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Get behind USPS workers

Yves Gagnon , Minot Like many other areas in this country and maybe in the world, manpower is now a difficult reality. As with the Covid, we will have no choice to cope with this fact. As a community, we have to be behind our USPS worker and accept that our mail distribution will be chaotic for the months ahead. Personally, I will suggest that the delivery in the residential area be only twice a week. Like this, a postman or postwoman can cover easily 2 or even 3 sectors per week. In fact, are we so in a rush to get the pizza flyers or this other request for money? As long we ...

Scientist offers case for hope

M L Berg , Minot At a conference held in Bismarck on Columbus Day – also Indigenous Peoples’ Day — our Lt. Gov. said that the oil and gas industry had the means to solve the climate change crisis. Really? Why didn’t he say that the Big Bad Wolf ought to be placed in charge of the Three Little Pigs, while he was at it? It just doesn’t make sense. Joelle Gergis is a scientist who has investigated climate change for decades. She is now a professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. She writes primarily for an Australian ...

Thoughts on ballot measures

James Maxson , Minot One of the measures on the ballot this November regards term limits for state legislators. At first glance, it looks like an intramural battle between conventional Republicans and angry Republicans. Since I don’t have a dog in that fight, I look to an old-fashioned method of decision making, evidence. Two states which have enacted similar term limits are Arizona and California. It is quite obvious that the California legislature has swung too far to the left and that the Arizona legislature has swung too far to the right. Are these two states the prototype of ...

Vote to defeat marijuana legalization

Martin Graner , Minot I have had the privilege to work with hundreds of people that were having lots of problems in their lives. The problems were from drugs, alcohol, sexual, etc. I am a social worker. In 90% plus of the problems, marijuana was involved. People who were well when I first met them, well motivated and had goals went downhill after they used marijuana. My experiences in the last 60 years tell me that marijuana is a death sentence for people. In the last 60 plus years, marijuana (cannabis) has become more potent and harmful, with its average ...

Bob Wefald , Bismarck Recreational marijuana was a very bad idea four years ago when it was soundly defeated, and it is still a very bad idea. Nothing has changed in four years to make recreational marijuana a better choice for the people of North Dakota. Although the marijuana advocates try to sell us a bill of goods of inevitably, they still do not have the support of the majority of North Dakota voters. Their claim that recreational marijuana was approved by the legislature in 2021 is simply false. The fact one chamber fell for the argument of recreational marijuana does not ...

Rep. Clayton Fegley , Berthold I am writing about measure 2, legalizing recreational marijuana, that you will be voting on in November, and I urge you to vote NO! Recreational marijuana, “it is not a safe drug.” And to legalize in North Dakota, it will change our culture. Once again outside interests are funding the ND legalization group with more than $520,000.00 from the New Approach Advocacy Fund and the Marijuana Policy project, both Washington, D.C.-based pro-pot groups looking to see this happen in ND. Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC for short, attacks the brain and is a ...