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BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD NORTH DAKOTA How is my premium spent?
We know health care insurance isn't cheap - but do you know how your premium dollars are spent? Suprised? Not? What do you think? We're still listening....
Posted on 2/13/12 at 11:19 AM
JIMMY JABBER There’s no one to blame but yourself for missing class
Video games are the reason for students struggles in school as much as food is to blame for peoples weight issues. College often is a persons first taste of freedom (loads of free time) from parental ...
Posted on 12/27/11 at 1:00 AM
OUR OPINION: Fine weather highlights Red River’s canoeing potential 
The Red River is a spectacular canoeing river — slow and peaceful on most days, with lots of wildlife and little development along its banks.
But it lacks one vital amenity: namely, well-spaced canoe landings.
North Dakota should change that.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , April 30, 2012
OUR OPINION: Keep focus on child safety on farms
The Labor Department in effect tried to make farm childhoods completely safe. That was an overreach, as the outcry proved; and the department smartly retreated.
But how about trying to make farm childhoods safer than they are today?
Not completely safe. Safer.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , April 29, 2012
OUR OPINION: Cellphone research gets tossed out car window
The trouble is that while a number of states have passed laws banning the use of hand-held phones while driving, available research suggests those might not reduce accident rates.
By Tom Dennis , April 27, 2012
OUR OPINION: Minnesota House should work its MAGIC
A local-government reform bill now in front of the Minnesota Legislature has won the unanimous support of all 87 Minnesota counties.
Really, that’s just about all lawmakers need to know.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , April 25, 2012
OUR OPINION: For Bullion Butte, a new lease on life
The Department of Trust Lands has removed two sections of land on Bullion Butte’s west slope from an upcoming minerals lease. So, there won’t be an oil well on Bullion Butte after all.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , April 23, 2012
OUR OPINION: Don't put brakes on bike trail construction
If valley residents like the recreation and convenience that bike trails offer, now is the time to speak up. That's because the funding source that has built most of the modern bike trails in America is at risk.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , April 22, 2012
OUR OPINION: State Farm should be so lucky
In basketball, there’s a comeback that’s always good for silencing trash talk, but only if your team’s well ahead: “Look at the scoreboard.”
On Thursday, Minnesota’s House Republican leader took some cheap shots at the North Dakota Capitol building. To which North Dakota can only reply: Look at the scoreboard.
By Tom Dennis , April 21, 2012
OUR OPINION: Picture Hoeven, Klobuchar as Senate leaders
Last week, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., hosted Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on a visit to North Dakota’s Oil Patch.
How refreshing it was to see two senators put partisan differences aside for a cordial, good-natured and clearly productive visit.
And how intriguing it is to speculate on the Midwesterners’ future in the U.S. Senate.
By Tom Dennis , April 21, 2012
OUR OPINION: A welcome addition to downtown Grand Forks
Congratulations and “thanks” to Edgewood Real Estate Investment Trust and Edgewood Management Group, which have bought and will occupy a historic and vitally important building downtown.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , April 19, 2012
OUR OPINION: Partisanship puts vital DNR fund at risk
The much-needed increase in the hunting- and fishing-license fee looks like one more casualty of the poisonous political atmosphere in St. Paul.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , April 18, 2012
OUR OPINION: A tribally funded free press
If frustrated tribal members want to break the cycle of mismanagement, what can they do?
Here’s one idea. And it has nothing to do with tribal social services, the tribal council or the Bureau of Indian Affairs:
Make provisions for a permanent — and permanently free — press.
By Tom Dennis , April 16, 2012
OUR OPINION: Something new to pay for college
University of California-Riverside students have developed a proposal that could upend the way Americans pay for college educations.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , April 15, 2012
OUR OPINION: One-sided anti-poverty discussions disappoint
“Our research shows that if you want to avoid poverty and join the middle class in the United States, you need to complete high school (at a minimum), work full time and marry before you have children,” a Brookings Institution report concluded in 2009.
How can a conference claim to be about ending poverty if it wears blinders to such results?
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , April 10, 2012
OUR OPINION: NDSU leaders should support UND in retiring the Fighting Sioux nickname
Will North Dakota reaffirm its commitment to hosting two strong and academically independent research universities? Or will it hobble one of those schools — and in so doing, quash the independence and authority that has so empowered the other?
By Tom Dennis , April 07, 2012
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