Frank Larkin, COO, Troops First Foundation, Chair, Warrior Call, Mt. Airy, Md. New data from the CDC shows that suicide rates in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2022. Nearly 50,000 of our brothers and sisters died by suicide last year alone. As troubling as those numbers undoubtedly ...
Landis Larson , President, ND AFL--CIO, West Fargo This Labor Day weekend, the North Dakota AFL-CIO, the federation of labor unions in North Dakota, wants working people to know: “It’s Better in a Union.” Life is better in a union. When we join together with our co-workers, our ...
Lianne Zeltinger , Minot For the last few days, I have been collecting signatures for the initiated measure to eliminate property tax for the citizens of North Dakota. This past Sunday I was at the Food Truck Festival. I want to thank everyone who signed the petition or politely declined ...
Andrew Allis, Granville In the 2002 Spielberg-directed futuristic science fiction movie “Minority Report,” set in the year 2054, Tom Cruise stars as the chief of the “Precrime” unit, a specialized police force which arrests would-be future criminals from information provided by ...
James Maxson, Minot I’m not naive enough to believe that my opinions will change many minds. Preconceived ideas are alive and well. Some believe that January 6th was merely the expression of opinion. That is true of those who never assaulted law enforcement officers, who never vandalized ...
Lori Nehlsen, Science teacher, Minot Public Schools, Minot I am thrilled to express my enthusiastic support for the recent decision made by the Minot Public Schools Board of Education on the unanimous approval of the Plum Creek Native Prairie at the former site of Ramstad Middle School. ...