‘We Are Receiving Complaints Almost Every Day,’ Sec. of State Says of North Dakota Voters First Ballot Measure
MINOT, N.D. — Earlier this month, I wrote a column about a complaint I'd received from a state lawmaker, among...
Month: June 2020
Afraid to Stop Clapping
MINOT, N.D. -- In his book, the "The Gulag Archipelago," Nobel Prize-winning Russian author and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recounted a...
Tornado Warnings, Free Speech and Early Voting
MINOT, N.D. — Welcome to Friday, you lovely people. Another week has come and gone, and that means another column...
Can Businesses Be Sued for Trying to Be Good Samaritans During the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Both North Dakota and the nation are grappling with the task of returning our society to some semblance of normal...
It’s Easy to Support Violence When It’s Not Happening to You
MINOT, N.D. — "Only riots, burning result in action," reads the headline over a column by former North Dakota Lt....
Plain Talk: “To Say That Money Buys Elections in North Dakota Is a Little Bit Insulting to the People of North Dakota,” Says Burgum
On this episode of Plain Talk, Gov. Doug Burgum addressed criticism he's faced for spending millions, much of it his...
Plain Talk: ‘It Definitely Got Weird,’ Beadle Says of Hotly-Contested State Treasurer’s Race
The political parties didn't hold their traditional biannual state conventions. The candidates were constrained in their ability to campaign in...
Despite Burgum’s Money, Primary Races Mostly Played Out as Expected
MINOT, N.D. — It's the day after an election day, which means it's the time when losing candidates must scramble...
We Must Have Police Departments
MINOT, N.D. — There is a movement afoot to disband or defund America's police departments. This is a gross overreaction,...
We Have to Leave Some Room for Redemption
UPDATE: I took a much deeper look at this situation involving Julia Vetter and Brynn Nieukirk which you can read here....
