I am at my limit in regard to the ad campaign that keeps telling me that Measure 4 is not the "North Dakota Way." The campaign seeks to shoot down Measure 4 by blanketing the airwaves with ads, peppering every tobacco retailer with signs, and filling voters' mailboxes with a seemingly endless onslaught of red, [...]
America is not the country it used to be. Big money and partisan politics over the last couple of decades have left the majority of American citizens wanting. The chasm between the haves and have-nots has grown dramatically. Our government has become a three-ring circus - a circus no one feels good about. Too often, [...]
Tonight I had the honor and privilege to have dinner with three veterans and Kaarin Remmich of NDSU's Military and Veteran Services office. The veterans - my son Noah, Dr. Berlin Nelson (from NDSU), and Lt. Col. (Ret.) Barry Bridger from Missouri. We were out to dinner this evening to welcome Barry into the state [...]
Is it just me or has this campaign season been the most unbearable campaign season of all time? I think it has been decidedly more unbearable because of Facebook. Facebook has become a more powerful delivery system of brutal character blows than any attack television ads, because we know the person placing the advertisement. Facebook friends [...]
I believe that the term "victimless crime" is an oxymoron. I think some folks think if a person isn't hurt it isn't a crime. I say - sure, but victim may not be a person, but that does not mean there is no victim or victims. The victim of the crime could be a creature, the [...]
The suicide rate of active duty military members is up to about one a day. When we add this to the 18 veteran suicides a day that have been documented over the past few years we should be horrified. One a day in active service is an unacceptable loss, 19 a day between active military and veterans is an unspeakable horror. [...]
As a West Fargo resident I was glad to hear that the school bond passed. I will pay more in taxes tis' true, but I recognize that a key factor in ensuring a community's well-being is maintaining it's critical infrastructure. Roads, sewers, law enforcement, etc. are all well and fine, but that is not what [...]
THE NEW FORTY 