letters

I'd like to send a big thank you to Jon Cichos with Jamestown Plumbing and Heating for the excellent service he performed on my furnace and water heater on a bitterly cold day in March this year.It was so cold I didn't think I was gonna make it. My house was freezing, my water heater...

During Holy Week we focus on the suffering of Christ and tend to fault the fickleness of the Jews who cried “Hosanna” one week and “Crucify him” the next. As we sing, “Were You There,” we may think we would never have been a part of that crowd. Yet, collectively as a nation,...

The week of April 14-20 is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, a week that has occurred every April since 1981 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994. NPSTW honors the men and women who serve as 911 public safety dispatchers and recognizes and thanks them...

I grew up the youngest of nine children. My father was an executive engineer, my mother a full-time homemaker. We didn’t have extra money, that is certain, but my dad loved history and stressed the importance of learning as much as we could about the past. We took summer vacations...

State Rep. Craig Headland, R-Montpelier, has resurrected his bad idea. The North Dakota Legislature is again considering using the Legacy Fund to eliminate the already minimal North Dakota income tax. It seems strange to talk about reducing taxes after watching the current session...

On behalf of all dog walkers who walk our beloved dogs at Meidinger Park and all the other walkers, thank you to the Jamestown Parks Department! Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, we got more snow, and just when we thought the park employees couldn’t open the walking...

I express my very sincere thanks to Lyman and Cory Keim, owners of Bison 6 Cinema, for bringing in the movie “Unplanned”.Severe critics and uninformed people have labeled this movie as “anti-abortion propaganda”. How can a movie, based on a true story of someone that worked...

I just completed my annual tax returns and wonder if I’m being hoodwinked or am just plain stupid. Right now I would get the same satisfaction if I just took the tax money out in the back yard and burnt it. The options would support either the accepted level of graft and corruption...

For those in the North Dakota House who supported this bill, it’s either a reenactment of ignorance or tone-deaf arrogance! Just two short years ago, the Legislature backed by the Farm Bureau, attempted to undo the corporate farming law that was enacted in the early 1930s to protect...

I was very disappointed to read in the April 2 edition of The Jamestown Sun that the North Dakota legislative leadership had decided to allow a Hindu prayer that was heard on April 1 (House) and on April 2 (Senate). Since the founding of the state, legislative sessions have mostly...

First of all, a huge thanks to Bison 6 Cinema for showing the movie “Unplanned” in Jamestown for two weeks. Secondly, my wife and I watched the movie in Arizona. I don't want to give away the story, however just a few comments, especially how the so-called Planned Parenthood...

Each April, we celebrate the passage of the Fair Housing Act. The act passed seven days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and is one of his most important legacies. King advocated for the passage of the Fair Housing Act, noting that decades of discriminatory...

I think our government officials in Bismarck are confusing wants with needs. A new Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library is not needed. It would undoubtedly be popular for a few years then turn into a big and expensive to maintain big "white elephant" out on the prairie. What's really...

By the | Jamestown I’m writing as a follow-up to Pastor Tom Eckstein’s April 2 letter to the editor concerning the movie “Unplanned.” “Unplanned” has now been “planned” for Jamestown. The movie about Abbey Johnson, Planned Parenthood clinic director who became a pro-life...

I encourage the people of Jamestown to see the movie "Unplanned" which is about Abby Johnson, who was the youngest clinic director in the history of Planned Parenthood, one of America's largest abortion providers. However, after Abby Johnson viewed an actual abortion via ultrasound,...