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I had to check it out myself after my morning trip to the post office and after driving the stretch of construction on West Fargo's Main Avenue, the concern for...

"We are tired of it and we won't take it anymore." Those are the sentiments of folks in the City of Oxbow south of Fargo who feel they are getting...

The West Fargo Police department will be working with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on safely removing and disposing unwanted prescription drugs. This will be the fourth time for this...

I recently heard about a West Fargo veteran who supposedly was evicted from his home for non-payment of taxes. On a radio talk show this week, I heard a caller...

Lawnmowers are like mechanical yawns: as soon as one begins whirring away, within minutes, more will follow. But even while neighbors up and down the block are happily grooming their...

In 2010, Minot became the first city in North Dakota to adopt the Minneapolis-based "Feed My Starving Children" food-packing program for starvation-impacted children. With the municipal auditorium for a staging...

With the road construction season upon us, it is easy to become frustrated by being pushed out of our normal course of travel. Road closures, restricted lanes, detours and rough...

Measure 2 will negatively impact the delivery of benefit services to veterans and county employees if it passes. It appears to me from reading the relevant statutes that if Measure...

Ballooning land and commodity prices will have only a nominal impact on property taxes. The outrageous land prices, as much as $5,000 an acre in the Red River Valley, would...

Measure 2 is, without question, one of the most consequential policy questions that has been presented before the state. How many times have you heard that implication as a Dooms...

Did you hear the big news? The Red River crested already. Yup, on Sunday, March 18, the mighty Red topped out just below 18 feet. Talk about anticlimactic; flooding was...

A recent question posed by an outdoor enthusiast generated this week's topic on when a driver is required to yield to a pedestrian attempting to cross a roadway. A simple...

Just about everyone is unhappy with civic affairs in America these days. Congress and many other public institutions are held in low regard. We have turned into a nation of...

What a difference a year can make. Especially when it comes to the weather, which has been one hot topic of late, literally. Warm temperatures, clear skies, moderate winds, no...

Except for a few nomads in Outer Mongolia, everybody now knows that 85-year-old Marilyn Hagerty has spent decades living on the edge as the "Eat Beat" reporter for the Grand...