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Blessed to work for Minot Public School

After 22 years in the Minot School District, it’s time to retire! I have been blessed to work for Minot Public Schools since 2002 as an Assistant Principal and Principal at Magic City Campus and Superintendent of Schools for both districts since 2011. My years at Magic City Campus were very ...

Keep supporting LGBTQ+ community after Pride

Throughout the summer, North Dakotans are celebrating Pride in communities like Minot across the state. The festivals are the shared celebration of resilience and LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit joy. Everything is washed in cheery rainbow flags and fun! That festive atmosphere is customary for Pride ...

Radicals torching ND election laws

With a bizarre collection of proposals to upset the North Dakota election system, a band of outliers are now carrying petitions across the state to put a catch-all constitutional amendment on the November ballot. The amendment has neither coherence nor common sense for the professionals who ...

ND falls short of common good

Common good are those things that emphasizes community as compared to individual good, which emphasizes self. Every level of civic society – national, state and local – needs common good to negotiate and provide the services to everyone in its jurisdiction. The national government must ...

Can’t figure that much money

“I just heard at Glover’s Bar that them guys in Bismarck are finally thinking of using that $10,000,000,000 pile of fracking and gas money molding away in the state treasury,” Madeleine Morgan said with authority as she entered the ZCBJ hall for a special meeting of the Homeland Security ...

Seismic shift happening in ND politics

A seismic shift is taking place in the North Dakota party convention nominating system with the fragmentation of power and resources and candidates bypassing the structured nominating system and going directly to the polls. While North Dakota history is full of erratic appeals to primary ...