I don’t blame hospitals for reticence to release vaccination numbers
MINOT, N.D. — Some hospitals in our region are doing well in terms of getting their staff vaccinated. "At Fargo’s Sanford hospitals, 95%...
Month: October 2021
It shouldn’t be this hard to use North Dakota money to help North Dakotans
MINOT, N.D. — North Dakota lawmakers will meet next month to approve a new map created by the redistricting process,...
Proposed policy at UND would classify misgendering as discrimination
MINOT, N.D. — When it comes to the conflict over gender identity, and pronouns, I come down on the side of...
Forget term limits, how about a cognitive test for politicians?
MINOT, N.D. — A petition campaign to implement term limits will be a big part of the debate in the coming election...
Conservatives believe they can use big government to win the culture war
MINOT, N.D. — The conservatism of my youth, the sort of conservatism I still believe in and subscribe to today,...
NDGOP may move its state convention to after the June primary
MINOT, N.D. — North Dakota's two major political parties, the Democratic-NPL and the Republican Party, hold their state conventions in the spring of...
Capitalism produces a bit of wonder amid the cynicism
MINOT, N.D. — "What you’ve given me is the most profound experience I can imagine," said the nonagenarian who had...
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem needs to own these legal failures
MINOT, N.D. — I'm going to begin this column with some convoluted back story. Stay with me, because the point...
Friday Mailbag: Vaccination choice, school dress-up days, oil pipelines, and innumeracy of the national debt debate
MINOT, N.D. — When I was a kid, I didn't like the fall. It meant going back to school, and...
As important as vaccines are, we cannot abandon choice
MINOT, N.D. — A reader emailed me this week telling me he'd been spending some time thinking about the actions...
