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Cramer is right to stand with Tuberville

Rory Gabel, Vice Chair, District 24 Republicans, Valley City I’d like to respond to the letter to the editor written by Katrina Christiansen, printed in papers around the state, blasting Senator Tuberville (R-Ala.), who is “blocking the military promotions of 250 general and admiral nominees.” I kept reading and thought it would have been nice if Christiansen would have told us why Tuberville was doing this. In researching the matter, I found out what she was leaving out. It turns out that it’s over President Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recent decision to ...

Board takes wrong approach on teacher shortage

Nick Archuleta, President, North Dakota United, Bismarck The ND Education Standards and Practices Board (ESPB) held an emergency meeting on Thursday, July 27. The purpose of this “emergency meeting” was to seek authorization to send a letter to Governor Doug Burgum asking him to declare an emergency related to an urgent teacher shortage in North Dakota. ESPB Executive Director Dr. Rebecca Pitkin declared that the shortage of teachers has created an “imminent peril” that threatens to disrupt the welfare of public education in the 2023-2024 school year. No one doubts that we ...

Throw off shackles of tax slavery

Steven Moen, Minot I find it incredulous that some prominent property rights advocates who are so called champions of people’s property rights miss the most egregious attack on property rights which is property tax. Property tax affects every citizen in the state, not just the property owners who are fighting the CO2 pipeline. Property tax increases operating costs for all businesses and farmers which causes the prices of goods that we all buy to increase also. It also reduces the buying power of all citizens as we have to pay the government for the privilege to live in the homes ...

Lesson of Watergate still timely

M L Berg, Minot Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1973, congressional hearings were being held concerning the Watergate scandal that occurred on the orders of then President Richard Nixon. A break-in had occurred at the Democratic National Committee’s offices at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972. As a result of congressional investigations, 69 people were indicted and 48 were convicted. During the same year, Charles Reich wrote a newspaper article for the New York Times giving his take on this scandal. Charles Reich was a law professor at ...

Where will city’s 85% come from?

Edana Kitzmann, Minot On June 10, 2023, there was a statement made that 85% of budget money (I believe from property taxes) goes for emergency services, such as law enforcement, etc. Where will that 85%, dollars, come from (if not from property taxes) to cover the line item of emergency services? If you believe a volunteer (without pay) for budgeted emergency services works, I would like you to cite any principality in American that has one like that and that it works for the common and greater good of the people who live or visit that principality or rural area. My belief is ...

Servant leader will be missed

J. Patrick Traynor, Executive Director, Dakota Medical Foundation, Fargo The Fourth of July was a bittersweet day this year for all of us at Dakota Medical Foundation. While we were celebrating Independence Day with friends and family, we got the news that our region lost one of its most outstanding servant leaders. Sister Mary Louise Jundt passed away at the age of 92 following a lifetime of service to others. I looked up to her from the moment I met her. She personified everything good in the world and so much of what I believe society lacks today: devotion, sacrifice, ...