Asher Noel Minot As a graduate of the University of Mary in Bismarck, I am disgusted at the recent announcement that they have accepted a $5 million donation from Energy Transfer Partners, the developers of DAPL. I won’t even start with the human rights violations against the Standing ...

Bev Fields Minot I commend you for all of you hard work presenting “The Jungle Book: The Musical.” You attention to detail didn’t go unnoticed. You transformed a Logan hillside backyard into a little paradise for our enjoyment. You well-orchestrated plan included wonderful signs of ...

Jim Maxson Minot According to known left wing liberal, Rupert Murdock’s Wall Street Journal, a “Time Bomb Looms for Aging America.” Is this an alternative fact or fake news? According to the June 23-24 edition of WSJ, the median 401K of Americans will generate under $8,000 per year ...

Chris Baker Minot As for teacher safety, we are hidebound by federal regulations (tied to funding) that are used to keep problem students in classrooms with IEPs which, when used properly, assure equal education opportunity, but, when used as easiest simply keep a troubled kid in a class ...

Carol M. Russell Bismarck Madeleine Albright gives us a chilling message, in fact, “a warning.” And she isn’t kidding. In her latest book, “Fascism,” she cites historian Robert Paxton who tells us: “Fascism was the major political innovation of the 20th Century.” Benito and ...

Nancy Bommelman Minot Can anybody tell me why we don’t take care of our police officers or firemen? They are going other places to work because our benefits SUCK! They arrest people every single day they put their lives on the line for us every single day. I hear from people that say ...

Josh Wolsky Minot No. No. No. Just no. A recent letter to the editor got it wrong. No, the City of Minot does not have six electrical inspectors. No, the City of Minot does not have six plumbing inspectors. This is utter nonsense. The City of Minot’s Building Inspection budget is on ...

Former U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy D-ND A health insurance policy is one of life’s most important protections. Without it, there is nothing between the consumer and financial ruin if high medical costs are suddenly incurred. Tragic accidents and horrible medical diagnoses occur every single ...

Joe Ferrara Minot I’m pleasantly surprised that someone actually read my letter (the one that appeared in the June 24 Minot Daily News editorial section). Jim Lien read it; thank you Jim! Unfortunately, I failed to convince. I’m sorry that Mr. Lien wasn’t persuaded, but I think he ...

Hayley Stenberg Minot Shopping small and shopping local are nice words we all like to use, we talk the talk but are we walking the walk. Are we the person that knows it’s the right thing to do but not practicing what we think or say because it is simply TOO easy to not. Don’t ...

Judy Stahl Valley City Under the pretense of limiting illegal immigration, U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia, has introduced H.R. 4760, the Securing America’s Future Act of 2018. This bill introduces mandatory national ID cards called “E-Verify” containing ...

Roger Sundahl Gig Harbor, Wash. Several months ago, I publicly asked State Representative Marvin Nelson to disclose who is paying for his lawsuit against the state of North Dakota and mineral owners. In a telephone conversation with Rep. Marvin Nelson last week, I asked him again who is ...

Hal Gershman Grand Forks The decision by the Supreme Court of the United States permitting the states to charge sales tax on goods purchased outside of a state is a huge win for main street businesses. As stated in the Grand Forks Herald editorial June 23rd, “The issue that started in ...

Steven Moen Minot I wish Krisanna Peterson would consider the ramification of her words prior to telling Christians how we are to act in respect to illegal alien families. Does she practice what she preaches? Are her doors and windows open to any and all who show up and demand entrance. ...

Jim Lein Minot I’m assuming that the author of the “Heitkamp a cheerleader for abortion” letter, Joseph Ferrara, is a guy. As I am. And I think that instead of legally restricting women’s options for dealing with a difficult and unique situation, as Ferrara advocates, we men ...

Chris Baker Minot No appointment of Sipma replacement. The need for a special election, not more than 6 weeks after the vacancy creation by vote certification, was foreseeable and should have been taken into account. To appoint a replacement is to deprive the citizens of a vote already ...

Eugene Graner Bismarck What is wrong with the American Soybean Association? Here is the representation of the fastest-growing segment of agriculture, the growing of soybeans. Soybeans have now become the largest planted acreage in the United States, eclipsing corn. Add to that, Brazil who ...

Sen. Tim Mathern Fargo It appears the Trump administration finally ended its policy of separating families at the border. After weeks of heartbreaking news stories and thousands of social media messages, President Trump heard what most Americans have been saying since the policy was ...

M.L. Berg Minot Perhaps the legacy of our present national administration will be summed up in the line, “I’d love to change the world, but I don’t know what to do!” It’s a line from a pop song by the band Ten Years After, who were popular in the Vietnam War era of our history.

Casey Knock Minot Look at the drought monitor. It shows that the hail suppression is not what they are doing. The kill off of the smelt should have been enough to see the big picture. The planes constantly flying around, large jets up high, flying irregular patterns. They are poisoning ...