Letter to the editor: Road task force should travel the county’s roads
“Caution,” the new signage posted on County Road 62 south, warns those who need to travel it, of its ever-deteriorating condition. It’s horrendous, like many other Stutsman County roads.
Letter to the editor: Paul is the right candidate to get America going right
Ron Paul is not only honest, consistent and unselfish but he has actual ability to reverse this horrible economic mess we find ourselves in — after all, he understands it.
Letter to the editor: Berg should be worried about 2012 Farm Bill
I don’t know if everyone caught his statement. But for those farmers and ranchers who missed it, our congressman who wants to be a senator said, “I doubt there’s going to be much done in the next 10 months” on the farm bill because “everyone is worried about elections.”
Letter to the editor: Taylor showed leadership with Minot flood aftermath
On Jan. 20, Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and John Hoeven, R-N.D., were in Minot announcing the $77 million they secured for Minot and Ward County through a federal Community Development Block Grant.
Watch out for rising land values
Average North Dakota farmland values, for purposes of taxation, have increased 29 percent. Property taxes on that land should not automatically be allowed to increase by the same amount, and that’s what will happen if local governments don’t reduce their level of taxation accordingly.
Hoeven’s pipeline strategy pays off
The evidence is in: North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven picked the right issue on which to step to the front and take a leadership role among Senate Republicans.
Letter to the editor: Sanitation workers deserve community’s appreciation
How often as citizens of Jamestown do we take things for granted? We take our garbage out and our sanitation workers pick it up.
Build a foundation for growth
North Dakota communities sitting on the edge of an expanding Bakken oil play can see trouble coming — in the form of pressure on their water and sewer systems, law enforcement, planning and zoning and other key local services. What’s a town to do?
Cramer throws a curveball
Kevin Cramer has been a party man all his political life. A former North Dakota Republican Party chairman and executive director, he’s run for public office several times as a loyal party member and with the imprimatur of the party apparatus.
Cramer confounds nominating process
By announcing that he will bypass the Republican endorsing convention and go straight to the party primary in his quest for a U.S. House seat, Public Service Commissioner Kevin Cramer has thrown the party endorsing process into turmoil.
Priceless public N.D. land in jeopardy
It’s sobering to realize that of the 1.2 million acres in North Dakota’s treasured Little Missouri Badlands, only pockets totaling about 60,000 acres remain pristine enough to qualify as wilderness.
Letter to the editor: HHS health care decision violates First Amendment
I write concerning an alarming and serious matter that negatively and directly impacts the Catholic Church in the United States, and strikes at the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of any faith. The federal government, which claims to be “of, by, and for the people,” has dealt a heavy blow to almost a quarter of those people — the Catholic population — and to the millions more who are served by the Catholic faithful.
Letter to the editor:Keystone XL claims should be met with skepticism
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Heidi Heitkamp joined Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., in calling for quick building of the Keystone XL pipeline. She is using the same arguments as Hoeven: it will create jobs, reduce our dependency on Mideast oil and carry North Dakota oil to market, reducing our dangerous truck traffic.
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