DEAN BRESCIANI AND ROBERT KELLEY: Immigration reform will help universities, N.D.

As the institutional leaders of North Dakota’s research universities, we are writing to encourage Herald readers’ support of our state’s senators for reform of current federal immigration law.

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• Dean Bresciani, president of North Dakota State University.

Val Fugett, Dickinson, N.D. letter: Stories overdramatize crime in western N.D.

Val Fugett of Dickinson writes in about crime in North Dakota.

Michael Manias, East Grand Forks, N.D. letter: One word can save taxpayers $200 million: Skype

Michael Manias of East Grand Forks writes in about President Obama's travel expenses.

Santhosh Seelan, Grand Forks, N.D. letter: For trash collection, ‘pay as you throw’

Santhosh Seelan of Grand Forks writes in about recycling.

OUR OPINION: House Farm Bill needs conservation provisions

When Minnesota presents itself to the world, it doesn’t say, “Home of the Mall of America.” It says, “Land of 10,000 Lakes.” Likewise, North Dakota’s “Legendary” moniker has nothing to do with the number of oil rigs now pumping.

• Our Opinion

Barry Beloff, Golden Valley, Minn. letter: A salute to Tom Brosseau, GF’s rising star

Barry Beloff writes in about Tom Brosseau

OUR OPINION: East Grand Forks’ best option: Piping sewage to Grand Forks

Why are some in East Grand Forks so protective of the city’s sewage that they’re unwilling to pipe it for treatment to Grand Forks?

• Our Opinion

Robert Otto, Crystal N.D. letter: Sugar program helps farmers, not consumers

Robert Otto of Crystal N.D. writes in about American Crystal Sugar Co.

ANDY PETERSON: N.D. needs ‘Gang of Eight’ immigration plan

By all accounts, the economy is booming in North Dakota. We are lucky to have such a low unemployment rate, several points below the national average. The success North Dakota is having is in many respects helped by good public policy and by leaders who are committed to fostering a welcoming business environment.

• Andy Peterson

MARILYN HAGERTY: Mail-order and mystery brides, 100 years ago

No cell phones. No iPhones. People in love wrote letters back and forth 100 years ago.

• Marilyn Hagerty

Peterson trades away poor families’ food security

Thanks to one of our own, western Minnesota’s hungry seniors and children are about to go hungrier. U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson’s willingness to wheel and deal away our local low-income families’ access to healthy food means that the already-inadequate Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called food stamps) is about to be slashed.

LLOYD OMDAHL: Qualifications for N.D.’s new chancellor will be tough to meet

Overseer of the institutions of higher learning in North Dakota, actual title to be negotiated. Constitution calls the position “commiss- ioner,” but everyone hopes for a “chancellor.” The constitution has not been amended to change the title because we were unsure that “chancellor” would stick. Thus far, it hasn’t.

• Lloyd Omdahl

PAUL KRUGMAN: The New Luddites may have a point

In 1786, the cloth workers of Leeds, a wool-industry center in northern England, issued a protest against the growing use of “scribbling” machines, which were taking over a task formerly performed by skilled labor.

• Paul Krugman

DAVID BROOKS: The new Golden Rule: If you’ve got it, flaunt it

About a century ago, Walter Judd was a 17-year-old boy hoping to go to college at the University of Nebraska. His father pulled him aside and told him that, though the family happily had paid for Judd’s two sisters to go to college, Judd himself would get no money for tuition or room and board.

• David Brooks

ED IVANCIC: Food stamp cuts will make children go hungry

The American medical community has been concerned for some time about the reality of hunger and malnutrition. Nutrition is paramount to health and survival, especially for young children who are more susceptible to illness and long-term health problems without proper nutrition.