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Service was opportunity of lifetime J. Patrick Traynor Fargo (Editorial Note: Among the Minot agencies associated with the N.D. Department of Health and Human Services are First District Health Unit and North Central Behavioral Health Clinic.) As I reflect on my last 15 months in Bismarck, there’s one word that keeps coming to mind: “blessed.” Blessed that Gov. Kelly Armstrong gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to work on a set of issues I am so passionate about. Blessed that the boards of Dakota Medical Foundation and Impact Foundation encouraged and supported me for the ...

President’s populist image Is dead

National Columnists

As predictions of a blue wave swell, it's worthwhile to remember that polls are sometimes wrong, that surveys have tended to undercount Trump voters, that professional prognosticators can err, and that Allan Lichtman is only right when he's lucky. And yet, if there has ever been a politician ...

Trump deserves credit for Iran strategy

National Columnists

Iran's strategy in this war was never complicated. The mullahs believed that if they choked the Strait of Hormuz long enough, Americans would feel it at the gas pump and Washington would lose its nerve before the midterms. Brent crude spiked past $107 a barrel this month, and Iranian-aligned ...

Federal debt keeps growing

National Columnists

Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so, and legislators sure act that way. Federal debt held by the public now equals the size of the annual economy – and is growing. Yet investors continue buying ...

Data hub rises in age of AI anxiety

National Columnists

The last time that I stood on these grounds along the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, was 1976, 19 years after the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States opened here. My Perry High School physics teacher, David Burrows, had loaded a handful of us into a ...

Someone's always watching

National Columnists

Do you worry that you're being watched? If you drive, you probably are. My new video covers the cameras that photograph the backs of millions of cars. A company called Flock has 80% of that market. Flock's CEO says the goal is to "eliminate crime." But lots of people hate ...