Working within federal or state regulation processes is not an easy thing to do. Under the best of circumstances, it can be ponderous. Which is why City of Minot progress on the downtown gathering space project is a good sign. From the City of Minot: The City of Minot on Friday sent the ...
"We got to get somebody down to that legislature,” asserted Orville Jordan as he burst into the town’s converted ZCBJ hall for a meeting of the Homeland Security Committee. All 12 of the other city electors were huddled around the old heater close to the stage. Orville was a retired depot ...
Bob Ziegler Minot So, a bunch of white boys, wearing racist hats, are taunted by some blacks. In retaliation, the white boys, whose school mascot is an Indian, (so of course they respect and tolerate other races) begin chanting and mockingly dancing, which upsets the elders, all because the ...
As of this writing, it is cold but sunny and by local standards, darn pleasant. How different my perspective on little things like weather have become in over three years now in North Dakota! We talked about weather and the relativity of “nice” a lot this week. Along with my veteran ...
Craig Argabright Minot Is true journalism dead? Where are the journalists that search the news, follow up, and answer the questions, who, what, where, when, and why? Where are the journalists that would research the topic and then report the complete truth rather than take a bit out ...
— Promotes workforce and physician recruitment. — Maximizes staff and physician efficiency and productivity. — Integrates state of the art diagnostic technology. — Facilitates physician connectivity. — Increases patient and staff safety. — Strengthens the University of North ...
Rose Chrsitensen Rogers Are we Americans gullible enough to believe that the new USMCA (United States Mexico Canada Agreement) promotes FREE TRADE when it consists of an 1809 page, 8 inch tall stack of rules and regulation for appointed, international bureaucrats to administer? Does all ...
Jeffrey Skaare Dickinson As a life-long North Dakotan and a parent of two children, I hope that all North Dakotans support House Bill 1066, which reinvests oil taxes in western North Dakota and funds infrastructure across the state. The North Dakota Legislature has made significant ...
Joan Peterson Minot Have I ever driven through a roundabout intersection? No, I wasn’t able to drive through, but rather round and round and round until I was in total exasperation as it was evening and I could not find my cousin’s street. I experimented by taking a street to see if ...
Robert Hale Minot In 2012, Measure 2, an initiated measure to constitutionally abolish property taxes in North Dakota, was soundly defeated by North Dakota voters. Opponents of the measure, lead by state legislators, acknowledged that property taxes were woefully out of control and needed ...
Dick Monson Barnes County In every session of the ND Legislature a No Trespass/No Hunting bill comes forward from a few people. Thankfully it has always been soundly defeated in the Legislature as a bill that is a perennial bad idea. Our current recreational access law allows ...
Waylon Hedegaard Bismarck Law enforcement and firefighters have a difficult, dangerous and necessary job in this state, and most North Dakotans fully support them and appreciate what they do. Every one of our public officials wants to be seen as pro-law enforcement, pro-firefighter and ...
For the past two years, I have defended the press from President Donald Trump's criticism. Having worked at both CNN and Fox News, I know the good hard work so many reporters do to provide us with the news. We have a president who found a way out of going to Vietnam, and we have reporters who ...
Since a location was announced last July for the proposed Magic City Discovery Center, Minot has witnessed an outpouring of generous donations for this worthy cause. The most recent announcement came earlier this week when it was made known that the Tollefson family of Minot would donate ...
The National Football League is back on top of the ratings heap after both conference championship games were so competitive they spilled into overtime. Sunday's New England Patriots-Kansas City Chiefs game drew 53.9 million viewers to CBS — a shocking 27 percent increase from last year ...
Democratic dreams of a Green New Deal tap into some very real concerns shared by most Americans. Fifty-five percent of voters nationwide agree with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) that we have just over a decade to act before catastrophic impacts of climate change become ...
Is it lack of economic development, or bad luck with it, or bad efforts? Is it taxes that are too high? Greed? Bad government, here or in Bismarck? One or more of these things is referenced on most occasions when a local resident discusses the economic challenges facing our region. ...
Back in the day, small rural airports had textile windsocks, simple and empty things that indicated which way the wind was blowing. The ubiquitous Sen. Lindsey Graham has become a political windsock, and as such he — more than the sturdy, substantial elephant — is emblematic of his party ...
A movement in the North Dakota Legislature seeks to end state income tax on veteran retirement payments earned by active duty or reserve military personnel. Minot Daily News supports the measure, which would extend the exemption from affecting active duty and reserve pay to their retirement ...
D o you know what’s the worst? When some joker puts on an air of intellectual superiority and asks you if you know what the definition of insanity is, as if you’ve never heard that one before. You try not to roll your eyes as they tell you it’s “doing the same thing over and over ...