Amy Jacobson, Prairie Action Executive director Right now, the North Dakota Legislature is considering a slate of so-called “education savings account” bills. Whatever the poll-tested “school choice” label of the week is, don’t be fooled — they do the same thing in effect: drain ...

Kay Kupser, Minot All Minot residents should be thankful for the 911 operator and EMT response team we have at our disposal. They responded to an emergency situation that occurred on March 27 at the Moose Lodge. The 911 call was placed and in 3-5 minutes the team was in the building. They ...

John Evanson, Fargo I am John Evanson, president of AFGE Local 3884, representing the hardworking staff of the Fargo VA hospital. There has been a concerted effort by this administration to paint Federal workers as incompetent and lazy working in a system that is fraught with abuse, fraud and ...

Linde Paige, Minot With the recent Mayor situation, I would like to encourage the citizens of Minot to allow the current Minot City Council members to select 1 of the 6 to the Mayor seat. Simply, the citizens have already voted this group into their seats. We should allow the council now to ...

Matt Gerszewski, West Fargo Seems like a number of bad choices have been made by Magic City leaders in the nearly four years since I moved from there after 40-plus years of enjoying life in Minot. The people of Minot deserve much better leadership than they’ve been getting. What in hades ...

Bob McNamara, Upham This week gave us two more examples of our Senate delegation not taking their role of advice and consent seriously. Mr. DeJoy was a terribly controversial nominee for postmaster general and our delegation knew of the controversy. Yet they bobbled along with the party line ...