The numbers surrounding military and veteran related suicides are troublesome no matter whether in North Dakota or other states. The Department of Veterans Affairs reports that across the country 6,261 veterans took their own lives in 2019 – the most recent data available. The rate of ...

Early in my career at The Minot Daily News, I wrote a column bemoaning the state of North Dakota politics. Between the rancor growing in the ranks of the GOP and the Dem-NPL’s descent into irrelevance due to the toxicity of the national party, the situation seemed bleak. I prescribed a ...

I n July 2020, I wrote a column in The Minot Daily News about the early stages of our fundraising campaign to renovate Minot State University’s Summer Theatre Amphitheater. At that time we were focused on a renovation costing approximately $1.5 million. Fast forward 26 months with a radically ...

Baltimore newspaperman H.L. Mencken once said that the trouble with fighting for human freedom, was that you often had to fight on the behalf of scoundrels and those less savory or civil. It is hard to stick up for scoundrels, especially today as they are the chief targets of culture ...

There are very few American political figures more intertwined in Presidential history than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and in the shadow of the January 6th Committee hearings, the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago has brought the whole sorry saga full circle in an infuriatingly ironic way. ...

M y cover has been outed. A friend said he Googled me and discovered that I was older than dirt. Since it may not be dirt from the Garden of Eden, the cat is out of the bag and the truth must be told. I was born prematurely and have been on a dead run since. It was during the Great ...