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My Reply To Roxane Salonen (Jan 2025). Published in the Fargo Forum Newspaper.

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In response to  Roxane Salonen's Jan. 5 column,  yes, people should not light other people on fire, in a subway or anywhere else. I favor a reasonable immigration policy that keeps America safe, competitive, and multicultural. Congressional efforts to do something of this sort were blocked by incoming President Donald Trump, who preferred to keep the issue alive rather than have Republicans and Democrats work together to get something sane done. Yes, people should not molest or rape other people, family, or strangers. Parenting is a serious business and something worth protecting. However, most same-sex or opposite-sex couples that do adopt kids do not abuse them, but they do sometimes embarrass them, especially when the kids hit adolescence. Yes, I would agree with the concept that “we’re all made in God’s image and likeness”, although I would assume that includes the immigrants, as well as members of the LGBTQ+/Allied community. Yes, reasonable legal and medical guardrails s...
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Letter: If you want to write about the unhoused population, I suggest spending the night at a shelter

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  Recent Forum columns and   editorials on the homeless population   reminds me of when I ran for Moorhead mayor in 2001. Lack of affordable housing was the top issue that most area residents expressed concern about. The second most frequent complaint was civil rights. Yes, bigotry still does exist in the Fargo-Moorhead area, but laws have become more respectful of civil rights. And the civil rights conversations that occur are more frequent and more respectful than in the past. This does not seem to have happened concerning affordable housing. Let us say, for argument's sake, that most of the homeless people are poor, weird and eccentric. Well, merely being weird and engagingly eccentric is not a crime. It is not a crime in America to be poor, although, as an indigent person, it can certainly sometimes feel like it is burdensome, if not de facto illegal. If certain members of the homeless community are threatening public safety or the rights of other people, the law can ...
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