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State Rep. Rick Becker, R-Bismarck, set up a table and asked citizens to challenge his argument against North Dakota mask mandate (Photo by Jeremy Turley via Twitter)

Opinion Jan 13th 2021 - 2pm

Port: Bill would deny public officials their pay if businesses restrictions are in place

Rioters overturned dumpsters and threw rocks at police on First Avenue North on May 30 in downtown Fargo. Police confirmed Nicholai Westrum, who was charged in connection to the riot, was allegedly the man seen in this photo jumping up and down on a dumpster.
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Opinion Jan 13th 2021 - 11am

Port: Let's talk about 'whataboutism'

Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist.

Columns Jan 13th 2021 - 8am

Mike Jacobs: Ideas spread like COVID at the North Dakota Capitol

Columns Jan 13th 2021 - 7am

Bender: We've met the enemy, and they're Republicans

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President Donald Trump points to supporters as he leaves Scheels Arena in Fargo on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. David Samson / The Forum

Columns Jan 13th 2021 - 6am

Port: Was Donald Trump worth it, Republicans?

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and state Sen. Rich Wardner. Josiah C. Cuellar / Forum News Service

Opinion Jan 12th 2021 - 2pm

Port: Sore loser Bastiats have forgotten about the First Amendment

Opinion Jan 12th 2021 - 11am

I cannot tell a lie — your heritage is now heresy

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters at the Save America Rally on the Ellipse on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, near the White House in Washington, D.C. Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS

Opinion Jan 12th 2021 - 10am

Port: It doesn't matter if impeachment is divisive, it's necessary

Columns Jan 11th 2021 - 6pm

Conrad: These are facts and facts are stubborn things

Heidi Heitkamp, a former U.S. senator for North Dakota, speaks Oct. 29 at Koester Farms in Glyndon, Minn. Forum file photo

Letters Jan 11th 2021 - 3pm

Heitkamp: Hoeven and Cramer can do the right thing, or be remembered as cowards

A monitor displays President Donald Trump as he delivers remarks at a campaign-style rally at Scheels Arena in Fargo, N.D., June 27, 2018. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times) A monitor displays President Donald Trump as he delivers remarks at a campaign-style rally at Scheels Arena in Fargo, N.D.
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Opinion Jan 11th 2021 - 2pm

Port: If problematic speech is banned online, at least be consistent

Republican Rep. Tom Kading speaks at the “Pre 4/20 Pot Party” forum hosted by Students for Sensible Drug Policy on Wednesday, April 18 2018, in Festival Concert Hall at North Dakota State University, Fargo. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor

Opinion Jan 11th 2021 - 9am

Port: As a national debate rages, North Dakota bill would make Internet companies legally liable for censorship

Editorials Jan 9th 2021 - 12pm

OTHER VIEWS: The Republican Party must stop enabling Trump and move on

Columns Jan 9th 2021 - 11am

Shaw: Legislators' loyalty should be to the Constitution, not Trump

North Dakota Land Commissioner Jodi Smith listens during a Land Board meeting in March 2019. Forum News Service file photo

Columns Jan 9th 2021 - 6am

Port: Legislature seeks to fix unjust treatment of North Dakota's oil industry

Former state lawmaker and Grafton businessman Tom Campbell booked tickets to President Donald Trump's Save America Rally in D.C. ,protesting election results on a whim. He left to catch a flight about three hours before the protest escalated into rioting. Photo by Tom Campbell

Opinion Jan 8th 2021 - 4pm

Plain Talk: Sen. Kevin Cramer says Donald Trump is still the best president of his life, but no longer an effective leader

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum stands to the side during a news conference on Oct. 23 in Bismarck. Kyle Martin / The Forum

Opinion Jan 7th 2021 - 2pm

Port: Bills to restrict governor's emergency powers good, but also a bit hypocritical

A area producer harvests a field of corn Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, just north of Jamestown. John M. Steiner / The Sun

Columns Jan 7th 2021 - 11am

McFeely: Trump turned farmers into welfare-dependent socialists

President Donald Trump is cheered on by supporters at Scheels Arena in Fargo on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. David Samson / The Forum
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Opinion Jan 7th 2021 - 9am

Port: It's no longer possible to be a Trump supporter and a patriot

Motorcycles and people crowd Main Street during the 80th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, on August 7, 2020.
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Opinion Jan 6th 2021 - 2pm

Port: The right takes up the left's violent protest tactics

North Dakota Capitol in Bismarck. Forum News Service file photo

Opinion Jan 6th 2021 - 1pm

Port: Ethics Commission pushes bill which would allow anonymous complaints, even from out of state

A Donald Trump political message is engraved into the grass at a farm in southeast Minnesota. The state hasn't backed a GOP presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1972. Noah Fish / Forum News Service

Opinion Jan 6th 2021 - 9am

Port: Thank Trump for Republicans blowing Georgia runoffs

Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks Herald columnist.

Columns Jan 6th 2021 - 8am

Mike Jacobs: Remembering Trump 'for what we’ve done'

Columns Jan 6th 2021 - 7am

Bender: To rebuild a democracy

Rep. Kelly Armstrong speaks to community members in Dickinson State University's Beck Auditorium in Nov. 2019. (Kayla Henson / The Dickinson Press)

Columns Jan 6th 2021 - 6am

Port: Politicians owe us reason, not obedience

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