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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 ...

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 ...