Tuesday's election wasn't a blue wave or even a blue tsunami: It was a blue apocalypse. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who leads the one notable bright spot on the map, referred to the wipeout as "close to an extinction-level event" for the GOP. It was the worst midterm defeat for one ...
Colorado politicians promised the state's families universal pre-K programs but snatched the promise back from Catholic parents who want to choose a school that supports their religious beliefs. Parents fought them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Recently, the justices heard ...
Before Elon Musk's recent political reversal (he voted for both Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020), he was beloved by the Left as the first successful upstart challenger to the century-long dominance of the Big Three fossil-fuel automakers. Liberals once loved his revolutionary, ...
David Haugen Minot North American Iron (NAI) wants to transport their iron waste around 500 miles from Calumet, MN, to Minot, ND, to convert it into pig iron. The pig iron would again need to be transported to a steel manufacturing plant many miles away. NAI is willing to incur these transportation expenses because for some reason MN will not approve the processing of the iron waste in MN. NAI plans to develop a 2,400 acre site near Minot for this processing plant because Minot has access to abundant energy and water. NAI proposes 650 permanent jobs. Limited information was provided ...
Gary Stewart Laguna Beach, California Why is a West Coast resident writing to the Minot Daily News? My town and multiple neighboring towns are flooding this week partly because of decades of decisions in North Dakota and other oil-producing states to prioritize oil and gas production, resulting in heat-trapping emissions. The scientific debate about this is settled, other than fine-tuning. North Dakota's congressional delegation has welcomed EPA changes that will greatly increase methane emissions. The 95% gas capture rate still allows for high-volume flaring of millions of cubic ...
Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? We pay its taxes, obey its laws and regulations, finance its wars and submit to its surveillance. We are told that all of this is necessary for personal safety, collective prosperity and national security. Yet the ...
