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Opinion

Folk music duo shows cultures in harmony

National Columnists

Larry and Joe performed for my son’s school last week. They were on tour with just one public show in Louisville, Kentucky, but they took time to visit four local schools. After my son saw them play, he begged me to go to their concert. Larry and Joe’s website described their band as a ...

Lack of homeless shelter creates crisis

Letters to the Editor

Jerrand Assibey, Minot I am writing to express deep concern over Minot’s ongoing failure to address a critical public safety crisis — the complete lack of a shelter for homeless and temporarily displaced residents. It is deeply troubling that an oil-rich city like Minot has not taken the ...

Protect Medicaid from harmful cuts

Letters to the Editor

Julie Horntvedt, Executive director, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, on behalf of N.D. Disabilities Advocacy Consortium Board of Directors, Bismarck Cuts to Medicaid would have serious consequences for North Dakotans, threatening access to health care and services. This would ...

Legislature looks to help hungry students

Local Columnists

I am writing to communicate and affirm the North Dakota Legislature’s historical and ongoing commitment to ensuring no student goes hungry during the school day. In 2023, a significant step was taken with the passage of House Bill 1494. The “no-shaming” bill guaranteed every child in ...

Why does it matter who shot JFK?

National Columnists

This week, the Trump administration released tens of thousands of documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Speculation about the “real explanation” for JFK’s assassination has been an enormous cottage industry for decades; as of November 2023, a Gallup poll ...

Is there due process for all, or none?

National Columnists

President Trump is using an 18th-century law - the Alien Enemies Act- to justify the deportation of hundreds of people he says are members of a vicious Venezuelan gang. That law was last used during World War II by the Roosevelt administration to justify the internment of Japanese Americans. ...