EDITORIALS
OUR OPINION: In search of good government
Like most elections, Tuesday’s belonged to the moderates, the good-government types who sit at the center -- where the action is.November 04, 2009
OUR OPINION: No excuse for secret meetings
Isn’t it time for officials to stop making excuses and start following the law?November 03, 2009
OUR OPINION: The high cost of low-priced prescription drugs
The real key is not the high prices Americans pay. The real key is the low prices Europeans and Canadians pay. The U.S. government should focus on persuading and/or pressuring other rich countries to relax their price controls and pay their fair share of drug costs.November 02, 2009
OUR OPINION: Prescription drugs need better Rx
'Controlling prescription drug prices is one way to lower U.S. health costs, but it comes at a cost for future generations, according to a new RAND Corp. study,' a RAND press release noted in December.November 01, 2009
OUR OPINION: 'All costs, few benefits' study shorts higher education
OUR VIEW: The North Dakota Policy Council’s anti-tax bias poisons the council’s approach.By Tom Dennis for the Herald , November 01, 2009
OUR OPINION: Division I to the (partial) rescue 
A look at North Dakota State University’s experience shows that once a Division I program gets fully up and running, there’s a whole lot of money to be made on the attendance side.
October 29, 2009
OUR OPINION: Too soon to ban laptops from cockpits
Minnesota Sen. Al Franken and others’ quick reaction ignores the vast differences between driving a car and flying a commercial plane.
October 28, 2009
OUR OPINION: Conrad's critics miss point
North Dakota newspaper commentaries have called attention to Conrad’s prediction many times. But the critics persist in ignoring it, dismissing it or pooh-poohing it — anything to avoid rebutting it, because it’s hard to rebut an argument that has the facts on its side.
October 27, 2009
OUR OPINION: Keep waffle plan hot and fresh
The waffle plan's flood protection could help not only Fargo and Moorhead, but also every other Red River city, including Grand Forks and East Grand Forks.
October 20, 2009
OUR OPINION: Fargo, Moorhead should consider benefits of Greenway for their cities
Fargo and Moorhead residents, take it from your fellow North Dakotans and Minnesotans downriver: If you engineer your flood protection system to include an extensive greenway, you and your city leaders will never regret it.
October 18, 2009
OUR OPINION: Foundations at universities should commit to openness again
When news broke that their presidential-residence construction projects had rung up big cost overruns, North Dakota’s university foundations made unwanted headlines.
By Tom Dennis , October 17, 2009
THEIR OPINION: Put tort reform back on the table
Tort reform sounds like a good value for the amount of money it will save in this potentially high-cost effort to provide needed health care for every American.
October 16, 2009
OUR OPINION: Board should reaffirm system approach
Joe Chapman did great things for North Dakota State University.
Now it’s time for the State Board of Higher Education to do great things for the North Dakota University System.
October 15, 2009
OUR OPINION: New Minnesota state park: Going, but not gone
Time has not run out on the proposed Lake Vermilion State Park. But it’s getting short; and if the park’s supporters don’t take action soon, they could wake up one morning and see that the bulldozers, vacation-home architects and construction crews have moved in.
October 14, 2009
OUR OPINION: NDSU President Chapman’s blind spot
From his use of an NDSU campus police captain as a bodyguard last year to the news this week that his wife is on the NDSU Development Foundation’s payroll, Chapman acts as if the usual rules pertaining to public officials in North Dakota don’t apply.
October 13, 2009
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