Administrators at 34 hospitals in big cities throughout the country could address homeland security-related criticism easily — providing someone is willing to supply the mountain of money required to do so.

The Minot Public School District is doing the right thing if it continues to do extensive background checks on new employees.

Let’s face it, there’s no simple and quick solution to rising fuel prices.

Instituting a national gas tax holiday sounds nice, but critics differ over how much of an effect it would really have at the gas pump.

    The U.S. government has been condemned soundly for continuing to hold a variety of prisoners accused of terrorist activities. Most of them are incarcerated at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

    Reconstruction projects undertaken in Iraq by private companies working for the U.S. government seem to have been a success, in general. But failures — including some labeled as successes — are troubling.