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Issue is not property tax fairness

Bob McNamara, Upham The amendment being advocated is titled Unfair Property taxes. I wonder how they can be unfair when the people you elected are the ones who passed those taxes. Whatever taxing authority you wish to refer to, they are people you elected and placed in a position to establish the tax base. It would certainly be more honest to say they didn’t do want you wanted by allowing certain people who own buildings to not pay property taxes on renovations, or allowing builders to not pay property taxes on places they may have built or allowing certain military retirees to ...

MSU performance offered special treat

Anna Marie Shomento, Minot Recently, a friend and I attended the MSU production of the musical, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” The performance was so professional that I felt as though I were sitting in a concert hall in Minneapolis, Chicago, or some other large city. The city of Minot has so much talent. The acting, singing, choreography, staging and orchestra were outstanding. Congratulations to the stage director, Sarah Belfrage Honerman, and the music director, Abbie Eads, as well as everyone else involved in the production. If you did not attend the performance, you missed ...

CO2 pipeline is dangerous proposal

Gaylynn Becker, Bismarck Why would citizens of Bismarck, Burleigh, Emmons and Logan County as well as counties west of the Missouri River want a dangerous supercritical CO2 pipeline running near their communities? Summit Carbons Solutions (SCS) says the pipeline is safe. I agree, it’s safe for those who live out of state like most SCS executives and employees. The CO2 pipeline that ruptured near Satartia, Mississippi, in February 2020 had people collapsing as far away as 16 miles from the pipeline rupture. This break was caused due to ground movement due to a lot of rain. That ...

Reasons not to vote for Trump are false

Steven Moen, Minot It was stated last week that Christians can’t vote for Trump, with a bunch of scripture verses to defend his position. Satan can quote scripture with the best of them and the fact that no mention of not voting for Biden makes me wonder. Most of why we shouldn’t vote for Trump are all made up reasons and the application of Lavrently Beria, Stalin’s secret police chief, standard operating procedure, “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” This is what the left has been doing to Trump and his followers since before he was elected in 2016 and has ...

Campaigns take ND into sinkhole

James Maxson, Minot Let’s give Lt. Governor Miller and Congressman Armstrong both the benefit of the doubt by stipulating that neither of them are liars. Miller’s negative ads are more or less saying that Armstrong can’t be trusted to be North Dakota’s next governor. Armstrong’s negative ads are more or less saying that Miller can’t be trusted to be North Dakota’s next governor. Obscene amounts of money are being spent, reflecting lack of North Dakota nice. Living here in harmony is an antidote to our less than harmonious weather. Would it not be rational to ...

Christians should not want to follow Trump

Michael Williams, Minot Who? Who is claiming to be a Christian and yet still follows and supports Donald Trump? Do we not know that God hates haughty eyes, a lying tongue, a false witness, and one who spreads strife among brothers? Proverbs 6:16–19. Do we not see that Trump is a false witness who spreads strife while displaying haughty eyes and a lying tongue openly every day? How? How does he have so many so-called evangelicals fooled into believing he is for Christ? Do we not see that his speech is full of lies? Do we not see that his lifestyle and conduct are openly against ...