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Opinion

Only path leading way out of inflation quagmire

National Columnists

The Federal Reserve’s premature victory lap over inflation reveals a worrisome misunderstanding of the predicament we still find ourselves in. Unprecedented government spending and debt, combined with mounting fears that the debt can’t (or won’t) be repaid, played a misunderstood role in ...

‘Our golden age has just begun’

National Columnists

Breathtaking: There’s no other word for the sheer ambition and scope of Donald Trump’s second inaugural address. President Trump is back with all the confidence of a man delivered from death for a purpose. Voters save his political life and legacy, too, by reelecting him in the face of ...

Working to restore US strength, with ND at center

Local Columnists

North Dakota fulfills an ever-growing role in our national defense. Our state leads the way on missions, both new and established, that are critical to U.S. security and ability to push back on the aggressions of our adversaries. We have been laying the groundwork for these efforts for years, ...

Martin Luther King remains an inspiration

National Columnists

Rev. Dr. Martin L. King Jr. remains a bright ornament in the heavens — an inspiration to rise to moral heights in the face of danger or evil. In Alabama, Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor had his fire hoses, and Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark his cattle prods, but Dr. King ...

Trump gets ultimate honor for inauguration

National Columnists

In 1942, the Nazi apparatchik Otto Dietrich sniffed, “America never contributed anything to world civilization but chewing gum and Coca-Cola.” He rather understated our significance, but even if he’d been right, giving the world Coca-Cola is a greater contributor to human happiness than ...

Family grateful for Trinity’s services

Letters to the Editor

Cathy and Ken Haarstad, Minot We as a family are grateful. Very grateful. Our adult daughter with disabilities was hospitalized last summer after she fell ill with diabetes, pneumonia and staph infection. She spent weeks on a ventilator and required lung and other surgeries, an infection ...