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    December 16, 2018
    Rob Port
    Port: Heitkamp’s angry goodbye
    MINOT, N.D. -- This week Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said farewell with an address on the floor of the Senate. The timing was less than ideal.
    opinion/columns18 hours 53 min ago
    Veeder: Maybe mothers aren't all that different from spider that gives everything to its kids
    On a long, late night drive last week, I stumbled upon a radio program that aims to explore the topic of love and how it unfolds, beats, bends...
    opinion/columns20 hours 24 min ago
    Jon Hauser
    Hauser: Distraction can lead to inaction during Christmas season
    FARGO -- Joseph and Mary, who was with child, traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem to participate in a mandatory census. While they were in Bethlehem...
    opinion/columns21 hours 50 min ago
    December 14, 2018
    Roxane Salonen
    Salonen: Hubby celebrates ‘first’ birthday with heart
    FARGO -- “I wouldn’t mind a cake with one candle to celebrate my first birthday,” my husband requested one evening recently. Until then,...
    opinion/columnsDecember 14, 2018 - 9:35am
    Phillips: Kindness can bring us to our knees
    Have you ever bitten off more than you could chew? I’m not talking about the Christmas ham — I’m talking about a project you thought you...
    opinion/columnsDecember 14, 2018 - 7:47am
    December 13, 2018
    The Belfield American Legion Color Guard marches toward the Belfield Theatre for the town's Memorial Day Services on Monday, May 30, 2016. (Dustin Monke / The Dickinson Press)
    Port: Governor Burgum and a Republican lawmaker want to exempt military pay and pensions from state income taxes and it’s a solid idea
    North Dakota has thousands and thousands of military members, both active duty and retired, living in our state. North Dakota has a chronic labor...
    opinion/columnsDecember 13, 2018 - 10:13am
    Nicole Phillips, Kindness is Contagious columnist.
    Kindness is Contagious: Kindness can bring us to our knees
    Have you ever bitten off more than you could chew? I’m not talking about the Christmas ham — I’m talking about a project you thought you...
    opinion/columnsDecember 13, 2018 - 10:02am
    December 12, 2018
    The campus of the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton. Special to The Forum.
    Port: North Dakota has seen a significant drop in student loan debt loads
    Are North Dakota students getting smarter about how they finance higher education? It sure seems that way. The cost of attending institutions...
    opinion/columnsDecember 12, 2018 - 9:42am
    Port: Legislative pettiness leads to marginalization of Burgum’s conservative budget
    MINOT, N.D. -- Traditionally in North Dakota the governor's executive budget, delivered to lawmakers as an address in December, is introduced...
    opinion/columnsDecember 12, 2018 - 7:01am
    December 11, 2018
    Congressman Kevin Cramer, U.S. Sen. John Hoeven and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum hosted EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt at a closed roundtable discussion in Fargo Wednesday, Aug. 9. Dave Olson/Forum News Service
    Rob Port: Governor Burgum, Senator-elect Cramer tell NDGOP in letter not to give up open primary
    Last week I wrote about proposed legislation, being considered for endorsement by the North Dakota Republican Party, which if passed would end...
    opinion/columnsDecember 11, 2018 - 7:53pm
    December 10, 2018
    Hopes and fears and all the years meet within your eyes
    I wonder at times about the relationship of hope and fear. They dance together, brilliant partners each—one dressed in a shimmering white and one clad in a stately dark, and each with a firm grip on the other. As they pirouette and turn and find step in time, they become a...
    opinion/columnsDecember 10, 2018 - 1:49pm
    Sen. Heidi Heitkamp concedes the North Dakota senate race, at an election night event in Fargo, N.D., Nov. 6, 2018. (Hilary Swift/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Rob Port: Maybe Heidi Heitkamp could give some of her left over money to her campaign’s victims
    Senator Heidi Heitkamp has a lot of money left over from her unsuccessful 2018 campaign.
    opinion/columnsDecember 10, 2018 - 11:00am
    December 9, 2018
    Sometimes, adults can learn a lesson about embracing life from children like 3-year-old Edie. Jessie Veeder / Forum News Service
    Veeder: The light of childhood reminds us to embrace life
    It’s no secret there are things in this life that are ruined by adulthood.
    opinion/columnsDecember 9, 2018 - 9:01am
    Rob Port
    Port: Burgum’s proposed pension bailout must be tied to real reforms
    MINOT, N.D. -- It’s not the sexiest political topic, so you might be forgiven if you’re unaware of North Dakota’s chronic problems with...
    opinion/columnsDecember 9, 2018 - 8:49am
    Swift: Saving 'Niece-mas' by getting with the program
    Well, at least I got to save Christmas. Let me explain. Many years ago, one of the assorted sons-in-law in our family nobly carried a bowl of...
    opinion/columnsDecember 9, 2018 - 7:10am
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