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Why to vote on legalizing marijuana

Dan Donlin Bismarck As a former law enforcement officer, I feel it is my duty to explain why legalizing marijuana is a terrible idea and why I’m asking you to vote NO on Measure 2. Many of us believe that legalizing marijuana in North Dakota will be bad for our people, communities, and minds and bodies of North Dakotans, especially our young and impressionable kids. In my opinion, those in favor of legalizing marijuana are painting a false picture of safety and a lack of problems associated with legalization. If they were being honest, they would bring up all the ...

Becker stands for civil liberties

Jerol Gohrick McGregor As I check my mail daily, I notice more and more flyers from John Hoeven bashing Rick Becker and he seems to be fixated on the topic of crop insurance. He claims that Rick Becker is against the farmer. Not only have I done my research but over the past year I have gotten to know Rick Becker and spoke with him personally about this topic. Rick Becker is not against the farmer and does not want to end crop insurance but instead wants to reform it to make it better. He wants to offer a private option and move it away from our federal government and into the ...

Mund is typical politician

Sierra Heitkamp Barney It has only taken Cara Mund two months to show that she is a typical politician who will say anything to get elected. Mund entered the race to represent North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives in August. Shortly after, she told KFGO that the “driving force” behind her decision to run was the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Fast forward to today and Mund is running digital ads declaring it was her opponent’s voting record that pushed her to run. What is different now that is causing Mund to ...

Don’t allow Measure 2 to pass

Raymond Grey Bear Bismarck An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Middle school children are seriously at risk for wide-spread abuse. Who is advocating for them? Statistics show that if a student succeeded in middle school, they are likely to be a high school graduate and continue to secondary schools. “ND Measure 2” seeks to legalize recreational marijuana. Have we not learned how young people have acquired vaping and vaping marijuana incidents? Can you imagine what teachers will have to do in order to try to instruct young people who are high on THC in their ...

Vote after careful consideration

Gary E. Berube , Mandan What to do before you vote. Remember who opened the border, defunded the police, allowed crime to run rampant, paid people more to stay at home than to work, increased inflation and gas prices the highest ever, stopped our oil production, depleted our emergency oil reserves. The open border has allowed 2 million plus illegal votes to come in and to receive free education, health, housing and food at taxpayer expense. Defunding police has encouraged and allowed crime. Stopping oil production made us dependent on foreign oil. Our emergency oil reserves are for a ...

Fuel crisis shows change is needed

Steven Moen Minot We just watched Tucker Carlson tell us how it is quite possible that the US runs out of diesel fuel in just 25 days. So I sent this letter to Hoeven. Whether it is just a 25 day surplus or we’re actually going to run out in 25 days I don’t know but either way I want to know why we haven’t heard anything from you on this issue or maybe you don’t think it’s important.  I think it is something you should be shouting from the house tops as loud as you can to wake everyone up to the pending danger of dying this winter or maybe you’re all caught up ...