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July 24, 2014
OUR OPINION: Grand Forks should commit to becoming Sports City
Our view: Youth sports can both bring prosperity and boost the quality of life.
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Robert Hale: Amendment ensures N.D. respects, protects life
MINOT — Let’s be clear about several things. Measure 1, which will be on the November ballot in North Dakota, is intended to add to Article 1, Section 1 of our state constitution. It is intended to address a question that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun posed...
opinion / op-ed columns20 hours 27 min ago
July 23, 2014
OUR OPINION: Marcil family’s gift makes exceptional difference
Herald employees always are happy to be associated with Forum Communications, the company that owns the newspaper. But there are times...
opinion / our opinionJuly 23, 2014 - 5:00am
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DOUG GOEHRING: Sound bytes v. smart regs in ag commissioner race
BISMARCK — Many times, what sounds good is anything but easy. Such is the case with the column by Ryan Taylor, the Democratic-NPL Party’s candidate for North Dakota agriculture commissioner (“Hat-wearing, non-furbearing leadership for N.D.,” Page A4, July 18)....
opinion / op-ed columnsJuly 23, 2014 - 4:45am
LETTER: Shame on society for propagating modern ‘blacklists’
GRAND FORKS — It seems humans have no limit in their desire to punish those they view as unworthy, and I found the Herald story with maps and pictures of sex offenders on the front page unwarranted and lacking in real substance and human/religious kindness (“Is your...
opinion / lettersJuly 23, 2014 - 4:30am
LETTER: Celebrate N.D., the new Land of Opportunity
TIOGA, N.D. — I was a Southern California beach-dwelling girl until 2½ years ago. North Dakota is now my home, and being here and running a business during the “oil boom” has let me have a home and a roof over my head. Three years ago, some of my extended family came...
opinion / lettersJuly 23, 2014 - 4:00am
July 22, 2014
HOLLY KRAGTHORPE: Valuing teachers beyond seniority number
MINNEAPOLIS — Education Minnesota President Denise Specht recently penned an op-ed on teacher tenure, arguing that it provides educators with the protections they need to best advocate for their students (“Teacher tenure a bad apple?”, Page F1, July 13). Specht acknowledges,...
opinion / featured columnistsJuly 22, 2014 - 4:42pm
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OUR OPINION: North Dakota program walks challenging tightrope
Minnesota locks up more sex offenders per capita for longer periods and with fewer chances for release than any other state.
opinion / our opinionJuly 22, 2014 - 5:00am
THAT REMINDS ME: Grand Forks County ‘Poor Farm’ housed many elderly
The days of the “County Poor Farm” are long gone but not completely forgotten. After writing earlier this year about the farm at Arvilla, N.D., I heard from several readers. One is Jim Aaker of Lakota, N.D. He is the grandson of Carl and Eina Aaker, who took over...
opinion / featured columnistsJuly 22, 2014 - 4:45am
LETTER: Be skeptical of claims about salt-water spill
MADAREE, N.D. — On July 13, I heard that the water is OK to drink in Mandaree after the spill of a million gallons of the salt water or brine near Bear Den, N.D. But I also have been told that trees and vegetation are dying. So, I would like to know the following...
opinion / lettersJuly 22, 2014 - 4:45am
July 21, 2014
COMING HOME: Even Google can’t provide all the answers
WATFORD CITY, N.D. -- We all have our struggles in life. These days, mine come in swarms, and in wild, unruly clusters. My husband’s come with feathers, dive-bombing at my head. Yes, in all the lamenting I do about these beautiful, lush, warm summers spent living (literally)...
opinion / featured columnistsJuly 21, 2014 - 7:07am
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“We need a new town law,” Chief Warning Officer Garvey Erfald announced as the other 13 electors jockeyed for the best folding chairs in the community hall for the semi-annual policy summit of the town’s Homeland Security Committee. “OK,” bellowed Chairperson Ork Dorken,...
opinion / op-ed columnsJuly 21, 2014 - 3:30am
July 20, 2014
RICHARD SMITH: Enbridge’s refusal to reroute pipeline says it all
BEMIDJI — When Herald readers look at maps of the proposed Enbridge Sandpiper Pipeline route to Superior, they can SEE what’s at stake. The Enbridge route crosses the Red River and the Mississippi Headwaters, creating hazards for important aquifers and jeopardizing some of...
opinion / featured columnistsJuly 20, 2014 - 7:45am
LETTER: How can America turn back needy children?
FARGO — For a nation “built on Christian values,” the current influx of immigrant children fleeing their homelands in hopes of finding safety begs the question, “What would Jesus do?” Would he speak of them as though they were vermin and scare them with guns, barbed...
opinion / lettersJuly 20, 2014 - 7:30am
LETTER: The ABCs of trade agreements: Oppose TPA
VALLEY CITY, N.D. — A nation probably never has drowned in alphabet soup, but one might with the ever-increasing “free” trade agreements. Such agreements are hardly “free,” given their non-elected bodies with unconstitutional sovereignty-draining grants of lawmaking...
opinion / lettersJuly 20, 2014 - 7:15am
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