In December, State Treasurer Kelly Schmidt (R) surprised many when she announced that she wouldn’t be seeking a fifth term. When she was first elected in 2004, Democrats had occupied the Treasurer’s office for about 20 years. Schmidt has steadied the [read more…]
In mid-March, Governor Doug Burgum issued an Executive Order closing all K-12 schools for a week. He then extended that to “until further notice” and ordered that districts “develop plans for age-appropriate distance learning”. This was, of course, an early [read more…]
Back in February, we published an article about information given to The Minuteman that Governor Doug Burgum was actively seeking challengers to conservative candidates in key primary season races. At the time, the races made known to us were State [read more…]
The following letter was submitted to The Minuteman by Tricia Knutson. Governor Doug Burgum, I am a resident of a North Dakota county that does not have any coronavirus cases. I carefully follow the news of our state, country and [read more…]
The following article was submitted to The Minuteman by John H. Wilson. What is more important – your rights under the US Constitution, or following the arbitrary rules of your local and state governments? If you said the obvious answer, and [read more…]
When Rep. Jim Grueneich moved from District 12 to District 28 earlier this year, he decided that he still wanted to be in the North Dakota Legislature. In front of him though was the reality that neither of District 28’s [read more…]
Yesterday, we published an article expressing our view that Governor Burgum is doing more harm than good with his Executive Orders placing restrictions on some businesses, while literally closing others. These orders, of course, are reactionary measures taken in response [read more…]
North Dakota needs to be open for business. A group of conservative lawmakers signed onto a letter this week expressing as much. A non-scientific poll on Point of View’s Facebook page currently shows nearly 75% of respondents who feel the [read more…]
Much of America has lost its collective minds— because of a virus. Now, before some of you come unhinged, I should clarify that in saying that I’m not pretending that COVID-19 isn’t problematic. It is. But we’ve allowed things to [read more…]
By: Charlene NelsonCasselton, ND This horrible virus that has upended society, wreaked havoc and re-written our social code has now taken a good man from us. On April 8th, Ralph Muecke of Gladstone passed from this life and we are [read more…]
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