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09/06/2008
A Senate bill that got mauled in the run-up to the summer recess but that has momentum for passage in the fall is the Free Flow of Information Act, a law that would protect the relationship between journalists and their sources. The District of Columbia and 49 states already do so.
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09/06/2008
I was so taken in by the article in the Aug. 31 Forum concerning this legalized loan sharking, i.e. payday loans, disguised as a solution to the financial woes that many in this economy today are finding themselves in.
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09/06/2008
Reporter Patrick Springer posits in the Aug. 24 Forum that an Evangelical Christian “might seem an improbable supporter of Barack Obama in the presidential race.” Not only improbable but untenable.
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09/06/2008
In response to Calvin Schaible’s column on Aug. 28, I disagree that we can sustain our energy future by exploring for more oil at home. I do agree that Congress is beating around the bush (no pun intended) on the energy policy to support a strong future for the United States.
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09/06/2008
United Blood Services would like to thank the Froggy 99.9 FM Gang, especially Lilly Pad at Go Radio, for their work on Froggy Day Aug. 27. They have helped with this event for 16 years, and the lives they help save in just this one day deserves recognition.
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09/06/2008
Fires and grain elevators have a tendency to go hand-in-hand; in the past three months there have been five elevator fires in our region: June 19, Rushmore, Minn.; July 10, Kenyon, Minn.; Aug. 21, Nekoma, N.D.; Aug. 23, Groton, S.D.; and, of course, Aug. 27, Ulen, Minn., and yet the headline of the Aug. 28 article about the Ulen fire was “Elevator has history of blazes.”
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09/06/2008
One of the things I admire most about North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven is that he does what he says he will do.
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09/06/2008
Now that North Dakota State University has gone D-I, you would think they would be better prepared to make games available via the television. With the first game a sellout and the unrest among students for not being able to get in, a televised game made sense, yet not one of the three stations in the F-M area took the opportunity.
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