×

Editorials

Tribal greenhouse project unique

When the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes) broke ground on Monday for Native Green Grow along N.D. Highway 23 near Parshall, it marked the official start for construction of a greenhouse project. Native Green Grown (NG2) is a food sovereignty initiative of the ...

Efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine shines through

Why is it that in the 21st century you rarely hear about conditions that were once a threat to society—things like polio and diphtheria, and many other diseases that have impacted our communities? And why have deadly flu outbreaks been reduced to an occasional inconvenience for most? In a ...

Women entrepreneurs driving America’s recovery from pandemic

Since 1987, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has celebrated Women’s History Month to recognize the role women entrepreneurs have in building and strengthening our local and national economies. Women have transformed the face of entrepreneurship across America in both urban and ...

Online learning is different, but can be successful

GRAND FORKS – It’s been almost a year since we entered the pandemic and schools were forced to quickly move to remote learning options. As two parents with high-school and college-age children who are doing some type of online learning, we have heard the refrains of, “Online education is ...

Infrastructure investment should be priority, not talking point

(From the Feb. 23 Washington Times) "In July 2019, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee did something rare. We put aside the partisan theatrics consuming the 116th Congress, crafted a bipartisan highway bill, and unanimously passed it through committee. While this bill, ...

Grateful for COVID efforts, effective emergency process

From early on in this pandemic, it was clear this was going to be more of a marathon than a sprint. Now, thanks to the selfless and tireless efforts of so many North Dakotans across our great state, we are well-positioned to finish strongly even as we continue to watch out for potential ...