Opinion

It has been said that money is at the root of all evil. Our political process requires so much money, upwards of $8 billion dollars for the most recent 2022 off-year election, that it is also rooted in evil. The evil arises from what is asked either subtly or overtly…

March is agriculture month. Agriculture affects everyone in some way or another and it is such a big part of North Dakota.

How can you not love it? The blood, sweat, tears, and petulance. The first two are a given. Head butts in the arena. Spatters on the mat. The locker room stench of soiled lucky socks, the sweet wafting odor of sacrifice and accomplishment.

You don’t have to drive far to see ghost towns on the Northern Plains. Sometimes I idly wonder why one town died and why its neighbor didn’t.

I might be the only 56 year-old two-year-old I know. I’m certainly symptomatic of a two-year-old as far as asking “Why” goes.

Some people criticize Christianity for our teaching on forgiving….Turning the other Check!

A recent news story caught my attention. A Hamline (Minnesota) University professor was fired for showing images of Muhammad in a class about Islamic art. The professor was careful to warn students, on a number of occasions, that the art would be shown and if offended they could leave the…

Neither you nor I can argue that the world has gotten itself into so many pickles that it’s become a whole pickle factory. Nobody really knows who the CEO of the pickle factory is – which complicates things excessively. I decided I wanted nothing to do with pickles so I…

Ah, we meet again, as many of us have since 1991. Remember the ‘Sixties warning—don’t trust anyone over 30? What would they say about someone who’s been ‘opinionating’ longer than that (and, in the process, inventing words)?

It’s human nature. When everything’s working no one notices. In the news business, we’re criticized for being negativity-driven, and that’s fair. When the plane doesn’t crash, it’s not news.