Port: Thank you for watching the Plain Talk debates

Port: Thank you for watching the Plain Talk debates

MINOT — When we were making our plans for the Plain Talk debates, our producer sent us a set design that had the traditional set-up. The candidates would stand behind podiums on either side of the set, while my co-host Chad Oban and I would sit at a desk in the center from which we would pose the questions. I rejected this. We get too much of politicians and pundits shouting at one another across the canyons of social media, or from competing fr…