December 2nd, 2025
By Ed Raymond
Why not put all of our gold at Fort Knox to common good?
With all of the gold and marble Donald Trump has been splattering and gluing around the White House and Oval Office, why don’t we put all of that gold in Fort Knox, Kentucky at work on Capitol Hill and the White House and the new ballroom? Why not have the Secretary of the Treasury bid on the solid gold toilet put up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York City on November 18? The bidding started…
November 24th, 2025
By Ed Raymond
Democrats have MAGA, MAHA, MAWF, and Trumplicans to fight
My favorite analyst of things religious and political is Finton O’Toole who uses plain English, curses, temper, and knowledge to make a point. He has just published the autopsy of the death of the Democratic Party in the 2024 presidential election in the New York Review of Bookstitled “The Lingering Delusion.”
As he examined the dementia of President Joe Biden and the empathy and policies…
November 18th, 2025
By Ed Raymond
Will the Vatican ever love LBGTQUIA+ with open hearts and minds?
Christians have been hot and bothered by sex for 2,000 years and Catholic popes, cardinals, bishops, priests and nuns have been flummoxing Catholics on their knees in pews or in confessionals forevermore. Will the Vatican ever evolve to enroll all members of the human race? In early days we have the Prophet Paul stating celibacy is preferable to marriage because “it’s better to marry…
November 12th, 2025
By Ed Raymond
Who will write “The Rise and Fall of the Third Trumpidiotocracy?”
Chicago-born William L. Shirer was 30 when he covered a major Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany in 1934 for theNew York Herald Tribune. By 1938, he had become one of Edward R. Murrow’s “Murrow’s Boys” of CBS Radio and was covering Hitler’s annexation of Austria in March of 1938. By 1940, he had become so well-known in Germany that the Nazis kept feeding him propaganda…
November 3rd, 2025
By Ed Raymond
A Supreme Court umpire should call for replays on every act
For more than 20 years I have been wondering what makes Chief Justice John Roberts tick. During a Senate confirmation hearing he slid and slud around this rather mysterious comparison of two jobs, the umpire in softball or baseball games or judge in traffic or war crimes court. He dazzled senators with this statement: “Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them.…
October 28th, 2025
By Ed Raymond
Another public health crisis besides guns: lack of empathy
The Sisters of Charity have finally had enough of their Trumper boss, Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. One of the most prominent congregations of nuns in the United States founded to celebrate the naming of the first American Catholic saint, it has been around since 1846, operating orphanages, nursing homes, hospitals and spent Civil War time nursing wounded veterans. Dolan had…
October 20th, 2025
By Ed Raymond
That old time religion, filled with love, is no longer good enough
In the first “Inherit the Wind” movie about religion and evolution starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly, the theme hymn “Give me that old time religion” had these lines: “Give me that old time religion/It’s good enough for me/It was good for my mother/It was good for my father/ It was good for the Hebrew children/It will do when we are dying/It’s good…
October 6th, 2025
By Ed Raymond
Will we be banging or whimpering at the end of the American empire?
T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” accurately portrays the end of most empires in his first lines:
“We are the hollow men/ We are the stuffed men/ Leaning together/ Headpiece filled with straw/ Alas! Our dried voices, when we whisper together/ Are quiet and meaningless/ As wind in dry grass or rat’s feet over broken glass in our dry cellar/ Shape without form, shade without…
September 29th, 2025
By Ed Raymond
John Roberts: what will you do about the monster you’ve created?
Like Dr. Frankenstein, you and your Trumplican cohorts in the operating room of the United States Supreme Court created a monster with “beautiful” hair, a lying mouth, and a malignant narcissistic brain who claims he is a genius and promises the world “I alone can do it, I am president of the United States — and I can do anything I want.”
A New Yorker cartoon reminds us of how…
September 16th, 2025
By Ed Raymond
What are the four freedoms of Donald John Trump?
Nearly a century ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said every citizen in the United States of America should have four freedoms: Freedom from want and fear, freedom of speech and freedom of worship. In 2025, President Donald John Trump has demonstrated his four freedoms: Freedom from truth, constitutional law, empathy and freedom of Christian Nationalism, cruelty and torture.
On August 26, the CEO…
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By Bryce Vincent Haugen By his own account, Edwin Chinchilla is lucky to still be in the United States. As a 12-year-old Salvadoran, he and his brother were packed into a semi with a couple dozen other people and given fake…
By Michael M. Miller Rev. Salomon Joachim, pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Beulah, North Dakota., delivered an address to the Western Conference of the Dakota District of the American Lutheran Church in 1939. His presentation was…
Wednesday, March 25, Group lesson 7 p.m., Dance 9 p.m.Sons of Norway, 722 2nd Avenue North, FargoCare to dance? If you don’t already know how to dance, the Northern Lights Dance Club can show you a thing or two about social…
By John StrandDisclaimer: This editorial is the work of someone who’s spent most of his adult life working in the media — most of those years co-owning this very entity, the High Plains Reader, since 1996. The notion that folks…
By Ed RaymondThe bells are ringing for everybody on the planet As ICE, the worst of the worst law enforcement agencies in the Divided States of America, continues to use unconstitutional procedures to find the worst of the worst…
By Rick Gionrickgion@gmail.com Holiday wine shopping shouldn’t have to be complicated. But unfortunately it can cause unneeded anxiety due to an overabundance of choices. Don’t fret my friends, we once again have you covered…
By Sabrina Hornung There’s a Bosnian saying that states simply, “It’s a sin to throw away bread,” which really resonates with me — especially growing up with grandparents who lived through the Second World War and the Great…
The Slow Death at The AquariumSaturday, March 21, doors at 7:30 p.m. The Aquarium above Dempsey’s, 226 N. Broadway, FargoThe Slow Death is a punk supergroup led by Jesse Thorson, with members and collaborators that include…
By Sabrina HornungJD Provorse is a horror movie enthusiast and Fargo-based podcast host. Both he and cohost Michelle Roller have a comedy background and started the wildly entertaining podcast “We Watch Shudder” in 2022 as an…
By Jacinta ZensGraffiti is something we all see routinely on trains as they pass through the metro. If you pay attention even a little bit, you will notice that some graffiti pieces on train cars look much better than others in…
Saturday, January 31, 6:30-9 p.m.Transfiguration Fitness, 764 34th St. N., Unit P, FargoAn enchanting evening celebrating movement and creativity in a staff-student showcase. This is a family-friendly event showcasing pole, aerial…
By Annie Prafckeannieprafcke@gmail.com AUSTIN, Texas – As a Chinese-American, connecting to my culture through food is essential, and no dish brings me back to my mother’s kitchen quite like hotdish. Yes, you heard me right –…
By Sabrina Hornungsabrina@hpr1.comNew Jamestown Brewery Serves up Local FlavorThere’s something delicious brewing out here on the prairie and it just so happens to be the newest brewery west of the Red River and east of the…
By Ellie Liverani In November 2025, the FDA initiated the removal of the “black box” warning from Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). The “black box” warning is a FAD safety warning for healthcare providers and patients…
January 31, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.Viking Ship Park, 202 1st Ave. N., Moorhead2026 marks 10 years of frosty fun! Enjoy sauna sessions with Log the Sauna, try Snowga (yoga in the snow), take a guided snowshoe nature hike, listen to live…
By Jim FuglieI’m feeling a little mean right now. It doesn’t happen often, but I tend to pay attention to politics and politicians and I’m pretty disappointed in one of our politicians right now. So I’m going to be mean to…
