Friday Mailbag: How We Count COVID-19 Deaths, Why the Legislature Isn’t Responding to the Pandemic, and More
MINOT, N.D. — It's finally Friday, and also the day when North Dakota businesses can begin a "smart restart" (to...
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The Best Thing We Could Do for Those Facing Evictions Is Get the Economy Back to Normal
MINOT, N.D. — I was happy to see the justices of the North Dakota Supreme Court steer themselves back into their...
Public Records Show Democratic Legislative Candidate Was Dismissed From UND for Having Romantic Relationship With a Student
MINOT, N.D. -- Jacqueline "Jackie" Hoffarth is a social worker and Democratic candidate from Grand Forks running for the North...
Rate of Positive Cornavirus Remains Relatively Steady Even During Spike in Number of Tests
MINOT, N.D. -- Gov. Doug Burgum has been talking about the need for widespread testing for the COVID-19 virus as...
Can We Stop Hating One Another Long Enough to Get Through This?
MINOT, N.D. — To hear my friend Tony Bender put it, those questioning the timeline of government-ordered pandemic restrictions are "troglodytes"...
North Dakota’s Finances Were Strong Before the Coronavirus, but There Are Signs of Trouble in the Most Recent Revenue Report
MINOT, N.D. -- What will the impact of coronavirus be on North Dakota's general fund budget? We know it's going...
Get That Scalpel Out, Gov. Burgum
We're not ready for a widescale re-opening. That would be a sledgehammer move. The empirical evidence suggests, however, that we...
Minot’s Former City Manager Harassed Employees for Years, but the Taxpayers Will Still Have to Pay Him
MINOT, N.D. — Yesterday, city leaders in Minot finally did something about a terrible situation with (now former) City Manager Tom Barry....
At What Point Are We All Just Americans?
MINOT, N.D. -- Recently, my colleague, reporter April Baumgarten, wrote on the efforts of academics at three North Dakota colleges...
Mailbag Questions About SBA Loans, Unemployment, the Keystone XL Pipeline, and an Old Science Fiction Book
MINOT, N.D. -- Welcome to another Friday, and another mailbag column. How are you all doing out there? These are...
