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Twitter, the Bidens, and ‘Disinformation’

At the end of April, the Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress that his agency was in the process of starting a “Disinformation Governance Board” to take on disinformation and misinformation in the lead up to the midterm elections. The timing of this ...

Time to go beyond partisanship

Well, we’re at it again. It seems that in the case of Sen. Ray Homberg many are rushing to judgment without knowing the circumstances of his sin. According to former students, Ray Holmberg was an excellent Grand Forks teacher. In addition to teaching, he served the State of North Dakota in ...

Tush warmer to start a robin becca

"This here emergency meeting is called because Little Jimmy thinks he can make our town a spring Mecca for the flocks of robins that come in freezing weather,” Chairperson Ork Dorken announced as he looked over the 11 electors that made up the Community Homeland Committee. The other two ...

Grim outlook after conventions

The 2022 election season has kicked off, and the situation for both parties in North Dakota is more fraught than some would like to admit. The Democratic-NPL sputtered out of the gate at the end of March, putting up candidates in only 19 of the 35 districts on the ballot this cycle. The ...

American producer, not ‘free’ money, can fix inflation

"For the past 15 months of Joe Biden’s tenure as president of the United States, we’ve seen an increase in inflation every month. The rise began before Putin invaded Ukraine and before every other excuse the president has posited. When Biden took office in January 2021, inflation was 1.4 ...

Convenience isn’t always covered

Picture this: you open an app, place an order, and it then gets delivered to your front door in a short amount of time. It’s becoming more and more common across the world because of its convenience. Many of you, and the people we know, are becoming delivery drivers, joining millions of ...