Guest Columnist

After one week in first grade, my daughter came home with a conclusion about life: “Life is hard and then you die.” She had homework. Fast forward that through job losses, divorces, chronic ailments and family tragedies for 60 years and we are on the cusp of old age. She was right.

Legislative Update

It is difficult to know what to put in this report as we are at that point in Session where it is do or die for legislation put before us. This week we finished the last bills in Judiciary and started with conference committees.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1771 (Bass drum beaten loudly) “Booth led boldly with his big bass drum— (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?) The Saints smiled gravely and they said: ‘He’s come.’ (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Pieces of Possibility

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” - Mother Teresa In the sweet possibility of every precious moment lies the courtesy of sacred alignment.

Little Things

Where does a young person start a career? During my first year at Moorhead State I worked in the college cafeteria (my first non-farm job). It did not pay much but I knew I would always have something to eat. I worked diligently at the tasks given me in the kitchen, whether serving food or cleaning.

Dakota Datebook

Yankton loses capital by Merry Helm April 5, 2021 — By the 1880s, Dakota Territory’s population was concentrated in very separate regions. In the far north, Pembina was made up of fur traders, trappers, hunters and people of mixed blood.

Valley News & Views Editorial

There is so much going on in our society today perhaps we have forgotten how to go about the business of living. We have spent the last year plus worrying about everything related to Covid-19. We have worried about how to keep ourselves and others healthy and safe.

Ride like the wind...

The spring weather seems to have hit and with the warmer temperatures it is time to start enjoying the outdoors more. Last year my husband bought me a new bicycle, this is something that I had been looking at for a few years.

…it all sounded so simple…

It all sounds so simple when you decide on a plan, it is only after you put said plan into motion that you realize very few things in life are truly simple. First, we thought we would convert our beautiful thirty-sixinch propane cooktop to natural gas.

WalletHub Rains on Investment Parade

Just when the legislature was ready to break open the $8 billion Legacy Fund egg, an organization called WalletHub came out with a study that demeaned North Dakota’s ability to innovate, perhaps suggesting that we weren’t a very good opportunity for major venture capital investment after all.