Last week, some of America observed the heroism of one Martin Luther King who was murdered because he thought that “We, the people” should include more than white European immigrants. While some celebrated, others did not, doing their best to see that black lives did not matter. In ...

I have long lamented the state of affairs with the political parties in North Dakota. The Republican party has become a very big-tent party. In most of the state, if someone wants to run for office, they realize their only hope for success is to run as a Republican. They may or may not have ...

I know it’s early in the new year, but the 2022 City election isn’t really that far away, and for those interested in running for public office, the clock is ticking. The 2022 city election will be held June 14; the deadline to file petitions for office is April 11. There are several ...

If the Democratic Party plans to influence public policy in North Dakota, it will need cognitive flexibility in abundance. Right now, it is in short supply. Cognitive flexibility means the ability to recognize the need for change but traveling in the same rut, no matter what. The focus of ...

Living in North Dakota is somewhat insulating to the COVID hysteria, no thanks to several authoritarian-leaning health “experts” and the ND Department of Health (that’s redundant). I absolutely love hearing from people that travelled to North Dakota from a crazy blue state, and they say ...

The dramatic decline of the newspaper industry has been continuing as community newspapers across the country have been folding left and right. Since 2005, 2,200 local newspapers across America have been forced to close their doors. Not only have the rural areas lost a lot of subscribers but ...