letters

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...

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...

WINNIPEG — The Herald’s story on the closing and auctioning off of the old border-crossing station at Noyes, Minn., brought back a lot of boyhood memories for me (“End of the line,” Page A1, July 10). My father was a career customs officer in Emerson, Man., as were the...

MENTOR, Minn. — On June 13, we had our 8th Annual LS Drywall, Inc./Sherwin-Williams Golf Scramble at Sandhill Golf Course in Fertile, Minn. It was a great time, and we raised $1,500 for the North Dakota School for the Blind. We’d like to thank the donors for their donations;...

GRAND FORKS — Later this summer, Congress will vote on a bill called the FIRST Act, which authorizes research funding for the National Science Foundation. The FIRST Act does some good things such as promoting computer science education, but it also slashes funding for social...

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...