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    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/columns13 hours 50 min ago
    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
    January 10, 2019
    A map compiled by Minnesota journalist David Montgomery of City Data, showing what a combined North and South Dakota would look like. The new state would be called Megakota, according to a joke online petition calling for the merger. Megakota would have a population of 1.62 million and would be the fourth-largest state by land area.
    McFeely: 'Megakota' would be huge, with powerful economy
    The idea of the Dakotas being something different than a North and a South is not entirely new. There was the controversial idea in the 1980s...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 7:53pm
    Jessie Veeder, Coming Home columnist.
    Veeder: January is a little too good at loneliness
    I sat on the floor in the basement and cried. I cried while my 3-year-old’s voice bubbled and babbled a narrative for her dolls as they navigated...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 3:21pm
    Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Strasburg, N.D. Katie Pinke / Forum News Service
    Pinke: Businesses should decide their Sunday hours, not government
    Do you shop on Sunday mornings? I don’t. In fact, my home state of North Dakota is the only state with a law that doesn’t allow you to shop...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 3:08pm
    Rob Port
    Port: Measure 1 is bad policy, and exactly why the initiated measure process needs reform
    MINOT, N.D. -- With a new session of the state Legislature getting down to business, left-wing commentators in the state have begun their biannual...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 12:27pm
    Gov. Doug Burgum delivers his State of the State Address in front of a joint session of the 66th legislature in the house chamber of the capitol. Tom Stromme / Bismarck Tribune
    Port: Burgum needs to give up on declining his salary
    I hate that our politicians, exploiting the populist mores of the electorate, are making a spectacle out of declining their salaries. It’s...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 11:05am
    January 9, 2019
    More than 35 percent of millennials consider themselves religious “nones,” meaning they are atheist, agnostic or not affiliated with any particular religion, according to the pew Research Center. Thinkstock / Special to The Forum
    Port: Bill would require Bible study elective in North Dakota schools
    Here’s a candidate for the dumbest piece of legislation in the 2019 legislative session. SB2136, sponsored by state Senator Oley Larson (R-Minot),...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 9, 2019 - 9:59am
    January 8, 2019
    Rob Port
    Port: Using the Legacy Fund to eliminate income taxes is an idea worthy of debate
    MINOT, N.D. -- I’d very much like to live without income taxes. That’s not just a personal desire. One of the biggest challenges to stability...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 8, 2019 - 11:46am
    North Dakota Republican Sen. Ray Holmberg, R-Grand Forks, addresses members of the House and Senate appropriations committees Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. John Hageman / Forum News Service
    Port: State lawmakers should be wary of their own revenue forecast
    In North Dakota, when the politicians are writing budgets, they aren’t spending money they have. They’re spending money revenue forecasts...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 8, 2019 - 11:45am
    January 7, 2019
    File photo of Hubert Humphrey in Buffalo N.D., on Sept 19 ,1964. With farmyard bell in background, Sen. Hubert Humphrey, Democratic vice presidential candidate, is greeted by 3-year-old Amy Olson of Seattle, Wash., niece of the Elmer Fraases, on Fraases' farm near Buffalo, 32 miles west of Fargo, N.D.
    Commentary: Before looking ahead to 2020, Democrats should look back to Hubert Humphrey
    Democrats now control the House for the first time since 2010. Yet they still have no discernible national political leader or a sweeping political...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 7, 2019 - 1:49pm
    Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, March 20, 2018. (Erin Schaff/Copyright 2019 The New York Times)
    Port: There’s nothing 'horrifying' about due process for college campuses
    “What Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to do to school sexual misconduct rules is horrifying,” writes left wing ideologue Jim Shaw....
    education/opinion/columnsJanuary 7, 2019 - 11:47am
    Katie Pinke is leaving the pie cookbook her mom and grandma both use often on her counter this year as a reminder to bake more pies. Katie Pinke / Forum News Service
    Pinke: Bake your pie — and eat it, too
    It’s a new year. Maybe you just joined a gym and are cutting calories — but I’m here to tell you it’s time to bring back an old tradition...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 7, 2019 - 11:02am
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