized last summer after she fell ill with diabetes, pneumonia and staph infection. She spent weeks on a ventilator and required lung and other surgeries, an infection ...

Steve Moen, Minot After watching the smoke and mirrors dog and pony show in Bismarck it is obvious that the legislature has no intention of reforming the unfair property tax. No mention was made concerning the unfairness of this tax that severely burdens poor taxpayers while letting many rich ...

Amy Jacobson, Executive Director, Prairie Action ND, Fargo The people of North Dakota deserve better than HCR 3003 – a proposal at the state legislature that would undermine our rights and our civic powers as citizens. This resolution, like last year’s Measure 2, is an attack on our ...

Dan Tyler, Stanley As an oilfield truck driver in the North Central region of North Dakota, I have witnessed recurring and concerning security issues involving airmen assigned to guard nuclear missile silos near Minot. These observations include airmen distracted by personal electronic ...

Vicki Voldal Rosenau, Valley City The scheming in Bismarck to spend public money for private-school tuition should have ground to a halt on Jan. 6. That’s when the release of a new statewide poll confirmed what many folks already knew: By an overwhelming majority, the people of North ...

M L Berg, Minot In the middle of 2024, Senator Hoeven spoke out against ‘radical environmentalism.’ Earlier that year, former Governor Burgum, in a televised interview in connection with a conference, referred to the topic of climate change, as, in effect, a fad. We know climate ...