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Vote after careful consideration

Gary E. Berube , Mandan What to do before you vote. Remember who opened the border, defunded the police, allowed crime to run rampant, paid people more to stay at home than to work, increased inflation and gas prices the highest ever, stopped our oil production, depleted our emergency oil reserves. The open border has allowed 2 million plus illegal votes to come in and to receive free education, health, housing and food at taxpayer expense. Defunding police has encouraged and allowed crime. Stopping oil production made us dependent on foreign oil. Our emergency oil reserves are for a ...

Fuel crisis shows change is needed

Steven Moen Minot We just watched Tucker Carlson tell us how it is quite possible that the US runs out of diesel fuel in just 25 days. So I sent this letter to Hoeven. Whether it is just a 25 day surplus or we’re actually going to run out in 25 days I don’t know but either way I want to know why we haven’t heard anything from you on this issue or maybe you don’t think it’s important.  I think it is something you should be shouting from the house tops as loud as you can to wake everyone up to the pending danger of dying this winter or maybe you’re all caught up ...

Term Limits Will Wipe Out Experience

Carma Hanson , NDGOP 2nd Vice-Chairwoman , Grand Forks The backers of term limits certainly have a compelling case giving the politicians an expiration date. I fear, however, that my fellow North Dakotans are being misled by an out-of-state spending campaign that will ultimately harm our great record of leadership. For that reason, I urge voters to reject Measure #1 on the ballot this November. There are many parts of governing that aren’t exactly glamorous: hearings, bill drafting, and navigating government bureaucracy. When we involuntarily replace the individuals most familiar ...

Vote yes on Measure 2

Eric Johnson , Minot With the upcoming election less than two weeks away, I would like to talk politics. Before opening a local brewery, I was a teacher. I want to share an experience I had, that I believe is relevant to current politics.  Back in the 2016 legislative season, one of the topics at the time was medical cannabis. I ended up traveling to Bismarck to testify to the state legislation in favor of the bill. I have many reasons for doing this. One reason is growing up with a father who was fighting cancer multiple times, and I know it would have helped him. There are many ...

Cost of living compounded by discrimination

Edana Kitzmann , Minot Yes, there have always been social functions in the community to do when someone does not have to work six days out of seven (in a week) to survive, with church on Sunday. Survival means pay the rent, food, transportation, medical expenses (when there is no insurance), household bills (whether buying or renting a home), etc. (even with a spouse or roommate). Why would someone have to pay for all of that? Because that is what living is about (in America). Having diversions and/or distractions from the reality of low wages, lack of employee benefits, high rent ...

Vote yes on term limits

Bob McNamara , Upham There was a time I believed we had term limits. It was called voting someone out of office if they were not effective. However, money in politics made that a myth. I’ve seen plenty opposed to the term limits measure and often the cry seems to be to not let out of state influencers impact your vote. I’ve yet to see anyone name those out of state influencers but I have seen the names of those who oppose the measure. They are the legislators who get to stay in Bismarck. They are the lobbyists who have built influence with the legislators who get to stay in ...