It’s surprising that there are mixed feelings among farmers about the farm property tax exemption. One might assume that farmers would support the exemption whether or not they qualified under new regulations or not. Instead, while some farmers and organizations representing agricultural ...
On Saturday, nonviolent anti-Nazi protestor Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville when a car driven by a white nationalist slammed into other cars, sending them into a crowd. Nineteen others were injured. That driver, James Fields, Jr., now faces multiple criminal charges in Virginia, ...
KULM — The concern in Kulm began with a Facebook post from Shannon Maresh, the granddaughter of white supremacist Gordon Winrod. Maresh, formerly Shannon Leppert, wrote that her grandfather was “setting up shop” in the old Kulm school. “We are all ‘blood sucking Jews,’ whatever ...
News this week that Minot will receive a $180,000 state grant to strengthen its efforts to treat opioid use disorders and improve community education is great news for Minot and for the Mayor’s Committee on Addiction, which has been meeting to look at holistic ways to address the threat. ...
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un appears to have blinked and President Trump can claim a foreign policy victory and justification for his strategy. Reminiscent of President Ronald Reagan’s “peace through strength” approach to deterring adversaries, President Trump stood up to the ...
The “alt-right” is evil. White supremacism is evil. Neo-Nazism is evil. I’ve been saying these things my entire career; I’ve spent more than a year slamming various factions on the right that refuse to disassociate from and condemn popularizers of the racist alt-right. The media, ...
The country has been gripped by bad news lately, from ridiculous protests turned violent to crazy foreign leaders thinking they need nukes to negotiate for international public assistance. Fortunately there has been a spate of good news here at home as of late – it has remembered how to ...
How free is your speech when the price of saying or doing something controversial may be your livelihood and personal well being? That’s an important question for America in 2017, where expressing unpopular views might earn you a public shaming on Twitter and a “doxing” (online slang ...
When the Dodge Charger of 20-year-old Nazi sympathizer James Alex Fields Jr., plunged into that crowd of protesters Saturday, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer, Fields put Charlottesville on the map of modernity alongside Ferguson. Before Fields ran down the protesters, and then backed up, ...
A slew of ideas have been discussed, debates have raged and it has all often ended up in hands thrown up in the air for some. While some communities in our region have developed event centers and similar institutions to act as prime visitor draws, Minot has not. Here, instead, we have chosen to ...
In 2005, the Los Angeles Times hired me as a columnist. That was great news (for me). But the best part was when Barbra Streisand canceled her subscription in protest. Her real complaint wasn’t so much that the Times had hired me, but that it had dropped Robert Scheer, an old-style, ...
Nobody – well, hardly anybody – brings teacher an apple these days. That tradition vanished years ago. That is a shame. Afterall, today’s teachers are no less important than those of a generation or two ago. Some would argue the teacher of today is of more value to society than our ...
With a severe drought having put its boot on the throat of North Dakota’s agriculture industry, simmering resentment over the state’s weather modification efforts have come to the surface. Seven North Dakota counties — Bowman, Burke, McKenzie, Mountrail, Ward, Williams, and a part of ...
Would a fair society have exactly the same percentage of men and women, of whites and blacks and Latinos and Asians, in every line of work and occupational category? If your answer is yes, and that any divergence from these percentages must necessarily result from oppression, then you qualify ...
North Dakota’s policy on the home monitoring option for those convicted to serve time in jail is problematic for a couple of reasons. As reported in last week’s Minot Daily News, the North Dakota Legislature voted to pass the Re-investment Act. In summary, the Re-investment Act directed ...
Troy Johnson Williston I see a solution to Minot’s money problems, to start with, do what the oilfield does, lay everyone off, start over at a lower wage, take all the benefits away, including vacations and start from scratch. Also the ones that can’t get laid off gets a 10 percent cut, ...
In his farewell address, George Washington warned us about the evils of political parties, claiming that they “distract the public councils “and “agitate the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindle the animosity of one part against another, foment occasionally riot ...
This weekend, Minot Daily News enjoyed a visit from City of Minot administrators and staff. The subject was the 2018 proposed working budget. Their objective was to explain the lengthy document and to answer questions. To be clear, it was informational and not a lobbying effort. In fact, it was ...
Wayne Rowe Minot I have just read the article titled: “So Let’s Cut the Budget.” The news video I saw online suggested that every department including the airport will experience cutbacks. I was a city employee at the airport until July of this year. Sorry, but unless they plan on ...
Margaret Hass Minot We have so many things to enjoy in Minot no one can deny but being part of our pioneer’s life at the Pioneer Village is one of the best for both the young and old. The Veterans display in the museum is something all should see. It makes you so proud of our Veterans and ...