Kathy Martin, Valley City This month is Plastics-Free July, an event initiated in western Australia in 2011. The aim is to find creative and effective ways to drastically cut back our dependence on plastic. As we prepare to vote for local, state and federal offices in November we need to ...

Wendy Weiss Voeller, Minot My name is Wendy K. Weiss Voeller, living in the Artspace Building downtown Minot. I felt moved to write this following our removal from the Artspace building on Monday June 24. There was evidence found by our Building Manager, Rose Hystad, and the Fire Dept ...

Gary Schell, Minot All new houses in Minot, Burlington and Surrey are 3,000 sq. ft. and priced well above $250,000. Some people are looking for affordable housing. Like 1,000 to 1,300 sq ft. Two bedrooms, two baths and two car garage. Or some new condos with an elevator, 3 or 4 stories ...

Steven Moen, Minot The Unfair End Property Tax Group turned in 40,592 signatures to the Secretary of State Office to put End Unfair Property Tax on the ballot this fall. This is over 9,000 signatures more than were required. This is amazing as 85% of the signatures were gathered by ...

Leon Mallberg Dickinson There‘s a claim that we have a two-tiered legal system, one for the elites, ruling class and some politicians and another for the rest of us. Lo and behold, this can be said of North Dakota. In Richland County the Water Board Secretary had a warrant out for her ...

Gary Schell Stanley This is my first ever “letter to the editor.” I’ve coached Boys Golf (7-12), Football (7-8), Girls and Boys Track (7-8), Boys and Girls Basketball (7-12) at various times for 37 years. My concern is the lack of a secondary plan when weather becomes a main factor at ...