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Congrats to Jim Rostad

The Minot Daily News congratulates Jim Rostad, who has been re-elected as Northwest director on the North Dakota School Board Association’s board of directors, according to information provided by the NDSBA. Rostad, who is also the president of the Minot Public School Board, was first elected to the state board in 2010 and served as president of the state board from 2014-2016. Rostad brings valuable experience to both the Minot school board and to the state board. He has served as Minot school board president since 2012 and also serves as the liaison to the Minot Air Force Base ...

Time for ND’s Christmas wish list

With a contentious election now behind us it is time to look ahead to perhaps more important things – like penning a Christmas wish list. For starters, how about a surefire way to halt the spread of COVID-19 and better ways to treat its symptoms? That should be at the top of everybody’s list. One in 14 North Dakotans have tested positive for the virus and, obviously, many, many more have suffered from separation from friends and family. Finding a “cure” should be our number one wish. And then there is the wish of many for a peaceful transition of power in the White House. ...

No one should have to pay from own pocket

COVID-19 testing is more than a matter of individuals safeguarding their own health and that of their families. It has become an important tool in limiting the disease’s spread. Recognizing that, members of Congress included an important testing provision in the CARES Act approved earlier this year. It is that people can obtain COVID-19 tests without having to pay out of their own pockets. Leave it to the federal bureaucracy — the swamp, if you prefer — to strangle a prudent initiative with red tape. Fifty-four members of the House of Representatives, led by U.S. Reps. ...

2020 census may need to be discarded

Census Bureau officials’ claim the agency was able to collect information from 99.9% of the households in America strains credibility. It would during normal times, not to mention the middle of a deadly epidemic. If officials in several states, cities and organizations are right, the bureau simply isn’t telling the truth. In fact, some officials within it made up reports on households. A lawsuit has been filed against the bureau by the National Urban League, the states of Massachusetts, North Carolina and Texas, and assorted others with interests in the population count. ...

Special honor appropriate for WWII Medal of Honor recipients

Before long, the last American military veteran of World War II will be gone from among us. We can never thank and honor them adequately — but President Donald Trump is being asked to do something special that would provide an appropriate formal and national expression of gratitude. In our country, state funerals are reserved for very high-ranking people such as ex-presidents. Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from West Virginia want President Donald Trump to order that the last surviving Medal of Honor winner from World War II be honored in that way. There ...

Americans can’t afford a new lockdown

With COVID-19 slashing through populations throughout the world, some nations are preparing for lockdowns of the type employed last spring to curb the virus’ spread. Americans can’t afford to do that. Another business slowdown/shutdown of the type we experienced for a few months could well send the economic plunging into a depression. In France, where the epidemic death toll topped 36,000 during the weekend, another lockdown — this one to last four weeks — was ordered. All 67 million people in the country have been told to stay at home, or face criminal charges. The only ...