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Fentanyl data should spur action

Sen. David Hogue, Minot I wanted to thank The Minot Daily News for keeping your readers informed and maintaining the public spotlight on the proliferation of illegal sales and distribution of fentanyl in northwest North Dakota. The growing problem has largely escaped regular public scrutiny, and your persistence in reporting on those individuals who are selling this dangerous drug in our region is an important public service. I am convinced regular focus on this scourge is part of addressing the problem. How big a problem is fentanyl? Well, we’ve been presented with data that ...

Minot has spineless city council

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. Councilman Pitner was also absent, but this was already known to the Mayor, and I would assume the rest of the council. I hope you understand this, Carrie Evans did not like facing her constituents. Evidently she only wants to represent certain members of her constituency, not her full constituency much ...

Dialogue on discrimination is good

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 TV news that reorganizing such a committee is being considered was in “real time” news to me! It is wonderful to see such interest of the proposed committee, for and against, and that it has been conducted in a civil manner, yet voicing each opinion publicly. Open dialogue is necessary, ...

EPA attempts to undercut electricity reliability

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 “catastrophic” electricity reliability situation, the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) drafted proposed plans to shut down or further limit baseload generation such as electricity from coal. Given the current nationwide coal retirement assumptions, upwards of 55% ...

Cowardice guides wimpy council

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 attendance. I saw her go up to her desk. The mayor called the meeting to order promptly at 5:30. Evans was not at her desk. When the mayor called for discussion on councilwoman Olson’s tabled motion on the “Human Relations Committee” amendments, approximately ten people spoke in support of ...

Ordinance advocates hurt their cause

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 not included on the agenda for an actual vote until the committee is ready to present its final version. So now, there will be a full two-month delay regarding this ordinance. There is nothing stopping the advocates of this ordinance from privately funding and creating a group whose specific ...