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Opinion

Park tax proposal benefits few, costs all

Letters to the Editor

Steven Moen, Minot Minot’s City Council/Park Board are at it again, spending money they don’t have on buildings we don’t need. They are pushing to raise sales tax to pay for this building that a very small percentage of taxpayers will ever set foot into. I think the reason behind this ...

House budget to bring hardship to ND

Letters to the Editor

Landis Larson, Bismarck In the middle of the night, North Dakota Representative Julie Fedorchak voted for a budget that will bring hardship and worse to many working families in North Dakota. In a time where working families are struggling to pay for the basics of food, housing, childcare, ...

We stand for American flag in honor

Editorials

We stand for the flag not to please ourselves, but to honor the 1.2 million American men and women who died for our freedom because of war. When the national anthem plays or the flag passes by during a parade, and you stand at attention and place your hand over your heart, what do you think ...

Politics can’t strip us of our humanity

National Columnists

News broke recently that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of metastatic prostate cancer. The disease, which has now spread to his bones, is life-threatening and deeply serious. Let me say this clearly: Whether you love him or hate him, whether you voted ...

Big government hurts poorest people

National Columnists

Why is it such a struggle for Republicans to do what clearly needs to be done regarding taxes and spending? Let’s get to the root of the problem. I began my work some 30 years ago with a passion to fix what was broken in our nation’s low-income communities. That is, to end the cycle ...

Government attacks on private property

National Columnists

A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought to mind the dark and dangerous history of law enforcement. The practice of British agents rummaging through the private possessions on the private property of anyone ...