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Read NowColumns · 2017
Tax incentives have outlasted their usefulness
by HPR Contributor | Dec 13, 2017
By Tony Gehrig [email protected] I do not blame any company for seeking incentives. Rather, I blame the government for giving them away. Incentives represent…
Read NowReal disasters vs. fake assurances
by Charlie Barber | Dec 13, 2017
“…no clean power is without its drawbacks, and every kind of energy source has its pluses and minuses.”– Henry Petroski, author of “To Engineer…
Read NowPrivatizing air traffic control would cut off our communities
by HPR Contributor | Dec 6, 2017
By Matthew S. [email protected] Agriculture is critical to the economy of North Dakota. Today, about 90% of the state’s land is used for agriculture,…
Read NowFamily lawyers misleading public about shared parenting
by HPR Contributor | Dec 6, 2017
By Robert Franklin, Esq. [email protected] The latest information on North Dakota family courts comes from the organization Leading Women for Shared Parenting (LW4SP). It…
Read NowA thank you note for Vladimir Putin
by Charlie Barber | Nov 29, 2017
“…there is a hunger all over America for a discussion about economic truths, for a counterattack on the ferocious assaults that are taking place…
Read NowAn open letter to the white working class
by HPR Contributor | Nov 24, 2017
By Gary Olson [email protected] I’m writing this letter as the proud son of the working class. My father, who never attended college and was…
Read NowA gold star and a sad face for everyone
by HPR Contributor | Oct 25, 2017
By Anthony Paul [Editor’s note: This piece contains language that some readers may find offensive] It has been all over social media and the news…
Read NowReal ID
by Ben Lien | Oct 25, 2017
I have received several questions from constituents over the last couple of months regarding Minnesota’s compliance with the federal REAL ID law. The REAL…
Read NowTrump’s Fake Populism Exposes Republican Party’s Fake Conservatism
by Charlie Barber | Oct 18, 2017
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common…
Read NowAunt Deloris
by Jim Fuglie | Oct 11, 2017
Deloris Boehmer is my last living aunt. She’s the only remaining member of my parents’ generation in our family. She’s 88, and lives in…
Read NowSucceed 2020: Thank you, Hess Corporation
by Kirsten Baesler | Oct 11, 2017
In 2011, Hess Corporation announced a generous $25 million grant to improve North Dakota’s public education system. The grant, called Succeed 2020, aimed to…
Read NowPheasants and true Bliss
by Jim Fuglie | Oct 4, 2017
Next week I’ll join about 90,000 or so of my best friends on one of North Dakota’s favorite days, hunting pheasants on the opening…
Read NowRepeal but not replace
by HPR Contributor | Sep 27, 2017
By Jill Westerholm [email protected] The latest Affordable Care Act repeal by Republicans, the Graham-Cassidy bill, is reportedly now being pulled due to the good…
Read NowStudy: State’s parents back shared parenting; judges don’t
by HPR Contributor | Sep 20, 2017
By Robert Franklin, Esq. [email protected] In North Dakota, a child’s chances of spending meaningful time with each parent following divorce have less to do…
Read NowOne sleazy company
by Jim Fuglie | Sep 13, 2017
William Prentice, the slickster CEO of Meridian Energy, which wants to build an oil refinery 2 ½ miles from Theodore Roosevelt National Park, blew…
Read NowBureau of Land Management, ND Industrial Commission, and Slawson Exploration destroy a small town
by Jim Fuglie | Aug 30, 2017
There’s a little blue-collar resort community at the top of the Van Hook Arm of Lake Sakakawea, a couple hundred trailers and cabins and…
Read NowToxic statues and lethal statutes
by Charlie Barber | Aug 23, 2017
“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” – Edmund Burke “The history of the twentieth century has taught us that people who are…
Read NowThe bad guys aren’t in jail . . . yet
by Jim Fuglie | Aug 16, 2017
A few months ago I wrote about the long, strange saga of Jason Halek, the fellow who dumped 800,000 gallons of poisonous oilfield brine…
Read NowRefinery company to PSC: screw you!
by Jim Fuglie | Aug 5, 2017
Of all the sleazy companies to show up in North Dakota’s oil patch in the nearly ten years since the Bakken Boom began, the…
Read NowThe newest bridge over the Little Missouri State Scenic River
by Jim Fuglie | Aug 5, 2017
For the last 50 years or so, there have been just five places where you can drive your car across a bridge over the…
Read NowWhat I have learned working alongside new Americans
by Dawn Duncan | Aug 2, 2017
When I moved to this community 23 years ago from Dallas, Texas, I knew I would have much to learn. I was coming to…
Read NowThe three stooges of American dictatorship
by Charlie Barber | Jul 19, 2017
“…the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” – Milan Kundera
Read NowThe Little Missouri State Scenic River is in trouble again
by Jim Fuglie | Jun 28, 2017
The Little Missouri State Scenic River Act, passed by the 1975 Legislature, prohibited the use of Little Missouri water for industrial purposes.
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