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Opinion

Here’s real cause of our growing national debt

National Columnists

Recently, the credit rating of the United States was downgraded. Moody’s, the ratings firm, announced that the U.S. government’s rising debt levels will grow further if the Trump Republican package of new tax cuts is enacted. This makes lending to the United States riskier. (Moody’s is ...

ND’s small hospitals rely on Medicaid payments

Letters to the Editor

Per Ostmo, Grand Forks There are 37 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in the state of North Dakota. The CAH designation is designed to reduce the financial vulnerability of rural hospitals and improve access to healthcare by keeping essential services in rural communities. It is not uncommon ...

Congress must reject cuts to SNAP

Letters to the Editor

Aunnah Shaw, Minot As a prior SNAP recipient and current social work student, I support increased funding and ethical reform. I’ve submitted two formal letters to U.S. Senators outlining systemic failures in Ward County. I’m willing to speak directly as someone with lived experience and ...

Honor Flight welcome meant so much

Letters to the Editor

Gene Bailey, Minot This letter is in response to the Honor Flight returning from Washington, D.C., on Monday, the 28th of April 2025. I was holding back tears of joy. What a special homecoming. I want to thank each and every one of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming out – ...

Antisemitism in this country is unAmerican

National Columnists

Jews who came to the United States from Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries celebrated the country as the “Goldene Medina,” Yiddish for the “Golden Land.” And by comparison to life in Czarist Russia with its pogroms, conscription of Jewish men for 25 years and ...

‘China shock’ myth is unraveling

National Columnists

When Donald Trump first campaigned in 2015, he capitalized on a potent narrative: that China’s rise gutted American manufacturing, leaving countless blue-collar communities devastated. Known now as the “China shock,” that idea paved the way for a dramatic resurgence in protectionism, ...