An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child’s success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or, even more fundamentally, is intelligence genetic, or can education increase IQ? James ...
Rep. Lisa Finley-Deville, Mandaree As a representative of the people that elected me, it’s a serious concern when I hear talk about taking away options for people to vote. This national conversation around eliminating mail-in ballots and voting machines is a direct challenge to the ...
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 ...