View Point - Editorial

In most circles, the press is not a generally popular institution.
From Fargo to Flagstaff, Bismarck to Baltimore, the press is said to be suspect by newsmakers, who by profession and nature are generally political.
Small wonder then, that we — those of us in Small Town America who still make it a practice to follow the movements of our city, school and county office holders while on the job — are similarly treated, and that is with disdain.
At first blush, it’s generally, “What are you doing here?” Or, “Is it really necessary, you being here?”
“You here again?” (more…)

We suspect a conspiracy.
While we have no fool-proof evidence to the claim of conspiracy, which renders our allegation groundless, we nevertheless register our complaint. Here and now.
Lot of good it will do.
The two daily papers in our midst, those being in Fargo and Grand Forks, shunned us recently for no good reason.
Granted it wasn’t a veterans potato feed in Barnesville, Crazy Days in Fergus Falls, a model airplane show in Kindred, a summer festival in Dalton, or the county fair in Ada, or any of a number of events north of Highway 200, all or some of which received ink in the two regional dailies, but to us, our Hillsboro Days celebration, was a weekend worthy of mention. We were inducting our fifth Hall of Fame class, staging a Saturday morning parade, hosting the state’s antique tractor pull and drafting horses to pull heatedly on a dirt track that would make any dusty road proud. (more…)