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Hat Tips
By Dean Meyer
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Downhill fun
Golva School holds an AR (Accelerated Reader) Sledding Party
on Feb. 4. Students enjoyed an afternoon with nice weather on
"Sarsland's Mountain." Top right: Isabelle Northrop and McKenzi
Plummer. At left: Jacob Steiner. Above: Grant Maychrzak display-
ing his snowboarding skills. (Courtesy Photos)
Ill
• • •
To the editor:
Former Governor Ed Schafer's
so-called "grassroots" tour around
North Dakota to lower the oil
extraction tax raises more questions
than it answers and creates more
problems than solutions,
For those of you who haven't
been following, let us summarize
the former Governor's actions.
Governor Schafer held press con-
ferences in Fargo; Bismarck and
Minot to advertise his new bus
tour a Coach bus with his face
painted on the side. might we point
out. Of course, he didn•t ride on the
bus to announce the bus tour. he
flew in a jet. So much for messag-
ing.
At his announcement, he advo-
cated lowering the state tax on oil
production and oil extraction. He
stated that we have a combined tax
of 11.5% (with incentives, our aver-
age effective tax is 10.25%). that we
had the highest tax in the lower 48
( Louisiana and Montana are higher)
and that if we didn't lower the tax.
oil compames would leave (try as
one might, the Bakken can't be
moved). He fails to point out. of
course, that our highest producing
state. Alaska. also has the highest
tax.
Former Governor Schafer's
call for tax reductions is irrespon-
sible. What is his plan? He didn't
have one. The day he held his
press tour was the deadline to
introduce bills for the 2011 leg-
islative session. So not only is
there no specific legislation, if he
were advocating for something
specific, it would have to wait
until 2013 or be approved by the
delayed bills committee.
Another problem is that a high
profile former elected official is
traveling around the state in a so-
called "grassroots" campaign oL
which he admittedly does not know
the funding source. He admits that
he did not ask about the donors, and
does not know how much he will be
paid (although he does know that he
will be paid. of course).
Call us crazy, but we can't see
everyday North Dakotans ponying
up money to paint Governor
Schafer's face on the side of a bus.
The focus of this session needs
to be on the impact of oil expansion
on our state. Our party called for a
special session last summer to
speed up funding, which was turned
down by then Governor Hoeven.
But now that we're in session.
we're focused on taking Care of the
impact. POny drastic decrease in the
tax can't be considered until we
have adequately addressed the
roads, water needs, housing needs,
and community development issues
iri the West.
Former Governor Schafer may
be comfortable with placing the
needs of oil companies (and him-
self) over the needs of our Western
communities, property tax relief.
land building our newly created
legacy fund for future generations.
but we are not.
- Senate Minority Leader Ryan
Taylor
Towner
House Minority Leader Jerry
Kelsh
Fullerton
Just not digging th
halftime entertainment
Hello,
There is a movie out called "'I'm
Just Not That Into You". I haven't
seen it. Most likely won't. Still plan
on going to "True Grit". but that's
about as far as my movie desires go.
Or maybe I'll just wait until it is on
TV.
But, as I reflect on the Super
Bowl, I guess you could say that I
just wasn't that into it. Unlike hun-
dred of millions of people across the
globe, I didn't really care who won.
Sorry. But, it was a pretty good
game, and someone won. The ads
• were alright, but mostly I was wait-
ing for the halt-time show. The
Black-Eyed Peas. Really, some
singers called the Black-Eyed Peas.
Now. I guess I must be more of a
recluse than a lot of people. I would-
n't have known the Black-Eyed Peas
from black-eyed Susans or split pea
soup. But all week people had been
raving about the Peas being the half-
time show. So. I anxiously awaited.
Oh. it was quite a production.
Hundred of dancers. Some kind of
singers. Nothing that kept me glued
to the screen. I'm just not that into
rap or whatever it was. I did kind of
like the song about "it's going to be
a good night". At some bull ridings I
announce, they play that before the
bull riding. I can even sing along a
little, except for the high notes. But
that was about it.
Maybe it's just that I'm not much
into music concerts. The last concert
I went to was Buck Owens (I've Got
a Tiger By the Tail) in the early or
mid sixties at the Municipal
Auditorium in Minot. Now that was
music. They just don't make them
like that anymore. But I don't
remember the dancing like this show
had. But then again, there is a lot I
don't remember about the past fifty
years. Or even the past fifty hours.
Oh. yes, and the dancers. I could
never decide if they were dancers or
acrobats. And they were really well
lit. But I tell you what: they couldn't
hold a candle to Milo and Jutie doing
the polka in the Bahamas. Or the
waltzing on the Lawrence Welk
show. In fact in the middle of Split-
Pea Soup, I switched over and
watched the Lawrence Welk show.
Lawrence even shook a leg with
Sissy, o1" Missy, or whatever her
name ,is.
I guess the best dance I ever saw
was in the late eighties in Shawnee.
Oklahoma. At the National High
School Rodeo finals. The Bellamy
Brothers (If I Said You Had a
Beautiful Body Would You Hold It
Against Me). Boy, they don't make
songs like that any more.
At the Finals. one night they have
live entertainment for the contestants
and parents at the arena. And it had
rained a ~emendous amount. The
arena looked like a lake. A lake of
red Oklahoma mud. They had a big
tractor pull the flatbed trailers fur the
stage into the arena. It was a red.
muddy mess. And the Bellamy
Brothers were the act. Now. the
Bellamy Brothers are cowboys and
ranchers from Florida• You know
them. "I'm an Old Hippie" and clas-
sics like that.
The high school contestants are
required to wear white shirts, blue
jeans, and their back numbers at
these special events. The Bellamy
Brothers began their first set of
songs, A couple of exuberant youth
crawled over the fence and started
dancing in that arena mud. A couple
more brave souls scaled the fence.
The other 1200 high school kids saw
that nobody was going to get tasered
or tear gassed, and the stampede was
on. 1200 kids clambering down the
grandstand steps, piling over the
fence, and dancing in foot deep md
mud to the songs of the Bellamv's!
With parents and chaperones laugh-
ing, clapping, and enjoying the sight.
It was wonderful. A lasting memory.
So. you fans of String Beans and
Lentils. sorry, I'm just not that into
it.
Later. Dean
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To the editor:
Earlier this week, the residents
of Billings County voted in a recall
election for their school board.
Regardless of the outcome. I
believe some points need to be
brought up.
l am a parent of a student and
future students and a county res>
dent who voted last summer in the
school board elections. I am a resi-
dent of District 5. which, with the
few residents it has living in it. has
had a difficult time finding an inter-
ested party to serve on the school
board.
Mr. O'Brien had filled that posi-
tion for a number of years, and for
that period of time there had been
no opposition to whether or not he
resided at his residence in District
5. It was by write-in votes that he
was placed again on the board last
year, and only after this election did
anyone, specifically Mr. Kessel.
come forth with opposition to Mr.
O'Brien's board membership.
Anyone who wishes to sit on the
county school board has every fight
to make that known and has the
opportunity to petition for their
name to be on the ballot. Obviously
that was not done or there would
have been a candidate to vote for this
past summer for the District 5 seat.
As for the bus route bidding
procedures for which Mr. Kessel
has made known his concerns and
has had personal interest in, I pre-
fer to have the safety and reliabil-
ity of the contractor be of higher
importance than how low their
bid may be. As stated in the min-
utes from the board meeting on
June 3. 2010. when bids were
opened, the bid for route #1 was
rejected "due to an unsatisfactory
history with that contractor," and
the board voted to "rebid the
route." On rebids at the June 22,
2010. meeting, again the said
contractor's bid was removed
from consideration due to "'unsat-
isfactory history." Elections were
held prior to these meetings on
June 1.2010.
This recall election was of
~mportance because the parents
should have had their choice in who
would best represent them and their
students on the school board. We
did not have a choice: we had a
judge's order. And personally, if
Mr. Kessel wished that badly to be
on the school board, then he should
have rightfully petitionedto be on
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