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I am responding to Steven Morrison’s column, “Personhood amendments amount to bad medicine” (Page A4, Jan. 14). In it, Morrison tries to tie personhood amendments to a case in Connecticut in which the state Supreme Court ruled that a 17-year-old girl must undergo chemotherapy...

Tuesday, Jan. 13. Opening the Herald Editorial Page to the likes of: Former Publisher Mike Jacobs recounting the North Dakota Legislature's first week, including Tribal Council Chairman David Archambault's graphic depiction of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's predicament, the...

North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp's active for promotion of the Keystone XL Pipeline is a disappointment for progressive North Dakotans who have supported her since was our attorney general. If constructed, the Keystone XL will carry highly toxic and dangerous oil-tar sludge through...

Given all the important issues before North Dakota legislators this year, you'd think they'd have their hands full with serious legislation. Not Rep. Roscoe Streyle, R-Minot. Despite our enormous infrastructure needs and the once-in-a-generation chance to invest in our future,...

Regarding the Keystone XL pipeline, I encourage Herald readers to research the tar sands oil production in Alberta, Canada. For example, some websites show aerial views of the tar sands oil production. Tar sands oil production is a lot different than Bakken oil production: Producing...

I've seen the news stories about the proposals to make sure North Dakota students learn more about civics and our past. I very much appreciate the renewed interest, but I have to ask: Where did those requirements go in the first place? When I went to school, American history and...

I love snow days, but the problem is that the schools now are considering windy days as blizzards. This past "blizzard" should've been a normal day, because when the schools were dismissing at 11:30 a.m., it looked like a normal, blustery North Dakota day, NOT a "blizzard." It...

Item No. 171 on my interminable list of things I' m trying to understand: Boko Haram. If they were the old Cold War Commies of yesteryear, we would have drones and "stealth" aircraft blanketing the area — and these guys aren't even trying to avoid detection. They're committing...

According to Sen. Lonnie Laffen, R-Grand Forks, North Dakota's oil tax structure needs to be changed, and Democrats are to blame for the failure to do this in the past ("Let's not play politics with oil taxes," column, Page A4, Jan. 8). Laffen needs to be schooled up on the political...

I was sitting on pins and needles to see which legislator would be the first say something dumb about the UND nickname. Thank you, Rep. Scott Louser, R-Minot, for playing the fool this session. His move was special. His HB 1155 won't let anything be done with the nickname for 2½...

The mandate of a health department is to protect the health and welfare of the people who live in its jurisdiction. That being said, I am baffled as to why the North Dakota Health Department is proposing a tenfold increase in the allowed picocuries in radioactive waste. Exactly...

Do the legislators who are proposing the bill to eliminate sobriety checkpoints remember the families who have been killed in our area because of drunk drivers? I would think that families in Grafton, N.D., would be thankful that law enforcement cares for their safety. Is it...

Before the election, politicians of all parties vowed to get to the "root cause" of the chaos within the Veterans Administration health care system. But since the election, have Herald readers heard much about that topic? And has anything changed, or does the monolithic bureaucracy...

As the snow and the cold blow outside, it's time to thank our hard-working legislators from both parties. While we can and do disagree with their views, most if not all are hard-working, conscientious individuals who are serving the public good. Sen. Ray Holmberg, R-Grand Forks,...

FARGO — This is an open letter to the North Dakota legislators. As they start this new session I ask them to reflect on the Gospel message of “May your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.” Those who call themselves Christian have a responsibility to bring this about through...