LLOYD OMDAHL
Omdahl: Postal model obsolete 
With the U.S. Postal Service on the edge of bankruptcy, Postmaster General Patrick Donahue – backed by the General Accountability Office – is proposing drastic across-the-board cuts to stabilize the agency.
By Lloyd Omdahl , December 18, 2011
Omdahl: You are being heard!
While each group consists of divergent motives and opinions, the tea party and Occupy Wall Street have one common thread – the demand to be heard. History tells us that this is not a new complaint.
By Lloyd Omdahl , November 20, 2011
Omdahl: Census will cost the west
We just about held a statewide “Populationfest” when the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the state had an increase of 31,000 residents – a 4.7 percent – in 2010 over the 2000 count.
By Lloyd Omdahl , October 09, 2011
Omdahl: ND ‘dirt farmer’ left mark
‘I’m just a dirt farmer from Crosby” was the way Rolland Redlin modestly described himself when he was chosen to serve as the floor leader for a bunch of upstart political insurgents at a Jamestown morning caucus in 1950.
By Lloyd Omdahl , October 02, 2011
Omdahl: Summer of 2011 gets failing grade
Labor Day seems to mark a division between summer and fall even though the calendar doesn’t figure it that way. Anyway, it’s a good time to look back and evaluate what should be the best season of the year.
By Lloyd Omdahl , September 04, 2011
Omdahl: Measure a recipe for chaos
Looking at the possible passage of a North Dakota constitutional amendment abolishing the property tax, legislators have already started considering methods for getting around the consequences of such precipitous action.
By Lloyd Omdahl , August 29, 2011
Omdahl: Studies create problems
Two recent studies by the Council on State Taxation have raised serious doubts about North Dakota’s business climate and warrant the concern of the state Legislature and economic development leaders.
By Lloyd Omdahl , August 15, 2011
Omdahl: It will be country vs. city in redistricting
The first meeting of the legislative redistricting committee provided a good indication of the rural-urban split that will enter into negotiations over the new district boundaries for electing legislators over the next 10 years.
By Lloyd Omdahl , August 08, 2011
Omdahl: ‘Turning Points’ confirms Sinner never left priesthood
the aid of his former press secretary, Bob Jansen, Gov. George Sinner has recorded his life’s story in an autobiography titled “Turning Points,” now on sale at local book stores.
By Lloyd Omdahl , August 01, 2011
Omdahl: Republic, if we can keep it
Last year, the League of Women Voters launched a campaign to initiate a constitutional amendment to provide for a new method of redistricting the seats of the state Legislature.
By Lloyd Omdahl , July 30, 2011
Omdahl: Redistricting stench is rising
Legislators are so sensitive to redistricting that we have already heard complaints about political maneuvering to control the process.
By Lloyd Omdahl , July 09, 2011
Omdahl: Might be no future in future
Sometime around 1970, professor Ed Banfield wrote a book, “The Unheavenly City,” in which he described the “present-oriented” nature of lower-class people whose lifestyle was devoid of thoughts of the future.
By Lloyd Omdahl , July 04, 2011
Omdahl: The onus is on leader and staff
If the North Dakota Board of Higher Education is as dysfunctional as some of its actions suggest, the chancellor and the professional staff must shoulder some of the responsibility. Dysfunction suggests that the chancellor has not used his staff strategically to provide the board with the kind of advice and assistance that is required by a lay board that meets once a month.
By Lloyd Omdahl , June 28, 2011
Omdahl: Camping resets end date
Even though Jesus said he didn’t know much about the end of the world, some of his alleged followers keep making predictions with certainty and conviction. Apparently, they don’t want to deal with the day-to-day challenge of living Christianity so they sit around and speculate about the unknowable.
By Lloyd Omdahl , May 31, 2011
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