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Protect Medicaid from harmful cuts

Julie Horntvedt, Executive director, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, on behalf of N.D. Disabilities Advocacy Consortium Board of Directors, Bismarck Cuts to Medicaid would have serious consequences for North Dakotans, threatening access to health care and services. This would place additional burdens on families, healthcare providers, and the economy. Currently in ND, the federal government pays 51% of the cost of traditional Medicaid and 90% of the cost of Medicaid Expansion. Therefore, changes in Medicaid could result in fewer services and fewer caregivers. Medicaid is ...

Education Savings Accounts are win-win for ND residents

Jordan Wald Minot Legislators are considering Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) for North Dakota students. ESAs use parent-directed state dollars to select educational services from approved vendors. Several outcomes are expected from an ESA program: greater parental autonomy over their children’s education, better outcomes for students, and more efficient use of tax-payer dollars through a more robust educational marketplace. If North Dakota has a relatively homogenous educational landscape with very few options for parents and children, we shouldn’t be surprised. This comes ...

Legislators need to leave constitutional term limits alone

Lianne Zeltinger Minot Article XV (15) of our State Constitution relating to term limits was passed into law with the vote of 63% or a super majority of the voters in November 2022. On February 20, 2023, nine members from the House and three members from the Senate co-sponsored HCR 30319 which was an attempt to overturn or “correct” term limits. It passed the House but failed in the Senate. Now in 2025 two Resolutions were introduced within a day or so of the deadline for bringing forth resolutions from the House and Senate. The first reading for the SCR 4028 was on ...

Right to Read defends freedom

Janet Anderson Burlington Right to Read ND is a nonpartisan group of parents and citizens dedicated to defending North Dakotans’ right to access information freely and without discrimination. We believe in safeguarding the freedom to read and ensuring library and school collections reflect our communities’ diversity. We trust teachers and librarians to curate collections responsibly. For the past two months, we’ve fought against SB 2307, which threatens free speech, removes local control, and criminalizes teachers and librarians. Despite strong opposition from 150 North ...

Silence over hurtful actions speaks volumes

Catherine Benton Grand Forks I watched and listened closely to the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing for SCR 3013. As the hearing wrapped up, Senator Luick claimed not to know a single legislator with the intent to harm others. Yet, how can they ignore the pain caused by singling out an entire community? How can they justify sending a resolution to the highest court in the United States, declaring that same-sex marriages are such an abomination that the Supreme Court “got it wrong”? This resolution sends a clear message: the LGBTQIA+ community does not deserve the right to ...

Legislators are attacking public schools

Vicki Voldal Rosenau Valley City Our North Dakota public schools are under attack. The attackers are the pro-privatization legislators who are pushing for a radical change to our state’s educational system that will have dire consequences, especially for small and rural communities. Forcing all taxpayers to fund private and charter schools would drain public resources. Worse, it would drastically damage North Dakota’s small-town way-of-life, and likely force the closure of small public schools that serve as the hearts of our communities. Some privatization promoters are ...