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Giving is good for ND’s economy

Edana Kitzmann, Minot I just read the Feb. 10, 2024, article in The Minot Daily News of “Giving Hearts Day” numbers since the inception of such campaign, from 2008 into 2024, and that approximate dollars are nearly $195 million before official statistics are released. And that $29 million from this year’s campaign indicates about $3 million more than last year – from 40,644 donors. I believe each donor (that I applaud and am grateful for) donates of their own money and of their own volition and desire. Also, I believe those dollars are used by the more than 600 charities to ...

More convenience, creativity needed

Bette Wold, Plaza Vitalent calls me repeatedly requesting I give platelets/blood. I pay for labs for an annual checkup. I am not charged to donate blood. So….when we get stuck with a needle for our annual checkup – couldn’t we sit the extra 10 minutes to give a donation and save insurance money – and no repeated testing! Win win. And it’s hard to offer the time to give platelets, but had I been asked to donate while I visited an incarcerated person, I would have gladly done it then – give a sense of worth to incarcerated and the visitor while they spend the time ...

Value of polls lies in their use

James Maxson, Minot Polls are somewhat similar to a carpenter’s tool. They are as valuable as the skills of the artisan utilizing them. I recall a very pleasant one on one dinner in 1995 with the head of a “special interest” group based out of Washington, D.C. My dinner companion was a self-made man, who due to talent, hard work and the luck of having been born in the USA, had lifted himself up from rural poverty to someone who could afford to live in Aspen, Colorado. His organization had done a number of polls to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of various ...

Politics has gone to the birds

Ron Schmidt, Tolna Donald Trump. Joe Biden, So this is what we call DeMOCKracy. Give me the smoke-filled room, the place where policy, not rhetoric, prevails, the nuts and bolts of how things are to be done. Last week my sister-in-law and her sister stopped in for a visit. They had been our braving the elements, “Birding.” I’m thinking they could have done so from the warmth of the living room. Just turn on the TV. See Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, a turkey or ostrich, with his head in the sand and a dodo. Donald Trump and whomever. A rooster, more accurately a peacock, ...

Support should go to base load providers

Clint Feland, Bismarck All new “Clean or Green” energy projects should have to provide documentation from all existing coal or other historic base load energy providers with the effect their project will have on the existing base load infrastructure and profitability. If they have a negative effect on the base load suppliers, they will have to provide the suppliers with an equal percentage of any subsidy they receive based on their comparable output. If the “green energy” project being subsidized or considered for construction is owned by the base load provider, then ...

U.S. has long history of immigration concern

Bob NcNamara, Upham Ellis Island opened in 1892. However, immigration had been with us long before that. It was in 1917 that the Immigration Act of 1917 was passed which limited immigration from most Asian countries. Immigration was again addressed in the 1924 Immigration Act which put quotas from countries and just about eliminated immigration from Asian countries. Coincidentally, the first mention of illegal immigration occurs in 1924 and the border patrol is established to crack down on illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican and Canadian borders. Think about that — 100 years ...