OUR OPINION
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.
By Tom Dennis , June 19, 2013
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?
By Tom Dennis , June 18, 2013
OUR OPINION: Uncertainty argues against expanding recycling
There's enough doubt about recycling's effectiveness to prompt skepticism about paying more.
June 16, 2013
OUR OPINION: Let lawmakers taketh away, not giveth
The law gives elected officials in the Legislature the final say, and it’s wrong for lawmakers to ignore this duty.
By Tom Dennis , June 12, 2013
OUR OPINION: Grand Forks schools should ask again for language immersion 
Call up the “Directory of Foreign Language Immersion Programs,” click on Minnesota, and you’ll find a state that’s trying to make strides. But call up the directory and click on North Dakota, and you’ll find ... A state with seemingly no interest at all. “No records to display,” the directory reports.
By Tom Dennis , June 10, 2013
OUR OPINION: For chancellor, a ‘Magnificent 7’ list of leaders
Turn the word “leader” into the phrase “leader and manager,” and you’d have the exact description of the person whom the Board of Higher Education must find to fill the interim chancellor job.
By Tom Dennis , June 08, 2013
OUR OPINION: Learn from other countries and services
Our view: Armed Forces leaders should set parochialism aside when they search for solutions to challenging problems.
By Tom Dennis , June 06, 2013
OUR OPINION: Board’s task now is rebuilding trust
The State Board of Higher Education has a year to regain the public and the Legislature’s trust.
By Tom Dennis , June 04, 2013
OUR OPINION: Let’s look forward to life without the nickname
Probably there are as many reactions to last week’s news about the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo as there are people familiar with the story. But one reaction must be nearly universal: Can this really be the end?
By Mike Jacobs , June 02, 2013
OUR OPINION: Surprise! N.D. is a big government state
North Dakota’s 2013 Legislature set a big task for itself. An interim committee will study local property taxes and what they pay for, local government.
By Mike Jacobs , May 31, 2013
OUR OPINION: A country worth fighting for
Scandals plague Washington. Critics attack the president from all sides. Partisans go at each other tooth and nail, and not just on talk radio but in Congress itself. To put it another way: Ain’t America grand? Because it’s obvious on this Memorial Day that there’s no finer country on Earth.
By Tom Dennis , May 26, 2013
OUR OPINION: Champions don’t cheat: That’s the point
Just in case nobody else says it, we’ll go ahead and say it here: Shame on you Bison athletes who skipped out on community service. Shame on you NDSU for the handling of this whole sorry episode.
By Mike Jacobs , May 25, 2013
OUR OPINION: On a tanker mission for GFAFB: Try, try again
When Grand Forks Air Force Base won a new “unmanned aerial vehicles” mission in 2005, local officials got to work.
By Tom Dennis , May 25, 2013
OUR OPINION: In sympathy with the family
Our hearts are broken today, and our prayers are with the family of McCain Endres, the 16-year-old Central student who died in a motorcycle accident a block away from school.
By Tom Dennis , May 23, 2013
OUR OPINION: Charities sow early seeds of recovery
“American Red Cross volunteers had an emergency shelter open by 7 p.m. at the public school in Drayton, N.D.,” Wednesday’s Herald reported.
Why are we not surprised to learn that before many people in the region even knew that Cavalier, N.D., had been evacuated, the Red Cross already had a shelter up and running?
By Tom Dennis , May 23, 2013
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