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    Port: What a miserable week for American journalism
    American journalists are fond of blaming the politicians, and these days President Donald “fake news” Trump in particular, for declining...
    opinion/columns13 hours 47 min ago
    President Donald Trump stops to talk to reporters and members of the media as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford.
    Commentary: Trump is dealmaker who can't seem to make deal
    WASHINGTON - Donald Trump was elected president partly by assuring the American people that "I alone can fix it."But precisely two years into...
    news/government-and-politics14 hours 13 min ago
    January 20, 2019
    Commentary: Trump says Democrats used to be for new border barriers. He's right.
    On Saturday, President Donald Trump again made the case for his wall by pointing out Democrats once supported new fencing and barriers along...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 20, 2019 - 4:19pm
    Swift: Have you 'hygged' your home today? Practicing the Danish art of relaxation
    Those crazy Danes. They seem to have it all figured out. One of the greatest foods in the world — the Danish — is named after them. They give moms and dads a combined total of 52 WEEKS of maternity leave. They invented Legos, and they eat an average of 42 sausages a year. No wonder...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 20, 2019 - 7:00am
    January 19, 2019
    Commentary: Why progressives should stop avoiding men's issues
    Millions of American men are disconnected from work, children and family; are in poor physical and mental health; suffer from addiction and isolation;...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 19, 2019 - 1:24pm
    January 18, 2019
    Jessie Veeder keeps this card featuring Theodore Waddell's "Gallatin Angus" in a frame beside her bed. Jessie Veeder / The Forum
    Veeder: The way my grandpa sees the world
    There’s a print of a painting hanging in a frame beside my bed that reminds me of my Grandpa Bill. It’s a framed card actually, a watercolor...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 18, 2019 - 3:11pm
    Tony Crotty carries back a couple of Canada geese during an early season hunt in North Dakota. (Bret Amundson/Forum News Service)
    Port: Legislation introduced to end the presumption of access to unposted private land
    Earlier this month I wrote about a debate that was expected for this legislative session over the presumption of access to unposted private land....
    opinion/columnsJanuary 18, 2019 - 9:29am
    January 17, 2019
    Port: Do North Dakota gay rights activists really want to achieve their objectives?
    State Rep. Mary Johnson, a Republican from Fargo, has introduced legislation to address alleged discrimination based on sexual orientation in...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 17, 2019 - 11:58am
    Nicole Phillips, Kindness is Contagious columnist.
    Kindness is Contagious: Kindness helps us embrace humanity
    Have you tired of your New Year’s resolution yet? Maybe you hoped to avoid the feeling of failure by not declaring one. That’s sort of the...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 17, 2019 - 11:47am
    Rob Port
    Port: Fargo Democrat’s gun seizure bill smacks of pre-crime
    MINOT, N.D. - In 1956 Philip K. Dick invented the term precrime. In his story "Minority Report," it is the name of a government agency which...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 17, 2019 - 10:30am
    January 15, 2019
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    Port: Legislation would let the government seize guns from people deemed as possibly dangerous
    HB1537, introduced by Rep. Karla Rose Hanson (D-Fargo), is a complicated piece of policy. The crux of it, however, is creating a process whereby...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 15, 2019 - 12:10pm
    Rob Port
    Port: North Dakota is just months away from having no full-time federal judges
    MINOT, N.D. -- This is an appropriate time, here in the middle of the longest government shutdown in American history, to talk about government...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 15, 2019 - 11:44am
    January 14, 2019
    A sign alerting visitors that the facility is closed is posted outside the Library of Congress in Washington on Monday morning, Jan. 22, 2018. (Pete Marovich/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Port: If the longest ever government shutdown teaches us one thing it’s that the federal government is too large
    The current shutdown of the federal government is now the longest in the history of America. I’ll leave it to others to debate the circumstances...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 14, 2019 - 12:42pm
    January 13, 2019
    Forum New Service columnist Mike McFeely
    McFeely: Fact is, ND legislators are smarter than you
    FARGO — There is much fire and brimstone from the left side of the political aisle in North Dakota, at least as much as there can be from a...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 13, 2019 - 5:27pm
    Commentary: This is why the federal government will have a hard time regulating prescription opioids
    This past week, President Donald Trump argued on national television that to end the opioid epidemic, Congress needed to fund the building of...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 13, 2019 - 1:39pm
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