Along the Way

“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” -Mario Fernandez Sheltered by the sanctity of faith and aligned with the alchemy of compassionate understanding, there is a galvanizing force in protecting all that is sacred.

Social Security Matters

Dear Rusty: I am 59. My wife is 48 and has been a stay at home mom for 15 years. We have children aged 13, 10, and 5. I know it makes sense to delay the start of benefits, but I understand that it’s more complicated when small children are involved.

Bowesmont Lives

Gayle McConnell and Neil and Joyce Hanson flew back into Grand Forks from Mesa on April 11 and returned to their respective homes. Kriss and Ben Tucker have been Gayle’s delivery service and have visited several times from her deck until her sheltering in place is over.

Brush with the Bunch

Leo Beauchamp has been ever faithful in providing creative articles for the Brush Bunch. Well—this time I get to provide a report on our reporter. Back in the early 80’s, Leo and Frankie another Brush Bunch membermet at our house & at our kitchen table for Leo’s first painting day.

Tidbits from AMAC

A sudsy plea The coronavirus crisis has most of the nation housebound causing hardships as many of us as we begin to run out of necessities such as toilet paper.

Valley News & Views Guest Editorial COVID-19 takes its toll on local news coverage

When this crisis is over, we’ll return to the rhythm of our usual work and play, but in many cities across the country, local news organizations may be gone or badly diminished. I’ve written about the need to fund local journalism before, but this time there’s a special urgency.

Life in the Slow Lane?

I have stayed away from the national news as much as possible lately. Although this really isn’t anything new for me. I rarely watch the national news. I have however, as a part of my job, watched the daily press briefings by Governor Burgum. I have found them to be quite interesting.

Looking Down Main

Writing a weekly column can be an interesting process some weeks. This happens to be one of them. I have two different basic approaches, with about 652,000 variations, that I use most weeks. The first approach is the one where I know exactly what I want to write about and exactly what I want to say.

Guest Columnist

Many observers of the pandemic’s progress were surprised to discover that the coronavirus was killing a disproportionate number of African-Americans. It was surprising to me that they were surprised.

Is online schooling during the coronavirus outbreak failing our students?

WASHINGTON, DC, Apr 17 -- Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. more and more schools at all levels of education have been shutting down in favor of online classes due to the coronavirus crisis.