"I’m sure they’re both good people, but what I suggest, if you really want to have a positive effect on North Dakota, is to use the money being wasted on media ads and use that to increase the salaries of educators, first responders, cutting property taxes, etc," writes John LaChance.
"Parties with vested interests in keeping them separate will never support merging, so momentum will need to come from the citizens themselves," writes Nicholas Oberholtzer of Fargo.
"The Forum editors should be embarrassed by their failure to even recognize that an impactful and truthful (go ahead and fact-check that) State of the Union address was delivered by our president," writes Rhonda Loberg.
Christine Kman, president and co-founder of Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates, writes about the public favoring keeping the wild horses and longhorn cattle at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
First elected to the position in 2020, Preston previously served on the commission from 1992 to 2000 and also on the Fargo Board of Education from 2002 to 2006.