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Help is here for veterans in crisis

Ty Hegland - CEO, Prairie St. John’s, Fargo With September being Suicide Prevention Month, I wanted to take a minute to highlight transformative legislation to serve one of our most important patient populations, veterans. In January, The COMPACT Act went into effect across the U.S. and dramatically improved accessibility for mental health services for veterans. The act allows all honorably discharged veterans who are experiencing a suicidal crisis to go to any mental healthcare facility for no-cost treatment. Veterans do not need to be enrolled to use this benefit. The ...

Urgent plea for safer skies for aerial applicators

Brianne Osowski, Lynn Johnson, owner, Johnson Airspray - Grafton In the heartland of America, aerial applicators like my brother, Tylor Lee Johnson, dance a delicate balance between the earth and sky. Their mission ensures our tables remain abundant, yet the profession is fraught with unseen dangers — dangers that took Tylor from us last week. Tragically, another aerial hero faced a similar fate just a week later, marking the 10th fatality in 2023. These brave pilots play a pivotal role in our state’s economy and our daily lives. Every year, aerial application pilots treat ...

Ponder this when encountering funeral processions

Rev. Dr. Matthew Richard - Minot In North Dakota, funeral processions have the right-of-way at all intersections, implying processions can run red lights and drive through stop lights. But why? Funeral processions are given special treatment to show respect for the deceased and compassion to mourners. Tragically, though, in the last 20 years, respect and compassion have waned regarding funeral processions. Where vehicles once used to pull over with flashers, funeral processions are now met with insensitive frustrated looks, impatient and aggressive passing, or careless ...

Stop speaking up, start demanding

Gary Berube - Mandan Millions of illegal immigrants have been and are being encouraged to enter the United States illegally by the Biden administration. Now the Biden administration is planning to provide those people with photo identification cards which will allow them to vote. This will provide the Democrats with enough illegal votes to control the people in the entire United States. Congress has been silent for the last 3 years and has done nothing! As for me I will not be silenced, nor will I submit! Our freedoms have been fought for and protected by the best! We have a duty ...

Property taxes should be abolished

A.R. Allex - Minot The city of Fargo has a 120 million dollar budget. The city of Minot has close to a 200 million budget. Think about this! Minot’s idea of property tax relief is to raise your taxes not as much as they really wanted to. The citizens of ND will be able to vote on property taxes and I urge all voters to vote for abolishing property taxes.

Citizens deserve better than corporate greed

Brandon Meidinger, President, on behalf of McIntosh County Farmers Union Board, Fredonia Last week Lynn Helms, the head of the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, shamelessly peddled to the media a contradictory agenda that reeks of corporate greed and disregard for the well-being of farmers, ranchers, and public safety. Helms’ claim that pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere is somehow necessary to repressurize the Bakken oil formation is a thinly veiled excuse to cater to the insatiable appetites of corporate greed. Worse yet, the calculated timing of his statement, ...