Labor Day is a day to pay tribute to American workers. Traditionally it is observed on the first Monday of September so this year we will observe it this coming Monday. Job Service North Dakota reported that labor statistics for July, the most recent statistics available, show the state’s ...

Last Friday, at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Fed chair Jerome Powell said that the Fed must continue to raise interest rates, even though it will “bring some pain to households and businesses.” This is nuts. True, inflation is near a four-decade high. But the Fed’s aggressive effort to tame ...

I wrote a column in 2011, as the presidential politics of the upcoming year were starting to unfold, with the headline “Why 2012 looks a lot like 1860.” The deep fracturing of the American electorate -- remember the Tea Party? -- leading up to the 2012 presidential election was starting ...

North Dakota is a rich state thanks to its lucrative oil and gas industry bringing extensive oil and gas tax revenues into the state’s coffers. All this makes it possible for a significant plan released earlier this week. Gov. Doug Burgum and legislative leaders announced at a news ...

Summer vacation is over for students in Minot and area schools, and they’re heading back to their classrooms. Many students rely on school buses to bring them to school or bring them home. If you are a driver, the U.S. Department of Transportation offers a few simple rules: Yellow ...

Scammers make the news quite often. But they should because they’re out there trying to catch people off guard and hoping they do so they can capture them for their fraudulent schemes. One of the most recent scams occurred earlier this week when a phone caller pretending to be from a ...