My two cents | My trip home... By Mike Alan Steinfeldt

My mom has been in and out of the hospital since being diagnosed with a heart condition late last fall. She has been in the care of my sister for all this time.

Did Bazooka Joe have a cellphone?...By Bob Simmons

As I pen this week’s column I just received a press release from North Dakota School Superintendent Kirsten Baesler regarding legislation to remove the use of cell phones by students while in class. The bills are SB2354 and HB1160.

Legislative report

This week winter threatens to come back. Uffda is the only proper response to that. Yet I hear some AG producers in the Southeastern part of our state are already in the field seeding. Feels like those of us up north live in a different state.

Life in the slow lane?|

Those who are old enough may remember a show called Kids Say the Darndest Things with Art Linkletter as the host. In this program children were asked questions, and you never knew what they were going to say.

Along the way

|Walking a thin line between peace and absorption, one finds solace in the cradle of nature’s embrace and faith’s applications. There is no respite in the corridors of disconnection, there is only silence in its perpetration.

Letter to the Editor

With all the news about DEI these days, I have to wonder if people really understand what it stands for and the changes it has brought to our society.

Bowesmont lives...By Saralee Hoselton

On March 10, Saralee Hoselton took the PCMT van to the Grand forks Airport where she boarded a plane for Mesa. She was met at the airport by a Crystal (McFarland) Bekman, former Drayton resident and now of Sioux Falls.

From the publisher | An unforeseen part II

In my column last week, I wrote about a resolution that the North Dakota legislatures passed that had the intention of getting the attention of, and resulting positive action from, the Postmaster General.

The N-PEN...By Bob Simmons

It’s time for ACTION, and I have a plan for the Cold War relic located at Nekoma, ND. For anyone reading who isn’t familiar, Nekoma is home to the former Safeguard Missile Site that was active for a short period of time in the mid 1970s before it was mothballed.

My two cents | Don’t sell your history books, part III...By Mike Alan Steinfeldt

As I mentioned before, the U.S. Dakota war wasn’t much of a war. It began with atrocities against the white settlement population of the Minnesota River Valley in the early 1860s.