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End unfair property taxes

Steven Moen, Minot Looking at “Ending Unfair Property Tax” historically we find that these very same taxes along with others were what sparked the Revolutionary War back in 1775. We celebrate this great fight for liberty each year on July 4th but I wonder should people, who are adamantly against Ending Unfair Property Tax, celebrate this great patriotic holiday when their beliefs align with the Tories, who wanted to remain under English law and taxes. They even fought against the patriots who fought to end these taxes and slavery they suffered under English rule. We are ...

Climate crisis policy is fad, lacks basis

Patricia Marquard Minot What I have always known to be true is finally getting some recognition by scientists. The Climate Crisis idea has been grasped by many. I don’t know why because I have lived long enough to know that this year’s catastrophes and weather has happened before. I have lived through the gray atmosphere of Gary, Indiana, steel mills, and the exhaust of factorie during the 1970’s to know that the climate is much what it was then. There is a petition signed by 16,000 scientists, including a Nobel winner in Physics, stating that the climate changes every ...

Principles, values unite us

Sandra Sanford, NDGOP Chair, Bismarck On my way to the RNC summer meeting and Presidential debate in Milwaukee via Dallas made for a long day and gave me some time for reflection. It struck me how we can find ourselves in the most unlikely places. This can be said about my new position as NDGOP Chair. Starting a cotmpany, planning a wedding, supporting aging parents and two kids at home make for a full plate in addition to this amazing opportunity. I am a 4th generation North Dakotan, a daughter of a rancher girl and a farm boy who became an oilman. I’m the mother of three and ...

What vengeance?

Kari L. Conrad, Glen Ullin I was surprised by one Minot area Republican’s comments in a recent Minot Daily News article about the presidential candidate debate. There were the usual candidate horse race observations and the concerns about party unity after a primary election, but then ... Roger Neshem talked about the “vengeance a lot of [Trump supporters] feel”. VENGEANCE??? Vengeance is a punishment inflicted or extracted because of severe injury. I know we live in dynamic political times, but I don’t see Republicans, especially MAGA Republicans, being severely ...

Get involved: climate movement needs you

Ron Sadler, Carrington So, you are concerned about the Climate Crisis and are not sure what to do about it. Know that you are not alone. Also know that the Climate Movement needs you. It needs everyone to do everything we can to address this crisis. Here are some ideas: – Learn more about how our world is warming; the causes, consequences and actions that need to be taken to stop it. Start by visiting NASA’s website on climate. https://climate.nasa.gov. – Talk about it, a lot, with friends, family, neighbors, everybody and anybody. – Get involved; join a climate group ...

Join ND senators in supporting American veterans

Frank Larkin, COO, Troops First Foundation, Chair, Warrior Call, Mt. Airy, Md. New data from the CDC shows that suicide rates in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2022. Nearly 50,000 of our brothers and sisters died by suicide last year alone. As troubling as those numbers undoubtedly are, consider that veterans in this country – men and women who admirably served and protected us – die by suicide at a rate 60 percent higher than the general population. In other words, within the overall tragic number, a significant number of those deaths are veterans, not on battlefields ...