Tensions are on the rise in Eddy County over the PRC industrial wind tower project and the community is clearly divided.

A core questions comes to mind:

How do residents benefit from the installation of 118 660-foot behemoths scattered throughout a 43,000-acre plot in Wells and Eddy County?

I believe there are three primary answers:

1. Some will say to reduce carbon dioxide levels. Most ag producers and people that have an interest in horticulture understand the CO2 fear hoax and know that CO2 is a critical element for plant life.

2. Some will say to generate added income for our counties. It has been suggested that after completion of the project that Eddy County could receive around $1,000,000 annually. This may seem like a windfall, however, $1,000,000 will barely cover the cost to pave one mile of road. This is simply a drop in the bucket with regards to the needs of our counties.

3. And others will say to provide added personal income. This will primarily benefit a few individuals, those that own land in the footprint and those that have invested into the project. Most individuals in our county will not be receiving any direct benefits.

The result of this industrial park will leave some property owners squarely in the middle of a 118-tower field with no compensation and the reality of diminished property values, elimination of wildlife and health hazards for decades to come.

It’s easy to see how people can become divided. Money seems to bring out the greed in people.

Individual property rights are key and both sides of this quandary are adamant about their positions.

There needs to be a compromise. A minimum of a one-mile setback will give residents a buffer from the 600-foot towers and will allow them the opportunity to negotiate for a reduced setback if desired. This should be a win for both sides of the issue.

In the end we need to avoid dividing our communities and to promote an equitable solution.

Larry Danduran, New Rockford

This is my response to “It’s Time to Get Involved” by Patricia Patrie. She points out about slavery being wrong and mentions Jim Crow laws, but she doesn’t go into who was behind slavery, KKK, lynching, Jim Crow laws and segregation. Patricia also says that D.O.G.E. is a fake name. Could that be because she doesn’t like Donald Trump?

Trump is just doing what he ran on and said he was going to do. As the President, Trump has the power to appoint Elon Musk as head of D.O.G.E. The American people gave Trump a MANDATE when they elected him. The electors want the corruption and fraud out of the government, even though Patricia doesn’t sound like she does, it has been running rampant for decades usually under the Democrats and some of the Republicans. I can only conclude that Patricia think she knows more than the electors and that it takes mills of employees to keep the government running and growing under Democrat and Republican administrations. I say that is garbage.

Patricia also whines about Trump wanting to do away with the Department of Education (DOE). We didn’t have a DOE until Jimmy Carter (D) in the 1970’s. Let’s look at what has been happening to our schools since? The students have been getting dumbed down according to test scores revealed to the parents and the public through the Covid 19 Debacle. Patricia talks as if she doesn’t realize that not everything in the DOE will be done away with. Many of the departments will be moved to different parts of the government. To me, Patricia’s call to get involved sounded like a scare tactic for the public as we have been seeing from the Democrats call to enrage their base. At the state level, it would be the best place for controlling the education of their students and it gives some accountability to the education instruction by the parents and/or voters. Complainers like Patricia don’t like accountability as long as they can fill their pockets.

Patricia also says that Trump is illegally expelling people from our country. Well, the people that he is expelling are here illegally. They were brought in without going through the proper channels, under an administration of a Democrat. It is up to the Executive Branch to see that our laws are followed. As far as I am concerned, those who are here illegally have no right to any of our rights granted to a Real Citizen of the USA, and our Constitution. As I see it, they invaded our country with massive numbers. Patricia is blinded by her political ideas to not see the all-out invasion which should, under any other situation, prompt a call from our military to protect the Homeland.

Patricia’s hope for those that see and hear what she writes will become involved. Some of us have minds of our own that discern the difference of propaganda from truth. You and I have watched in the past years when Democrat leaders call for action of their base. As we watched them rise to the call, we saw the protests turn to violence in the summer of love with all the rioting, burning, looting, and murders. Parts of the cities were overtaken and the maiming of the police and some members of the right.

Some may not like to hear this, but some of us out here in the real world, pray for people like Patricia. I don’t wish for harm to come to her or people like her, however, her undertone wishes Donald Trump and his supporter’s harm. I pray that she may be saved by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Lee Wentz, Harvey, ND

This is my opinion from things I have learned going into the primary season.

I recently talked with someone concerning this past primary season, because they said there wasn’t anyone running against Jerry Klein, Robin Weisz and Jon Nelson and that is bull. There were three others running, Karisa Grothe, Larry Danduran and Jason Steidl.

I told them about them and they said that they didn’t get out, and tell people what they stand for and why they want the job. Well again that is a bunch of bunk. They held many townhalls around District 14, they also went door knocking around most of the district. They only thing I can say is, it is hard for people to find out about meetings when within a day or so of signs or pamphlets being put up around the community, someone would tear them down. The Harvey radio station even had it on about the townhalls in this area, the Eagles and the golf course. But very few people showed up. But I did see that one longtime Democrat did come to the Eagles to see who they were and what they stood for.

The way I see it is that so many people nowadays could really care less who they vote for as long as they recognize the names. They could really care less about what they really stand for, how they have voted on certain issues, who is mainly putting money into their election coffers (PACS, vaccine manufacturers, big businesses, unions, other politicians and what party they are with, etc) and whether or not they follow the Republican Platform.

Most of our so-called Republicans (I call them Judases, not RINO’s, after the one that sold out Jesus) because they have sold their souls and lied to get where they are. But people only like the people that have greased the wheels and make sure others know about it. Such as how they got the money for Harvey’s Senior Center and the new signs for the shortest highway in ND, the highway signs were a big waste of money as far as I am concerned but our elected officials like too waste money on such dumb things, because it isn’t their money, and they can brag what money they got for the area, and they do brag about it. They will just tax the people more to get what they want and to hell with the people (SLAVES) to the state.

People are too ignorant to see how big of SLAVES we have gotten to be, to the state, and they don’t care.

Klein, Weisz and Nelson also said that the ones running against them were spreading all sorts of lies about their voting record, because they didn’t like how they were depicted on LEGINATE found at [www.leginate.com] (which is a legislative analysis of their voting record, during every legislative assembly). LEGINATE was done on, I think, all the states and their elected officials and their voting record (did they vote with the democrats or republicans). North Dakota has the most democrat voting republicans of any state. So they should be running as democrats but since ND is mainly republican they will lie when they are really democrats in hiding, because people could care less as long as there is an R by their names. They just don’t want to check into the people themselves. So that is why I say we have an uneducated electorate. When you really check out their voting record you will see how much they are the liars themselves. They even lied about things that Grothe, Danduran, and Steidl never said about them at any of the townhalls I went too. A person can check out the District 14 Website and see how Klein, Weisz, and Nelson lied about the nominating meeting, but people just want to believe them and not see it for themselves.

Well, since term limits passed, we will be rid of at least one of them after this term expires.

I just wish people would start taking their vote more seriously, do your homework on the candidate (how they vote, where is their money coming from, what are their beliefs and how easily do you think they will sell out) don’t just go by what others say because they may have been a Wheel that was Greased, by them at some time of another.

The Republican party in this state is still garbage but it is a little bit better under Sandie Sanford. When people aren’t nominated by their district, they should not be able to run in that district without having to become independents. Doug Burgum, Jack Dalrimple and John Hoven were the ones that really started this state down the rathole along with selling their souls to Satan, but our citizens have done nothing to STOP them, because they are just being good little SLAVES.