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Letters to the Editor

What’s not to like?

Diane Zander Minot Two weeks early voting. Vote by mail if you want. Register the same day. Paper trail for all ballots. An end to gerrymandering. Transparency, and safety for election officials. Election Day as a holiday. We have heard for many years how sad it is that more US citizens ...

Advice to county commission

Tyler Hancock Minot This is going to be short, but I have a suggestion for the Ward County Commission: put your money where your mouth is. If you plan to pass a resolution banning federal COVID-19 restrictions, then send back the $13 million from ARPA. If you are so dead set on avoiding ...

More money needed for child care

Amanda Olson Anamoose My husband and I farm and we raise our young family in rural Anamoose, ND. As parents of a one year old little girl, we relate very closely to the child care crisis facing so many more families across the state. The North Dakota KIDS COUNT Child Care Access Report ...

Breathtaking failure or the intended deconstruction of America?

Andrew Allis Granville This administration, in just 9 short months, has so weakened and debased this country in every venue possible that in evaluating what has taken place in this short time, we appear to be looking at a binary choice between this being either the most incompetent ...

Invest in child care now

Amy Jacobson Executive Director Prairie Action ND Fargo, ND One billion dollars. That is the amount of federal dollars provided to the state of North Dakota through the American Rescue Plan Act for post-pandemic relief. Child care is at the forefront of the lives of working families in ...

Is it in our DNA?

Dan Reinhard, Minot In a letter to James Madison, regarding the Shays’ Rebellion (Aug 1786-Feb 1787) by armed farmers in Massachusetts, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the ...