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Protect Public Radio’s crucial role

Ann Porter Grand Forks Public media, including National Public Radio (NPR), plays a crucial role in keeping Americans informed — especially in rural states like North Dakota. Stations such as Prairie Public Radio deliver trusted news, thoughtful conversation, and local programming that commercial stations often overlook. From agricultural updates and in-depth election coverage to music, arts, and educational storytelling, public radio serves our communities with substance over sound bites. For many North Dakotans, it’s a daily connection to the broader world and to each ...

ND legislation session nears adjournment

Lillian Crook, Bismarck So, here comes the adjournment of the 2025 ND Legislative Session. I follow the headlines from afar and there is some seemingly never-ending shocking stuff about Holmberg, et al. The people who live and work in the ND disability community are looking at meager 1.5 or 2% increases, at best. From what I can tell there is, under the surface, some real bickering on the part of the legislators on how they are going to wrap this session up, much as there might be some smiling faces put out there for us to see. There are some vetoes and some signings and some ...

Protestors value corruption, fraud over American taxpayers

Steve Moen, Minot I found it special what the people totally affected by TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) did in the state a few weeks ago with the protests in Fargo, Bismarck and Minot, whining about the deportation of illegal alien gang bangers, the uncovering of massive fraud, deceit and corruption, and the lay off of government workers who helped in the corruption just amazing. These TDS people, including former US House candidate Hammer value gang bangers, corruption, fraud and a host of other issues above the hard working taxpaying citizens that live in fear of gang bangers, ...

Many veterans depend on Veterans Affairs

Wayne Fisher, Dickinson Do Senator Hoeven, Senator Cramer, and Representative Fedorchak support the elimination or reduction of the Veterans Affairs (VA) and the VA benefits? Give them a call. More than likely our state Republican legislators and governor support Trump’s view. Call them also. There are probably more than 15 million veterans in the USA and many are dependent on the VA. Didn’t Trump avoid the draft by claiming heel spurs? Do all billionaires have heel spurs? Didn’t Trump call veterans who died in wars “losers” and “suckers”? Wow! I am almost certain that ...

Worker protection structure under threat

Landis Larson, Bismarck This week is Workers Memorial Day, April 28th, a day when working families, union members and labor leaders come together to remember each worker killed, injured and sickened from their jobs, and to organize for an end to these preventable deaths of our brothers and sisters. This is a time for us to organize for a safer future for all workers. The workplace protections we have today exist because workers organized, fought and died for them. Yet each day in the United States, 360 workers lose their lives due to their job — 14 a day from injury alone — and ...

Veto would protect public schools

Molly Haagenson Grand Forks I am writing to urge Governor Kelly Armstrong to veto HB 1540, which would send public dollars to private schools. Over the past few months, I have grown increasingly frustrated with our state legislature for pushing bills (at one point, there were six!) that would benefit only a small minority of North Dakotans at the expense of our public education system. As a child of a lifelong educator, the lack of support for public education by our state legislature is extremely disappointing. Let me be clear: the issue isn’t private schools. I’ve been a ...