In an age of fiery hyper-partisanship driven by intractable wedge issues, to be a centrist or anyone politically agnostic is to be left between a rock and a hard place, both of which are dying to squish you for daring to be caught in the middle. While the culture war rages on, the day-to-day ...

The drumbeat for abolishing student debt is growing as students and former students feel the financial crunch of poor employment and increasing inflation. Forty five million (45,000,000) Americans owe $1.6 trillion ($1,600,000,000) for federal student loans. But there is a lot of hidden ...

Seven years later, we look back on May 15, 2015, as an important date in the history of downtown Minot. Why? That’s the day construction began on the three-year, approximately $34.75 million Downtown Infrastructure Improvement Project. That’s the day concrete in part of the intersection ...

May being Mental Health Awareness month, it seems appropriate for us to confront an issue that eludes our attention until it strikes home. It is odd that mental health has become a major problem in a country flowing with money and professionalism, both essential for attacking the problem. ...

A lot of people in the Grand Forks area are looking with suspicion at the proposal from a Chinese company offering to build a massive corn-milling plant on the windward side of town. Critics have a number of legitimate concerns but the fear of communism has been pronounced. The “red ...

We have reached many completed milestones in the ongoing effort to build the Mouse River Enhanced Flood Control project, as Minot and its partners continue the monumental task of protecting the residents of the Souris River Basin. Last week’s ribbon-cutting marking the substantial ...