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Letters to the Editor: Pig iron plant evokes past respiratory disasters

Letters to the Editor

Julie Reiten Minot The proposed pig iron plant has me pondering the industrial disasters Minot has experienced in the last 40 years and how they have affected our respiratory health. On April 4, 1987, the Westchem agricultural chemicals company’s warehouse on South Broadway caught fire. The warehouse contained 54 different chemicals, many of them toxic. It was the United State's first major agricultural chemicals fire, and it featured 40 foot flames and a mile-wide cloud of black smoke that drifted north over the city. 10,000 people in Minot were evacuated, and there were numerous ...

Isn't this an attack on democracy?

National Columnists

In August, Mary Peltola told Alaskans, "It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate. YES!" Her campaign might have wanted to check its own text messages before she said it. According to a New York Times investigation published Wednesday, top Peltola aides in the ...

Letters to the Editor: Now who is ducking, covering?

Letters to the Editor

Don Morrison Bismarck When I was young, our school in Minot had a drill. We would crouch down under our desks and put our hands above our heads to practice how to survive in case of a nuclear attack. It was called “duck and cover.” It was the height of the Cold War and we were preparing against the possibility of the Soviet Union launching nuclear missiles at us. North Dakota was Ground Zero because we had bombers and fighters – as well as a couple hundred nuclear-tipped missiles located in bunkers under our topsoil. That meant the Russians would hit us first. ...

Same old, same old

National Columnists

If you live long enough you hear the same promises and accusations repeated by politicians of both parties. They will make your life better if you vote for them. Is your life better because of a politician? I doubt it. Mine gets worse when they raise my taxes. Democrats are re-cycling the ...

America has addiction to war

National Columnists

America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions of dollars. Yet these wars ...

Art of living good life

National Columnists

Last week, I went to the funeral of a friend's 100-year-old mother. It was sad, and I will sorely miss her, but the service was not tragic. In fact, it was uplifting, a lesson on a life well lived. What impressed me at the service was hearing her friends describe how she'd become a ...