Holten: No more worries for me
I’ve decided to give up something for Lent, even though it’s not the season. That something is “worry.” I’m not going to worry anymore. Worry doesn’t do any good, so why worry about it?
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Growing up in Western North Dakota, I was extremely blessed to have the vast beauty of endless farm fields and the breathtaking Badlands surrounding my tiny hometown of Killdeer.
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Environmentalists say they’re too loose. The energy industry and its supporters say they’re too tight.
RELATED CONTENTLetter to the Editor: Cramer correct to defend morality in speech
I think Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., hit the nail on the head when he said “We’ve normalized perversion and perverted God’s natural law to the point where the only thing not tolerated anymore is a stand for the truth.”
RELATED CONTENTLetter to the Editor: Grad class ganders while Cramer panders
I feel for the graduating class at the University of Mary. It’s a fine school, and the grads were entitled to a fine speech — unlike the pandering horseflop they actually got.
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Modern marketing is so effective that it fools people into buying into a lot of nonsense.
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This week, we scored a major victory for the people who live and work throughout the Missouri River basin. The U.S. Senate passed the States’ Water Rights Act, legislation I introduced and attached to the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) to bar the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from charging a storage fee for water drawn from the Missouri River reservoirs.
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The legislative leadership responsible for the big tax cuts is calling them “the largest tax-relief package this state has ever seen.”
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Dickinson is a community changing so rapidly it’s almost to the point where it’s difficult to know exactly what is going where. Seemingly every day, a new building or business pops up.
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The 2013 legislative session is now over, with the traditional closing words “Sine Die.” With this Legislature, that could easily be interpreted as “good riddance.”
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My house has never looked better. In fact, I’ve never seen it like this. Every single room is perfectly tidy. There is no clutter anywhere. Every paint scratch has been touched up, every floor is clean. Every dish is put away, and each hairdryer and similar appliance (with three girls, I have a lot of them) has its cord carefully wound and is “just so” on the shelf.
RELATED CONTENTByrd: The speck in Cramer's eye
Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer earlier this month delivered a commencement speech in which he sought to tie school shootings to legalized abortion. “Forty years ago, the United States Supreme Court sanctioned abortion on demand,” he said in his speech at the University of Mary on May 4. “And we wonder why our culture sees school shootings so often.”
RELATED CONTENTLetter to the Editor: The passing of an agricultural leader
Southwestern North Dakota and the state as a whole lost a giant in agricultural advancement with the passing of Lavern (Ole) Linnel for Killdeer.
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It’s been likened to an alien spaceship landing; a gigantic greenhouse; a dream job for the people who make Windex.
RELATED CONTENTOther views: Too few new North Dakota state jobs?
North Dakota will add 144 full-time equivalent positions to state government’s workforce in the next few months. The 2013 Legislature approved the job growth. Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s budget proposal had called for more state employees in specific classifications to deal with rapidly rising demand for state services.
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