I will not be running for governor, or any other public office, this year of 2024. I have carefully considered this option. I’m reasonably sure that I could do a very good job serving as our state’s governor, and have fun doing it. With mounting dissatisfaction with North Dakota’s ...

It seems that we go through the same liturgy every two years requiring us to believe in the democratic process. As the candidates orate, our hopes of change are magnified until our expectations outrun their performance. To restrain our disgust, we need to take a realistic look at the nature ...

The issue of homeless students in North Dakota has come to the fore in the last couple of weeks. Homeless in North Dakota? Even though a variety of public and private entities offer services, kids are still falling in the cracks. We shouldn’t be surprised because a global look at our ...

Writing in FOCUS, a Pew publication, Dr. Thomas Insel, former director of National Institute of Mental Health, says that “feelings of anxiety and depression have grown to levels where virtually no one can ignore what is happening.” He noted that a recent CNN/Kaiser Family Foundation poll ...

January finds me marking another notch in the time belt, meaning that someone needs to tell the following generation about the hazards of living up where the air is thin. Most old people don’t want to admit that they have become the antiques in the museum of life. In fact, you can actually ...

As we sit on the fringe of hate and fear, 2024 promises to be the test of our grit. In fact, the future is so grim that you may want to consider getting off before the earth scientists discover that earth warming will accelerate as the world’s leaders promise to turn down the heat. Earth ...