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    LETTER: Support Dalrymple's Outdoor Heritage Fund plan
    Despite the defeat of Measure 5, conservation funding remains a priority, as evidenced by Gov. Jack Dalrymple's leadership in supporting the Outdoor Heritage Fund. Dalrymple's budget proposal contains an additional $50 million for the fund and $30 million to rejuvenate aging state...
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    January 26, 2015
    OUR OPINION: Don't disparage pipeline construction jobs
    With pipeline projects come jobs. It's just plain logic that many people — maybe thousands of people — will be needed to build them. Yet...
    opinion / our opinionJanuary 26, 2015 - 11:25pm
    THE ONLOOKER: The Legislature's rules empower us all
    The Legislature has been grinding away for three weeks now, processing proposed legislation and considering proposed budgets. It's not all work, though. There's a reception pretty much every night. Some with dinner.
    opinion / featured columnistsJanuary 26, 2015 - 11:17pm
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    THAT REMINDS ME: Grand Forks County Courthouse takes shape in 1915
    One of America's greatest sculptors was working on the new court house building in Grand Forks 100 years ago. But Andrew Genout's fame was unknown to many people who daily watched him completing the carving on the marble, the Herald reported. Genout, 45, started to learn his work...
    opinion / featured columnistsJanuary 26, 2015 - 11:15pm
    COMING HOME: Sights bring back memories of songs
    WATFORD CITY, N.D. -- Here’s a confession for you: When I was a kid, I wrote, stamped and addressed a fan letter to Reba McEntire, pretty convinced that the red-haired early-’90s country bombshell would write back. I mean, we had so much in common, her and I growing...
    opinion / featured columnistsJanuary 26, 2015 - 6:00am
    OUR OPINION: Too soon to spend N.D.'s Legacy Fund money
    Five thousand dollars is a lot of money. That's how much every North Dakota newborn would get for college tuition and other purposes if lawmakers...
    opinion / our opinionJanuary 26, 2015 - 5:00am
    LLOYD OMDAHL: Red alert! The N.D. Legislature is in session
    Let them eat cake As expected, the first issue to be considered by the North Dakota Legislature was taxes. The Republicans want to cut income taxes, while the Democrats want to reduce property taxes. Both parties are wrong. Cutting the income tax helps only those with incomes;...
    opinion / featured columnistsJanuary 26, 2015 - 4:45am
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    LETTER: Peterson's personal attacks are disappointing
    I am disappointed in the personal attacks leveled by Andy Peterson, president and CEO of the Greater North Dakota Chamber ("Common Core critic flunks core test: Accuracy," Page A4, Jan. 14) Peterson, who spent most of his life in Minnesota, has yet to learn "North Dakota Nice." As...
    opinion / lettersJanuary 26, 2015 - 4:15am
    LETTER: Free speech for me but not thee
    Has it occurred to anyone how the recent Charlie Hebdo incident in France relates to the issue of the Fighting Sioux logo? What we saw over the past 20 years was an indictment by the politically correct community of the Sioux name and logo as an affront to the civil rights of American...
    opinion / lettersJanuary 26, 2015 - 4:10am
    LETTER: Students need both education and training
    The letters on Common Core as well as on businesses taking an interest in the training of a workforce confuse education for life and training for marketable skills. Unfortunately, many of our colleges and universities have confused the two, arguing that college graduates will have...
    opinion / lettersJanuary 26, 2015 - 4:00am
    January 25, 2015
    GEORGE WILL: Vermont's Sanders has mountains to climb
    WASHINGTON - The young man who answered the phone in the Senate office of Vermont's Bernie Sanders told the caller, a would-be campaign contributor, that it is illegal for funds to be accepted on federal property. He advised the person to contact Sanders' political operation, which...
    opinion / op-ed columnsJanuary 25, 2015 - 7:30am
    Lindsey Burke: Proposals ignore dismal graduation rates, other pitfalls
    WASHINGTON- The Obama administration announced recently that it will propose two years of "free" community college, paid for by taxpayers, for students maintaining a "C" or better average. The federal government would finance three-quarters of the costs, and the administration says...
    opinion / op-ed columnsJanuary 25, 2015 - 5:10am
    LeRoy Stumpf: Tuition grants can build Minnesota's workforce
    ST. PAUL -Over the past year, I've had the opportunity to tour dozens of community colleges across the state. I also am honored to serve on the Governor's Blue Ribbon Committee, which focuses on elevating the University of Minnesota's status in the country. I chair the Senate's...
    opinion / op-ed columnsJanuary 25, 2015 - 5:00am
    OUR OPINION: Tuition plans need 'political rocket fuel': Bipartisanship
    Both President Barack Obama and Minnesota State Sen. LeRoy Stumpf, DFL-Plummer, have drafted ambitious plans to let young people attend community...
    opinion / our opinionJanuary 25, 2015 - 5:00am
    LETTER: Current team name draws question: 'North Dakota what?'
    Former Herald Publisher Mike Jacobs recently warned of revanchists, alluding to the efforts of Rep. Scott Louser, R-Minot, to prohibit UND from choosing a new name for its sports teams. (Revanchists fantasize that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe one day will give permission to UND to...
    opinion / lettersJanuary 25, 2015 - 4:45am
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