Let's go time traveling today. We won't go far into the past, just a little less than a quarter century. Our sojourn will be brief, only long enough to reacquaint ourselves with the biggest political issue of the year.
The North Dakota stop on Scott Pruitt's "listening tour" produced a culture clash. Pruitt is the famously secretive administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a cabinet level position. North Dakota's political culture is one of th...
The barn swallow is a pretty little bird.It also can be an aggressive little pest.Therefore, human beings, and this individual human, tend to have a love-hate relationship with the swallow.
The scarcity of pine siskins reminds us that the appearance of many northern birds is unpredictable here. Some years, yes; some years, no or nearly so.This is true of the siskins, as discussed last week, and it is true also of grosbeaks and redpolls.
There's a bird in Canada's future-a national bird. The Canadian Geographic Society last month recommended a bird to represent the country. This follows an online, nationwide vote.The results are not quite official yet.The bird is the gray jay, wh...
As a journalist, I believe that all times are interesting, but some are more interesting than others. These are the most interesting that I remember. English has a word for these times. They are fraught-as my dictionary explains, "bearing promise...
North Dakota still responds to an Indian scare. That's one thing we can say about last week's news. On Friday, Gov. Jack Dalrymple declared a civil emergency in response to a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline would cross th...
Terry Wanzek chose the right word to describe corporate farming. Wanzek is the state senator who sponsored legislation that would amend North Dakota's anti-corporate farm laws. The bill's been referred, and its fate will be decided at the primary...
In last year's general election, a constitutional amendment to use some of North Dakota's oil wealth to fund conservation projects failed miserably. The amendment, Measure 5 on the November ballot, got 51,745 yes votes, less than 21 percent of th...
Milton R. Young may have been an improbable senator. He stuttered terribly. He had little formal education, attending North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University) only long enough to play football for one season, then enr...
