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Letters to the Editor

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 ...

Thank you to city workers

Jeannie Sovak Minot On Tuesday evening, as I was coming home at 9:30 pm after being gone, West Central Avenue was blocked off and I could not get into my driveway. There were heavy equipment machines and trucks parked all around my house. I walked up to a worker in a city pickup to ask ...

Attention mineral owners with coal leases

Troy Coons NWLA Chairman The Northwest Landowners Association (NWLA) hopes to raise awareness of House Bill 1459 and its potential serious consequences for your mineral rights. HB 1459 provides a framework for the development and permitting of critical minerals and rare earth elements, ...