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    July 3, 2018
    Flags fly at half-staff at Hector International Airport in Fargo in honor of the Colorado shooting victims. David Samson / The Forum
    Commentary: We should stop lowering the flags for mass shootings
    Last night the Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump was refusing to order the nation’s flags lowered as a gesture to the awful...
    opinion/columnsJuly 3, 2018 - 9:54am
    June 21, 2018
    North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (left) and Lt. Gov. Brent Sanford stand outside the White House Thursday, June 8, 2017, before attending meetings on infrastructure. Video screenshot courtesy of the governor's office.
    Commentary: Governor Burgum says he’d send National Guard troops to the border if asked
    One element of the political posturing around the issue of President Donald Trump’s new zero tolerance policy at the southern border, which...
    opinion/columnsJune 21, 2018 - 10:06am
    June 6, 2018
    Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is cheered on by delegates at her nomination for the United States Senate at the 2018 ND Democratic convention. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
    Commentary: Poll: Heitkamp approval goes underwater among North Dakotans, 50 percent say elect someone else
    Morning Consult has released their monthly tracking polling of key states in the midterm elections, and much like last month it’s ugly news...
    opinion/columnsJune 6, 2018 - 8:31am
    May 29, 2018
    Senator Heidi Heitkamp in a campaign ad in which she embraces a comparison to battery acid. YouTube
    Commentary: As Native American voters abandon her, Democrat Heitkamp touts comparison to a caustic chemical
    “I take ‘battery acid’ as a compliment,” Senator Heidi Heitkamp says in her latest campaign ad. It’s supposed to be a positive ad –...
    opinion/columnsMay 29, 2018 - 9:25am
    May 20, 2018
    Will Gardner accepts the party's endorsement for Secretary of State at the 2018 NDGOP state convention at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks. photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
    Commentary: The NDGOP cannot stand behind a convicted peeping Tom
    UPDATE: Gardner has withdrawn from the race, though as I note below I don’t believe he can get his name off of the primary ballot at this time....
    opinion/columnsMay 20, 2018 - 12:01pm
    May 9, 2018
    Commentary: I went back to the man who hit me. Why?
    It's been a quarter-century, and I can still hear clearly the sound of my voice that night. It wavered with a plaintive, childish note as I spoke...
    opinion/columnsMay 9, 2018 - 11:23pm
    Mike McFeely
    Commentary: We've heard your concerns about Port's obsession with Sen. Heitkamp
    FARGO — Yes, valuable readers of Forum Communications Co. properties, we hear you. Rob Port, the company's conservative blogger/columnist,...
    opinion/columnsMay 9, 2018 - 3:45pm
    May 4, 2018
    Avengers Infinity War logo. Wikimedia Commons
    Commentary: 'Avengers: Infinity War' is a profoundly sad portrait of an abusive family
    I've seen "Avengers: Infinity War" twice now, and though much of the film's cacophony has faded rather quickly, there's one scene in particular...
    opinion/columnsMay 4, 2018 - 10:58am
    April 30, 2018
    Michelle Wolf speaks during the White House Correspondent's Dinner. YouTube
    Commentary: Hiring comedians to insult Republicans is not how journalists will regain the trust of Americans
    In January of this year Gallup released a poll showing 84 percent of Americans thinking the press is very important to the health of our democracy,...
    opinion/columnsApril 30, 2018 - 12:29pm
    April 27, 2018
    Gov. Doug Burgum dishes out high-fives during his visit with Fargo Lincoln Elementary fourth grade students on Tuesday, April 24. David Samson / Forum News Service
    Commentary: Why can’t the North Dakota University System be satisfied with a 31 percent increase in funding for a 7 percent increase in students?
    At a State Board of Higher Education meeting yesterday there was a lot of griping among some board members about Governor Doug Burgum’s suggested...
    opinion/columnsApril 27, 2018 - 10:02am
    April 25, 2018
    Senator Heidi Heitkamp, appearing in her first television ad of the 2018 election cycle which is a re-run of an ad she ran in 2012.
    Commentary: Senator Heidi Heitkamp begins biggest campaign of her political life…with a recycled ad from 2012?
    Incumbent Democrat Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s campaign is out with their first ad of the 2018 election cycle, and I think the (mostly out of...
    opinion/columnsApril 25, 2018 - 10:19am
    April 16, 2018
    Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is cheered on by delegates at her nomination for the Senate at the North Dakota Democratic convention. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
    Commentary: After attacking Cramer as 'scam artist,' turns out Sen. Heitkamp has also paid her family with campaign cash
    For months now North Dakota Democrats have been viciously attacking Congressman Kevin Cramer, challenger to incumbent Senate Democrat Heidi Heitkamp,...
    opinion/columnsApril 16, 2018 - 1:09pm
    April 13, 2018
    File photo of FBI Director Robert Mueller testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, June 13, 2013. (Christopher Gregory/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Commentary: Comey is the sideshow. Mueller is the main event.
    Former FBI director James Comey may have the most diverse group of critics of anyone caught up in the Russia investigations. Hillary Clinton's...
    opinion/columnsApril 13, 2018 - 11:04am
    April 12, 2018
    Mary Wakefield, who served in the Obama administration as acting deputy secretary of health and human Services, cheers on Sen. Heidi Heitkamp at Saturday's Democratic convention. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
    Commentary: Poll: Heitkamp approval has gone from 60% to 47% over last four quarters
    According to new polling released by Morning Consult, Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp has seen a significant drop in her approval numbers as...
    opinion/columnsApril 12, 2018 - 8:07am
    April 5, 2018
    A bucket of rocks
    sports/outdoorsApril 5, 2018 - 7:02am
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