Today I will continue my statewide military tour in Minot, where I’ll tour the 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, this is all part of an effort to learn how I can support ...
To hear certain apologists for North Dakota’s higher education system tell it, things would be glorious if it weren’t for the short-sighted rubes in the the Legislature and the general public holding things back with our ridiculous demands for efficiency and accountability. If only we’d ...
Although most of Minot’s roads have been well cleared of most snow, some continue to cite parked vehicles as a challenge. Curb-side parked cars, particularly on smaller, residential streets can still be found covered in snow and with snow built up around them because of the lack of access ...
Here is the problem for Trump critics. They began with the wrong premise. They believed that Hillary Clinton should have won the 2016 presidential election. Then they deluded themselves by embracing the notion that Trump was illegitimate, unstable, stupid and an offense to everything they ...
Commercial remote piloted aircraft continue to increase in popularity and as the technology improves, they will probably only to continue in popularity. While there are many questions about the use of drones, the most significant ones are those that affect military and law ...
There's an old joke about an egotistical politician whose disgruntled speechwriter, just before quitting, prepares a draft that promises the moon, and specifics for how to pay for it, on the first two pages, and leaves the third page blank except for the words "You're on your own now." ...
If the 2020 election were simply a question of whether voters want President Donald Trump to serve another term, he would lose. His job approval ratings have consistently been in the low- to mid-40s nationwide, and it's no better in potential battleground states. Scott- Rasmussen.com polling ...
An experiment tried at Roosevelt Park Zoo in the fall of 2016 has proven to be a success. Zoo officials decided to give winter hours a try on weekdays and Saturdays and the public has responded most positively. Visitor numbers keep improving. In fact, the zoo had a 60 percent increase in its ...
NBC late-night comedian Seth Meyers recently dedicated one of his "comedy" diatribes to denouncing "scaremongering about socialism." Liberals have a right to lecture us on some things, but scaremongering ain't one of them. These are the same people who relentlessly scaremonger the American ...
Collin Nelson, Minot Recently, Senate bill 2137 was introduced for an exemption to the current tobacco laws allowing for cigar lounges that would be attached to tobacco sales establishments. The entire purpose for this exemption is to allow those that enjoy cigars to have a place AWAY from ...
Most of us are more than one thing, but sometimes one thing happens that changes us forever. David Hogg, a survivor of last year's Valentine's Day massacre in Parkland, Florida, comes to mind. He was 17 when, sitting in his AP environmental science class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ...
Gary Hoffer Bismarck I always placed my bets on wise North Dakota logic. Wait, I might have been wrong. Old white guys leading us to the promise land. I had progressive ingenuity in mind. What was I thinking? When you think you have a sure thing the one armed bandit spits out a rusty ...
"This is the year!” Herb exclaimed to his longtime buddy Gordon on the assembly line over in the plastics factory. “So for what reason is this the year?” Gordon asked. “We’ve both passed at least 50 but without showing any favoritism to other years.” “This is the year I’m ...
Patti Patrie, Bowdon Proponents of weakening our state’s current anti-corporate farming law are now using “second cousins” as a foil to do so in HB 1388. Our law, which 75 percent of North Dakotans supported at the ballot box in 2016, needs no tweaking or amending. In a recent ...
Dan Reinhard, Minot I believe the national Democratic Party might be missing golden opportunities to move progressively forward on their desired policy items. It appears that a large majority of the Democratic Party members strongly wish to enact legislation for the following improvements to ...
Troy Ross Berthold My career as a teacher of junior high and high school students over the past 30-plus years has been filled with the usual ups and downs of life. Good moments and bad moments occur on a daily basis, but I’ve realized, over the past few years, that I tend to focus on the ...
Sharon Buhr Valley City The people of North Dakota have voted. We voted FOR Measure 1 which is now Article 14 of our North Dakota Constitution. We voted for this ethics measure because we believe in fairness and honesty, and because in previous legislative sessions our legislators refused ...
Gary Angell Garrison We as a nation have a lot different ideas on what should be done to fix the influx of illegal aliens? We have a country that is made of people from all over the world many families can trace the heritage to countries from all over the world, people who have made our ...
North Dakota’s oil and gas production has hit new all-time high records, according to preliminary figures. In December, oil production reached 1.4 million barrels a day. The state also produced 2.65 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas. The most recent numbers were released on Friday by ...
My first reaction upon hearing that hundreds of leaders in the Southern Baptist church had sexually abused as many as 700 people in 400 churches, including victims as young as 3, was "how could they?" It was the same reaction I had when news of predatory priests in the Roman Catholic Church, ...