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Letters to the Editor

Who Killed HB 1373?

Andrew Allis Granville North Dakota House Bill 1373, known as the “Prenatal Equal Protection Act,” or the “Personhood Bill,” which would have afforded the same rights to those human beings within the womb as those without, was effectively killed, as similar bills have been in ...

Administration overreach creates constitutional crisis

BadAss Grandmas Leadership Team; Dina Butcher, Ellen Chaffee, Kathy Tweeten, Sarah Vogel, Bismarck; Lyn Dockter-Pinnick, Moorhead, Minn.; Barb Lang, Jamestown; Lynnell Simonson Popowski, Warsaw; Jane Williams, Fargo And all 356 members of BG4D The BadAss Grandmas for Democracy, a ...

Highest vote getter should win

Barbara Headrick, League of Women Voters ND, president, Fargo The North Dakota Legislature is considering a resolution (SCR 4013) proclaiming support for the Electoral College, our system for electing the US President. Under this system, a candidate doesn’t need to get the most votes to ...

State’s education investment should be in public schools

Ashley Gaschk, Bismarck North Dakota’s 69th Legislative Assembly is nearly halfway over, and lawmakers will soon decide whether to create Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), which would use taxpayer money to cover tuition at private schools. For most North Dakotans, the prospect of ...

ND SB 2208 must be quashed

Rick Schlecht, Kulm George Soros makes a point against BlackRock Inc., pouring monies into China interests, per an article by Bloomberg: George Soros says BlackRock’s China investments “tragic mistake”: 7 Sept 2021, by Russell Ward. Soros explains, in an op-ed in the Wall Street ...

Taxes, control should be local

Kevin P. Nelson Minot It is interesting to follow the proposals on cutting, reimbursing or eliminating property tax. There seems to be a continuous movement for higher levels of government to take over the funding, and then the control, of what has been a lower level’s responsibility. A ...