ROSS NELSON
Nelson: Bias, scare stories tilt the debate 
There are two problems with North Dakota Measure 2, the proposed constitutional amendment to abolish property taxes: It’s a big change for the better, but that can still understandably unnerve people.
June 02, 2012
Nelson: ND must not abandon principles
If you think of the University of North Dakota as a sports center with academic programs attached to it like warts to a nose, then you surely favor groveling at the NCAA’s feet.
By Ross Nelson, Casselton, N.D. , May 26, 2012
Nelson: Measure 2 is about a principle
The disclaimer first: I’m married to one of Measure 2’s (the constitutional initiative to do away with property tax) principal spokeswomen.
By Ross Nelson , May 05, 2012
Nelson: Liberals use killing to twist law
Never letting a good crisis go to waste continues to be the motto of liberals everywhere after the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida last February.
By Ross Nelson , April 14, 2012
Nelson: We wallow in hillbilly ignorance
A Gallup poll shows only 8 percent of Americans view Iran favorably, a lower rate than that of nations we’ve warred with, such as North Korea.
By Ross Nelson , March 24, 2012
Nelson: ‘No longer ruler of our spirit’
Before country, world and God in a GOP presidential debate last fall, Newt Gingrich advocated “covert operations to block ... the Iranian (nuclear) operations, including taking out their scientists.”
By Ross Nelson , March 03, 2012
Nelson: Ethanol empire responds
Kevin Skunes of Arthur, N.D., chairman of the North Dakota Corn Utilization Council, reminds me in his latest defense of ethanol (Forum, Dec. 21): The maker of my 2012 snowblower (it’s true, I actually bought something new) explicitly warns against using any gasohol greater than E10.
By Ross Nelson , January 21, 2012
Nelson: Ethanol? I’ll supply the shovels
It’s hard to say if ethanol’s backers deliberately or just incidentally misunderstand arguments about their fuel.
November 26, 2011
Nelson: Enough ethanol mythology
Russ Newman, vice president of Tharaldson Ethanol near Casselton, N.D., recently boomed ethanol again in The Forum’s pages.
November 05, 2011
Nelson: Big money drives UND logo affair
What a bizarre pass the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname fight has come to: A wide majority of North Dakota’s Sioux want UND to keep their name while stuffed shirts across the state fight to drop it.
October 22, 2011
Nelson: Kowtowing to tyranny and liking it
I last wrote that the 9/11 attacks not only killed thousands of Americans and led to perhaps 70 times that many Iraqi deaths but also finished off the America we old-timers used to know.
October 08, 2011
Nelson: Sorrow over what we’ve lost
My wife woke me up a couple of hours early on Sept. 11, 2001.
September 11, 2011
Nelson: UND logo fight ends in disgrace
So the last hurrah has been heard for the University of North Dakota’s Sioux logo and nickname.
August 28, 2011
Nelson: Welcome to goo-goo America
You would be hard-pressed to find a more juvenile, uninformed attitude toward the recent debt ceiling brouhaha than what many Americans just expressed.
By Ross Nelson , August 14, 2011
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