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Welcome back Norsk Hostfest

Tim Mihalick, President, Norsk Hostfest, Minot It’s my great pleasure to welcome you to the 43rd annual Norsk Hostfest! After two years offline, I am thrilled to have this event back in our beloved community. This wonderful event is made possible by our volunteers, vendors, visitors, and corporate sponsors. We couldn’t do this without your support, so thank you! While attending Norsk Hostfest, I encourage you to enjoy the high-quality entertainment found in both the Great Hall of the Vikings and the numerous side stages placed throughout the festival grounds. This year’s ...

Conference brings focus to nutrition

Karen Ehrens, Former coordinator, Creating a Hunger Free North Dakota and Healthy North Dakota Bismarck September 28, 2022, the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health will be streamed online live across the country from Washington, DC. This one-day summit will bring together people and organizations working to end hunger and improve the quality of and access to food. The initiative’s goal is to end hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity by 2030, so that fewer Americans experience diet-related diseases like diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. A ...

All racism is evil

Andrew Allis, Granville “It’s time we have an honest conversation about race in this country.” So goes the now cliched disingenuous offer usually initialed by the left. Disingenuous because they are not looking to have “a” conversation about race, but only a particular one that fits their narrative of America as a deeply “systemically” racist country. If anyone, especially a white person, disagrees with that premise, then you know what happens. They are called what? You got it, a RACIST (shouted and stated with outrage and moral superiority for the maximum virtue ...

ND media aren’t listening to women

Lana Rakow, West Fargo Charlene Rawson, Lisbon Apparently some media pundits in North Dakota don’t care much how women in North Dakota feel and what they think. The coverage and commentary they are disseminating about Mark Haugen’s decision to leave the U.S. House of Representatives race show how little they understand this new political landscape with angry women in it. When columnists and editorial writers are dismissive of “one issue” taking center stage in North Dakota politics, it’s because they don’t get or don’t care how much reproductive freedom and access ...

Let’s celebrate clean energy

George Merkt, Students For a Conservative Voice, Minneapolis, Minn. National Clean Energy Week is September 26-30, and efforts to implement clean energy in North Dakota should be supported this week. Renewable energy will be an essential part of the state’s energy supply in the future and it will provide a boost to the state’s economy as the industry continues to grow. As North Dakota continues its all-of-the-above energy approach lead by elected officials such as U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, renewable energy should be recognized as a key component of its success. The ...

Public education failures will destroy us

Norton Lovold, Bismarck Public education has been under attack for years by politicians who want to make our schools educate in the way they want them to be educated rather than having a broad education that will prepare them for real life. That is why they push for private or charter schools that will indoctrinate rather than educate. This latest issue of Critical Race Theory is a very helpful to them to make sure people are afraid of learning the truth about our history. If you attempt to take race out of history, you are no longer teaching history because our nation was built ...