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Sam Easter

Contributing reporter

Sam Easter is a freelance reporter who has been a regular contributor to the Herald since 2019.

Easter, a native of Midland, Mich., graduated from Central Michigan University in 2013 with a degree in English, after which he interned and worked a general-assignment beat for the Bay City Times/MLive.

In 2015, he joined the Herald’s staff as City Hall reporter, covering North Dakota politics at all levels and conducting Herald investigations through early 2018, when he began his freelancing career.

His work has since appeared in The Washington Post, Vice, The Daily Beast and other publications.

Easter, who speaks English and Spanish and uses the pronouns he/him/his, can be reached at samkweaster@gmail.com or via Twitter via @samkweaster.

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For more than three decades, the group has helped bring big business to Grand Forks — including Fufeng Group — to shepherd the community toward a bigger and better economy.
The project, if completed, would represent an enormous investment in Grand Forks’ economy — if it can withstand all the scrutiny.
The letter specifically asks for a close federal review of the land purchase made earlier this year in northern Grand Forks that makes way for the company’s arrival — which is still being vetted by City Hall. But Fufeng Group’s ties to China have drawn significant criticism.
Council leaders, who were meeting in committee session, voted 4-2 to approve early funding plans, which chart out the financial future of a north-end chunk of Falconer Township.
In an April 29 letter first reported by The Associated Press, WBI Energy Transmission told North Dakota leaders that the construction of a state-spanning pipeline is not “commercially viable at this time."
Closed-door meeting took place Wednesday afternoon.
City Administrator Todd Feland said city leaders are set to meet with FBI agents for an “unclassified briefing” on Wednesday at City Hall.
Signatures were gathered in an attempt to put the future of a proposal corn-milling factor to a public vote.
Markets have already recorded volatile swings for commodities like fuel and wheat, with one American benchmark for crude oil surging since mid-February.
Ben Grzadzielewski, one of the leading members of the petition drive, said that petitioners handed over 5,318 signatures at 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning.