I have been following the current surge in Covid infections both in North Dakota and Minnesota and here at our winter home in Phoenix, Arizona. They are all showing record hospitalizations nearly all of which are people who are unvaccinated. The latest data I have seen shows that North Dakot…
When your home is infested with termites you are completely unaware of the damage they are doing to the foundation of your home. As the strength of the beams and basement diminishes you go happily about your life. Republican termites are eating the foundation of our democracy one bite at a t…
I’m getting to know a lot of people that died from Covid-19.
We’ve been enjoying a lot of family game nights this winter likely due to the fact we’ve been gifted with some superbly cold nights and we just enjoy each other’s presence. But if it was my turn to lose, I’m sickened with a lump and a tear imagining myself exiting the room with lower lip pro…
Regarding the Bismarck Tribune article on Dec. 22, “Mandan highway to see lane reduction”
Basin Electric Power Cooperative is within its rights to sell its Great Plains Synfuels Plant to Bakken Energy to produce hydrogen, but members of the Coal Conversion Counties Association do not believe the state of North Dakota should provide financial support for the speculative deal.
Today was the one-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. On Jan. 6, 2021, thousands who attended a rally led by two-time impeached President Trump, marched to the Capitol, and stormed it with the intent of stopping the electoral count of our duly elected president, President Biden.
This is in response to Mr. Ron Carlson of Bismarck, who somehow believes that an attempt to take over our nation's government is no big deal.
These comments reference Sarah Vogel’s Bismarck Tribune opinion piece “Conflicts of interest brazen” which reference Amy Sisk’s Bismarck Tribune story “Millions Awarded for Clean Energy Projects: Group Raised Conflict of Interest Concerns.”
OK, stick a knife in me. Was the Jan. 6 incursion that big of a deal? Was what took place that bad? Yes, it is terrible a person lost her life. She was shot by a federal employee under questionable circumstances. I feel strongly that each and every life matters. She should be alive today.
It’s a New Year and time to reflect and time to make resolutions. How can we engage and encourage those in leadership in our state? As a member of the North Dakota Republican party, I am aware that many of the 47 NDGOP Districts across the state are having reorganizational meetings in the up…
A song and a fact for 2022 … sing it you know it: Song: “Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King.” Fact: “Jesus is Coming.”
In Investing in North Dakota Friday, Dec. 31, Mr. Omdahl writes "so that professional judgment, not local politics or politicians, controls decisions."
There is a proposed rule from the EPA that will reduce toxic emissions resulting from the oil and gas industry. The EPA has extended the comment period for National Standards and Guidelines to Reduce Methane and Other Harmful Pollutants from New and Existing Sources in the Oil and Natural Ga…
As our state passed the grim milestone of 2,000 COVID dead, it should be noted more deaths and hospitalizations came to the west during delta.
When the architects of Indian boarding schools designed their curriculum, they sought to replace the ancestral languages of Indian children with English and replace the traditional customs of Indian children with Anglo-American popular culture.
Henry Lebak (12/16):
Student loan debt is such the hot topic. Every person who signed on the dotted line to take out a school loan knew the amount they were borrowing as their obligation to repay. Questions I ask, did every penny they borrowed go for books and tuition or were they financing their living expenses…
Widespread delusion has always permeated our society. During the time of slavery many southerners had the audacity to claim that slavery improved the lot of the enslaved. The notion was absurd, yet it justified the mistreatment of millions of people. Today the illusion of the trickle down ec…
As we approach this Christmas season at a time when our nation and the world are in such turmoil and strife -- like nothing I have seen in my more than 70 years of living -- I wanted to take a moment to try to offer hope. All of it takes me back to a time nearly 40 years ago when I was in su…
Bill Patrie (12/16) admits Jesus existed. He even affirms at least some of his moral teachings and acknowledges him as a reformer “whose teachings revolutionized thinking about humans and God.” However, he denies Jesus is God.
What the heck is going on?
Much as I am entertained by fractures in the Republican party, it’s truly concerning that the anti-Democratic party has also become the anti-democracy party. Minot district chair Jay Lundeen with whom I likely share no other political agreement summed up the state GOP and the national GOP ac…
I write this letter in response to one published recently from Dr. Ana Tobiasz, Vice Chair, ND section of American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. What she states in her letter is false and she misrepresents what a Crisis Pregnancy Center is and does.
You might have read recently that the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) is petitioning USDA to replace Product of the USA with Processed in the USA. Why does this matter? There’s a big difference between the words “Product” and “Processed” when applied to beef labels. “Product of …