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Property tax group turns in signatures

Steven Moen, Minot The Unfair End Property Tax Group turned in 40,592 signatures to the Secretary of State Office to put End Unfair Property Tax on the ballot this fall. This is over 9,000 signatures more than were required. This is amazing as 85% of the signatures were gathered by volunteers, which is largely unheard of in this state. The opposition is already getting ready to scare everyone into voting against it just like they did in 2012 and now just as then the makeup of the opposition is telling. Calling themselves “Keep it Local,” which is the last thing on their minds ...

Handling of public money needs accountability

Leon Mallberg Dickinson There‘s a claim that we have a two-tiered legal system, one for the elites, ruling class and some politicians and another for the rest of us. Lo and behold, this can be said of North Dakota. In Richland County the Water Board Secretary had a warrant out for her arrest for misusing public money. The warrant was for misusing up to $10,000 dollars. There is an appropriate word for that – CRIMINAL. To the west in Sargent County, the Water Board completed a $4,500,000, 4.5 mile “Drain # 11” Improvement Project. The North Dakota Supreme Court on December ...

Lack of ‘Plan B’ lets athletes down

Gary Schell Stanley This is my first ever “letter to the editor.” I’ve coached Boys Golf (7-12), Football (7-8), Girls and Boys Track (7-8), Boys and Girls Basketball (7-12) at various times for 37 years. My concern is the lack of a secondary plan when weather becomes a main factor at a State-sponsored event. In the last two-plus weeks the North Dakota High School Activities Association “forced” North Dakota Boys and Girls athletes to perform during adverse weather in Bismarck (State A & B Track), in Carrington (State B Boys Golf) and in Grand Forks (State A Boys ...

Consider facts about property taxes

Fred W. Evans, Stanley I’m Fred Evans, chairman of the board for Brookbank Township, and I’d like to share some important facts about property taxes in Mountrail County, North Dakota, which may be similar to the situation in your area. The primary concern often revolves around property taxes on our homes, but there’s a much larger picture to consider. In Mountrail County, Marathon Oil has a sizable gas plant south of Stanley along ND Highway 8, with an assessed value of $5,080,700.00, making it the highest on the list of centrally assessed properties from our tax office. This ...

End unfair property taxes in ND

Steven Moen, Minot I won’t vote for any politician who does NOT support Ending Unfair Property Tax. I was in the U.S. Navy, in a submarine group that was instrumental in winning the Cold War, known as 41 for freedom as we had 41 Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines that continually prowled the ocean depths, always ready to launch our nuclear missiles. Thankfully, we were never called upon to do this. According to what a Russian leader said, we were the main reason they lost the Cold War. They knew where our bombers and land-based missiles were but couldn’t find our FBM submarines. ...

Can politics be positive?

Faye Seidler, Moorhead, Minn. I work in suicide prevention, which is work that focuses on hope. While we often think about this topic in regard to mental health, it’s so much broader than that. It’s how we feel connected to our community or not, our access to resources or opportunities, and how we feel about the future. Politics is an important sector of suicide prevention, but one we often don’t talk about. I surveyed every candidate in North Dakota that provided an email and is listed on the Secretary of State website. I asked them how likely their work would focus on ...