Opinion
"If the door opens for NDSU to join the FBS, the Thundering Herd should run through it," columnist Jim Shaw writes.
At the suggestion of a reader, columnist Joan Brickner talks about logic and critical thinking.
If North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum decides to run for president, "he'll be a long, long shot but he's used to that," columnist Scott Hennen writes.
After a water main flooded a Fargo business, InForum cartoonist Trygve Olson finds differing points of view on whether or not North Dakota is a friendly place to do business.
In today's cartoon, Trygve Olson likens Gov. Burgum and soybean stock to Jack and the beanstalk.
"Come Holy Spirit, come. ... I wonder if that’s what Peter prayed for on the day that Pentecost occurred?"
Bruce Anderson asks, "Do they represent the people of their districts or do they blindly serve the Republican Caucus?"
With the homeowner's permission, contractor Trent Buck likes to pray over a project and will even include messages of faith on the floorboards throughout the home.
A spokesman for Burgum confirmed that the governor has plans for a major announcement in Fargo that day.
"I believe, as Dawn Morgan and Jim Kapitan indicated, the greater disservice would be the loss of these buildings and an additional opportunity to repay an earlier favor," Fargo resident Ginny Poindexter writes.
Harvey Koenig writes, "Not too long ago I didn’t agree with much of what Rob Port had to say. I find myself agreeing, not always, but more and more."
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Karen Gemar of Moorhead writes, "The leaders genuinely think they are helping people, but they are leading them down a path that leads over a cliff!
Ben Smith, a veteran of publications such as BuzzFeed, The New York Times, and Politico, and the founder of Semafor, joins this episode of Plain Talk to discuss his new book, "Traffic."
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