If you haven’t been to Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot lately, it’s time to pay a visit. There’s some spectacular new animal habitat to view plus seeing the beautifully maintained grounds of trees, plants and countless flowers. The new African lions’ habitat allows an upclose view of ...

Use of excessive force by law enforcement personnel is a problem that transcends race, as a video shot in Buffalo, New York makes clear. Taken by a television news crew, the video shows Buffalo police responding to a demonstration in the city’s Niagara Square. Like so many throughout the ...

Holding all elections by absentee ballot, whether ballots are mailed in or dropped off, does not seem appealing. We can only hope what was prompted by COVID-19 for the primary election doesn’t become part of the “new norm.” Certainly, the technology to hold elections that way exists. ...

No one knows with certainty how many human beings — men, women and children — were forced to stand on the 800-pound stone that remained planted in the ground on a street corner in Fredericksburg, Virginia for 176 years. What we do know is that each and every one of them was treated like an ...

Prosecutors in Minnesota last Wednesday made the right move by broadening the reach of their efforts in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. Now the three officers who stood by and watched Derek Chauvin press his knee into Floyd’s neck until he stopped breathing have been charged with ...

Calls for massive “defunding” of law enforcement are simply insane. When political correctness addles our brains to the point we fail to recognize the critical need we have for the “thin blue line” to safeguard us from crime, we Americans will be in real, imminent danger. Yet some ...