ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENT|FARGO -- North Dakotans, you're about to give away millions of dollars to out-of-state oil companies. Again. If you care. History shows you don't.The money is yours, by law and affirmed by the state supreme court. It was to be spent on public schools, the same ones funded by the taxes you like to gripe about so much. If you care.The headlines you've been reading in recent weeks about natural gas royalties, supreme court rulings and the North Dakota Board of University and School Lands probably looked like a pile of indecipherable governmental and legal...…ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENT|FARGO -- North Dakotans, you're about to give away millions of dollars to out-of-state oil companies. Again. If you care. History shows you don't.The money is yours, by law and affirmed by the state supreme court. It was to be spent on public schools, the same ones funded by the taxes you like to gripe about so much. If you care.The headlines you've been reading in recent weeks about natural gas royalties, supreme court rulings and the North Dakota Board of University and School Lands probably looked like a pile of indecipherable governmental and legal...WW…

ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENT|FARGO — Republicans are afraid.Afraid of Black people. Afraid of brown people. Afraid of red people. Afraid of yellow people. Afraid of women. Afraid of young people.Afraid of young people voting. Afraid of people of color voting. Afraid of voting rights. Afraid of democracy.Afraid of science. Afraid of medicine. Afraid of knowledge. Afraid of public education. Afraid of universities. Afraid of professors. Afraid of teachers.Afraid of experts. Afraid of doctors. Afraid of Anthony Fauci. Afraid of masks. Afraid of vaccines. Afraid of vaccine passports. Afraid of...…ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENT|FARGO — Republicans are afraid.Afraid of Black people. Afraid of brown people. Afraid of red people. Afraid of yellow people. Afraid of women. Afraid of young people.Afraid of young people voting. Afraid of people of color voting. Afraid of voting rights. Afraid of democracy.Afraid of science. Afraid of medicine. Afraid of knowledge. Afraid of public education. Afraid of universities. Afraid of professors. Afraid of teachers.Afraid of experts. Afraid of doctors. Afraid of Anthony Fauci. Afraid of masks. Afraid of vaccines. Afraid of vaccine passports. Afraid of...WW…

ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTFARGO — Bismarck city commissioner Mark Splonskowski joins the growing list of North Dakota officials to say silly (and potentially dangerous) things in their opposition to a mask mandate to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.At a six-hour meeting Tuesday, Oct. 27, Splonskowski punctuated his opposition to a mask mandate (individual choice, freedom, liberty, slippery slope, etc.) by continually saying the science behind wearing a mask is unsettled (no, it isn't) before deciding to play doctor (he's a Burleigh County tax appraiser for his day job).Late in the...…ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTFARGO — Bismarck city commissioner Mark Splonskowski joins the growing list of North Dakota officials to say silly (and potentially dangerous) things in their opposition to a mask mandate to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.At a six-hour meeting Tuesday, Oct. 27, Splonskowski punctuated his opposition to a mask mandate (individual choice, freedom, liberty, slippery slope, etc.) by continually saying the science behind wearing a mask is unsettled (no, it isn't) before deciding to play doctor (he's a Burleigh County tax appraiser for his day job).Late in the...WW…