Looking Down Main

The world is going to end on inauguration day. The world is going to turn into the Garden of Eden on inauguration day. It does not seem like anyone can see any middle ground anymore.

Guest Columnist

When the U.S. Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787, the delegates came thinking their job was to amendment the Articles of Confederation.

Letter to the Editor

In November of 1620, the passengers aboard the Mayflower penned a revolutionary agreement now known as the Mayflower Compact.

Pastor Leroy’s Column

Election Day has come and gone. The ballots have been cast (with the possible exception of those voting in cemeteries and car trunks), and the man who is to be president for the next four years has been chosen. Some people are jubilant, while others are distraught.

Earl Pomeroy and the Dem-NPL golden years

On Nov. 2, 2010, Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., was hours away from the end of his political career. He didn’t know it for sure yet — he was clinging to a slim hope he might survive— but he could feel that the political tides, turning in North Dakota for decades, might finally drag him under.

Legislative Report

Meetings are still going forward at a rate of several per week. The only interim legislative committee still going for me is the Budget Section. This has been a monthly meeting instead of the usual quarterly meeting due to all the Covid-19 federal funding coming to the state.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1749 “This is no country for old men.” (the beginning of the poem “Sailing to Byzantium,” by William Butler Yeats, 1865- 1939) HALCYON DAYS The top five songs on the fourth Silver Dollar Survey on WLS radio, Chicago, Nov. 5, 1960: 1. Ruby Duby Doo, Tobin Mathews; 2.

Partisans of Possibility

“As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has – or ever will have – something inside that is unique to all time.

Will My Social Security Benefits Ever Stop?

Dear Rusty: Has someone who paid into Social Security for most of their life ever lost their benefits later in life? For example, if they start collecting benefits at age 62 and live to be 85 or longer, could they suddenly lose their benefits?

An Old Cassette Tape

It is a library of memories; a testament to a life lived. You sort your way through hundreds of old cassette tapes. You pick one out and put it in the tape player. You hear a prelude of instrumental music. The music is on an electronic keyboard. Next, a vocalist is accompanied by the keyboard.