Opinion 2024 - High Plains Reader Fargo, ND

Doomsday Clock is Ticking

by Ed Raymond | Dec 30, 2024

Would women be able to stop the clock—and possibly rewind it? Scientists who are members of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists who constantly study…

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Crimes with Little Guns and Huge Medical Bills

by Ed Raymond | Dec 20, 2024

“We have a for-profit health care system while the rest of the developed world has single-payer universal care. Why are we so damn stupid…

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‘No one wants to work anymore.’ Why?

by Sabrina Hornung | Dec 19, 2024

Identifying the problem is one step in the equation. Now how can we work together to solve it?

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Contracting and Deconstruction of Religion

by Ed Raymond | Dec 4, 2024

The battles between religion and science for many centuries have been chipping, rusting, rotting, and contracting and deconstructing churches and religions.

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Two contrasting visions of agriculture

by Curt Stofferahn | Dec 2, 2024

In June, two events markedly contrasted the difference between two different visions of agriculture: precision agriculture and regenerative agriculture

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Evolving from Homo Sapiens to AI

by Ed Raymond | Nov 23, 2024

With What is Happening in the World, Why not Artificial Intelligence? Since Lucy fell out of a tree and walked about four million years…

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How to maintain hope in difficult times

by Faye Seidler | Nov 23, 2024

We have the capacity to sort out our struggles, to survive hardship and to see kids smile. We are not fundamentally that different as…

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What the hell just happened

by Jim Fuglie | Nov 21, 2024

But I was pretty confident all along that Donald Trump was not going to be elected President of the United States. Dang. How did…

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November 5: The Battle between Love and Hate

by Ed Raymond | Nov 4, 2024

Let us hope that on November 5 a headless psychopath never gets near a nuclear button again.

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Don’t let it happen here

by Dina Butcher | Oct 25, 2024

When Donald Trump uses language to dehumanize us, his goal is to make it easier to turn against each other.

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Emancipation becomes ‘E-woman-cipation’

by Ed Raymond | Oct 21, 2024

"Reagan dreamed of 'shining cities on hills,' but his tax cutting policies [...] filled them with homeless families, hungry kids, and poverty-stricken parents."

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Think this through: Vote No on Measure 4

by HPR Contributor | Oct 21, 2024

"If you have made money, purchased land, house or houses, why not pay a tax, which then goes to support all of the benefits…

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Go home and slop the hogs: examples of anti-democratic efforts in North Dakota

by Curt Stofferahn | Oct 21, 2024

"...citizens in North Dakota are pushing back against perceived encroachments by legislative, administrative, and corporate entities..."

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Protecting the First Amendment and preserving the integrity of libraries

by HPR Contributor | Oct 17, 2024

Public libraries are making headlines nationwide and have become an unexpected target of efforts to limit individual rights, freedom of speech and critical thin

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Political chaos

by Jim Fuglie | Oct 16, 2024

There’s going to be an election pretty soon. A pretty important election. Vote. And cross your fingers. We don’t need chaos.

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Billionaires and the End Times

by Ed Raymond | Sep 19, 2024

Where will the homeless go when billionaires go to their bunkers?

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A lawyer in the governor’s office? Maybe.

by Jim Fuglie | Sep 19, 2024

It’s been 40 years since North Dakota had a lawyer in the governor’s chair. That could be coming to an end.

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What is the value of water?

by HPR Contributor | Sep 19, 2024

What do CO2 pipelines, hydrogen hubs, data centers and industrial ag have in common? Water.

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The little newspaper that could

by John Strand | Sep 19, 2024

We are the first editorially driven, non-subscription newspaper that survived. The first new newspaper in Fargo to survive more than 30 months in decades.

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