Roger Stonefeld, Minot As a citizen of Minot I pay attention to the best of my ability on local government issues. Lately I have read in the paper that there are once again talks among our city council of attempting to substantially raise taxes, this time I believe to pay for “first ...
Patricia Marquard, Minot This letter should have been written a long time ago. Procrastination is the excuse. It is never too late to recognize leadership in the younger generation. Josiah Roise ran an excellent campaign for the mayor position in Minot. Jantzer, the winning candidate, had ...
PARIS — U.S. President Donald Trump got so fed up with the Pentagon calling itself the “Defense Department” that he decided it needed a makeover. Apparently “defense” sounded a little too yoga-retreaty for his taste. “We had an unbelievable history of victory when it was ...
I had a different column planned for this week — on the same topic that’s in the title, as it so happens. But not five minutes before I sat down to write it, I heard that conservative commentator and speaker Charlie Kirk had been shot in the neck at a speaking event in Utah. Before I ...
The West Point Association of Graduates announced on June 11 that movie actor Tom Hanks would receive this year’s Sylvanus Thayer Award at a ceremony and parade this month hosted by the U.S. Military Academy. The award goes “to an outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and ...
In her response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city’s mayor demonstrated the mindset that allowed the heinous act to happen in the first place. Mayor Vi Lyles called the murder of the young Ukraine refugee woman, “a tragic ...