Forum editorial: November smiles on the region

Sometimes Mother Nature has a way of assuring us she’s with us.

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Montana football rivalry among the nation’s best

There’s another football game in town Saturday and the contest is not at the Fargodome.

An embarrassment to be the ‘richest’

It is an embarrassment to us Americans to hear our politicians brag to the world that we are the richest country in the world.

Vatican appears unconcerned about our constitutional rights

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a woman has a constitutional right in the child-bearing process, some religious groups have tried to erase that right without success.

School financial picture not clear

As Kelly Smith wrote in the Oct. 27 Forum (“West Fargo teachers, school district agree on pay raises”) the negotiators reached a “half-way” concession of both sides’ goals: the teachers receiving a slight annual pay increase for each of the next two contract years; however, the district’s offering of the same “locked” health insurance plan will not be changed.

Writers resort to false information

The Nov. 6 letters by Lois Stromme and Sureshi Jayawardene Anaman contain some errors. First, this is not the “worst recession in our nation’s history.” One needs only to revisit the 1970s.

Money wasted on Blues letter

I’m not unlike anyone else. When times are tough, I spend less money, try to save more and tend to do the right thing.

Forum editorial: Mailing by Blues bad timing

The mini-uproar over a letter about health care reform sent by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota to its members was to be expected.

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Editorial on UND logo dispute inaccurate and irresponsible

The reading public is well aware that not all editorials are well thought out or are of factual and responsible content.

Unsolicited mail very annoying

Blue Cross Blue Shield sent unsolicited mail to policyholders regarding all the evil things health care reform is going to do.

Get started on climate work now

I am shocked. The Army Corps of Engineers dared ask our region’s climate experts this question: “Is it likely that climate change will have a significant impact on the flood flow frequency curve during the life of the proposed flood risk reduction project for Fargo, N.D.-Moorhead, Minn.?”

US health care reform is needed

Having recently returned to Cass County in North Dakota, where I was born and reared, after living for the past 50 years in Canada, I am compelled to report my great disappointment in finding health care so cumbersome and expensive here in the U.S.

Thank you to Rieckman family

As the owner of the lost jewelry featured in Bob Lind’s column in a recent issue of The Forum, I would like to say a huge “thank you” to the Rieckman family.

Trygve Olson cartoon 11.19.09

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Forum editorial: Rourke more than a building

Municipal governments are notorious for lacking vision.

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