letters

DULUTH — Recently, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission held a Prehearing Status and Scheduling Conference to revise the Sandpiper Pipeline Project schedule. Public hearings are expected to take place in January, with an expected PUC decision to follow in the spring. This...

BISMARCK — Before advocates for unregulated abortion make outrageous claims about Measure 1, they should try to to understand the law and the measure. Cody Stanley accuses Judy Stahl of a “gross misunderstanding of the law,” but it is Stanley who appears to not understand...

DEVILS LAKE — President Barack Obama wants $3.7 billion from Congress to help speed up the processing of 57,000 Central American children who have made it into the United States. He is constrained by a law authored by a Democrat (Diane Feinstein of California) and signed by...

GRAND FORKS — As I read Cody Stanley’s letter, “N.D.’s most dangerous legislation ever,” I couldn’t help but think that Measure 1 offers North Dakotans the same dilemma that existed with the events that led to our own Civil War: two irreconcilable “rights.” Measure...

GRAND FORKS — I must respond to the misleading claims made by Judy Stahl in her letter (“N.D. Constitution needs Right to Life Amendment,” Page F2, July 6). Stahl tries to gloss over the many disastrous effects that Measure 1 would inflict on North Dakotans....

FARGO — As Americans take the time to celebrate our nation’s independence with friends and family, the U.S. military is at the ready to serve and protect our great nation. As a way to increase energy security and reduce energy costs, the Department of Defense has...

ELBOW LAKE, Minn. — Many who have worked hard and done right by life have known that the subject of a wealth tax would eventually be broached in this country. There is even some clamor for a global wealth tax (“Rein in America’s oligarchs: Tax their wealth,” letter,...

MESA, Ariz. — This letter is in response to Jay Taylor’s letter on raising tobacco taxes (“For health’s sake, raise North Dakota’s tobacco tax,” Page A4, July 3). I wonder if Taylor realizes that according to the Centers for Disease Control, alcohol abuse costs North...

DICKINSON, N.D. — Any fool can level a butte. After all, buttes can’t run away. In the conversation about fracking in western North Dakota, we often speak of what’s underground rather than what’s within eyesight. For much of this summer I have been walking throughout...

MAHNOMEN, Minn. — As the dust settles on the 2014 Legislative Session, it is important to recognize some very positive things that were accomplished for Greater Minnesota. One encouraging outcome was the result of the work that Sen. LeRoy Stumpf, DFL-Plummer, did this year in...

GRAND FORKS — I read with interest the Herald’s story, “Three finalists announced to lead UND nursing college” (Page A3, July 2). It is a particularly difficult position due to a constellation of problems that have not been addressed, some of which were unfairly attributed...

GRAND FORKS — This is in response to the Herald story that suggests the UND Communication Program is not accredited (“Department focuses on rebuilding,” Page A1, July 7). As UND’s communication student academic advisor, I’d like to clarify the story’s reporting. The...

ST. PAUL — I just can’t stop thinking and smiling about the recent events in the Devils Lake area to commemorate Rachel Calof. Calof, my grandmother, was a Jewish bride who emigrated from Russia to the plains of North Dakota, and who documented her life of raising...

FARGO — Isn’t it time that we put a Statue of Liberty on the southern border? “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” the engraving on the statue declares. Meanwhile, our only sculpture on the southern border is the border...

VALLEY CITY, N.D. — Measure 1 will be on the ballot in November. It would amend the North Dakota Constitution to read, “The inalienable right to life of any human being at any stage of development must be recognized and protected.” Measure 1 itself does not make...