RICK BERG

The Crossroads will offer lots ranging in size from 0.7 acres to more than 10 acres. The site is one of the last stretches along either of the Fargo-Moorhead area's interstates that has yet to be developed.

NDSU just completed the In Our Hands Campaign of $400 million goal, which is now approaching $430 million pledged, committed, and in the bank. Supporters do not donate to the university if they have a problem with the leadership. Supporters of NDSU obviously enjoyed the leadership of President Bresciani and were willing to commit over $430 million dollars.

The new chairman steps into the role at a time of great prosperity for the party. Republicans hold all of North Dakota's statewide and congressional offices, in addition to 85% of the seats in the state Legislature.

The immediate aftermath of these losses will likely be more conspiracy-mongering about rule-breaking and cheating from the Trumpists/Bastiats, because that's just what those people do. Longer-term, the NDGOP (and the state's other political parties) will have to reorganize thanks to redistricting. Will the Trumpists/Bastiats try to do it all over again?

Will the Trump activists, aligned with the Legislature's Bastiat Caucus, do it all over again? They may not be inclined to.

Current NDGOP chairman Rick Berg is not running for another term, and just one person is openly running to be his replacement.

That's a +4 for the Normies when it comes to votes on the NDGOP's state committee and a -4 for the Bastiats.

They need to act, and they can't let the potential for political blowback be an excuse. Being a leader isn't an exercise in doing whatever might be popular with voters in the moment. Sometimes it means saying and doing unpopular things because they're the right things.

It is hard to find the words to express the pain the LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit community, our families, and our friends are experiencing from the hurtful, hateful policies recently passed by the North Dakota Republican Party.