Robert Timm, Minot What a spineless City Council we have. The council room was filled to standing room only and when Council Woman Carrie Evans saw it she turned tail and ran giving the rest of the council a wonderful excuse that they didn’t want to vote without the full council. ...

Edana Kitzman, Minot My apology for not knowing of a 1976 committee in Minot, ND, that its agenda was to alleviate discriminatory practices in employment. I will add that not knowing that it existed means that I did not know it had been disbanded also. Finding out in the news articles and ...

Mark C. Peterson, Bismarck The United States is skating down a slippery slope of an electricity reliability crisis and the Environmental Protection Agency is greasing the skids. As the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources heard grave warnings that the U.S. is headed for a ...

Duane Brekke, Minot How do you spell coward? Evans. Monday evening I was requested to attend the city council meeting at 5:30. Not having been in the new chambers, I went a little early. Carrie Evans and I arrived at the same time. We both saw the large number of people already in ...

Lianne Zeltinger, Minot Monday evening was the fourth meeting that included Ordinance 5840 on the agenda. And, again the vote was delayed until the next meeting. That is quite unusual for any item. Something close would be an ad hoc committee providing monthly updates. But, even those are ...

Gene Modin, Bismarck Do not wait for the teachers colleges to change anything. They like it the way it is. They like the results. The current method of reading instruction called by various names, such as look-say, see and say, whole word, whole language or balanced literacy have very ...