Obamacare is booming
FARGO – In what critics describe as a Presidential temper tantrum, Donald Trump scaled back subsidies to reduce premiums after striking out with his…
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“Radicalized capitalists are the terrorists”
MANDAN – Defense lawyers are whittling down the cases involved with the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, but the sudden imprisonment of two last month came…
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‘A thousand Saddams’
Yazidi family’s journey from war-torn Iraq to America MOORHEAD – Today, Ezzat Khudhur Alhaidar is safe from ISIS guns, but the memories of war…
Read NowFrom the U.S. to India: emancipating women
Over 7,000 miles yawn between Comstock, Minnesota, where the Begunahi Foundation is based, and Uttar Pradesh, the state in northern India, which Preeti Varma…
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Milk war worries
FARGO – Nearly half a century has passed since North Dakota’s last milk war. In those days, when dairy farmers couldn’t make enough to live,…
Read NowDrug deal gone wrong, drive-by shooting
FARGO – Two suspects were arrested Sunday after a drive-by shooting in South Fargo. Oscar Kayee, 26, of West Fargo, and Ryan N. Kitch, 21,…
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First anti-DAPL activists sentenced to jail
MANDAN – Hundreds of trials for activists who stood against the Dakota Access Pipeline have seen the judge’s gavel, but only two, so far, received…
Read NowSpeaker at NDSU Purports Racist and Anti-LGBTQ Agenda
FARGO – A week before William Fleck decided to attend an anti-LGBTQ speech at NDSU, a transgender friend committed suicide. Fleck’s friend was bullied. He…
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Rally against hate takes place of pro-white rally
MOORHEAD – The original day set for a white supremacist rally came and went without so much as a whimper from local hate groups. Multiple…
Read NowCollege newspapers targeted by KKK
VALLEY CITY – The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are targeting North Dakota university newspapers in a cry for help: a book…
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Hate crime resolution passes in Fargo
FARGO – Fargo City Commissioners passed a resolution to establish the city as a hate-free community on Monday, and one commissioner voted against the…
Read NowA valve turner’s trial: mostly guilty
CAVALIER – Friends call Michael Foster the valve turner a hero, the state is trying him as a criminal, and the Keystone Pipeline named…
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Modern feudalism: tenant vs. landlord
MOORHEAD – Water seeps into the Barbly family rental house, and has been leaking for two years, creating mold, eating away at trim, and…
Read Now‘No one should have to be afraid’
WOODWORTH, N.D. – Autym Burke spent months preparing a nursery for the child she thought she was to adopt. Living in Oregon, she’d seen…
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ND medical-legal partnership: lawyers and physicians to help the needy
When it comes to the intersection of healthcare and civil law, Anne Hoefgen, executive director of Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota (LSNM), has a…
Read Now‘North Dakota just got punked’
BISMARCK – Since 1977, the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act have applied to all U.S. persons, except, apparently, Dakota Access Pipeline,…
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Suspects in Savanna’s murder plead not guilty
FARGO – Brooke Lynn Crews pled not guilty to all charges related to Savanna Lafontaine-Greywind’s murder and kidnapping of her child in Cass County…
Read Now‘They are stealing our babies’
WOODWORTH – A former case manager for the Spirit Lake Tribal Social Services is under police investigation for fraud and allegedly faking adoptions for…
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Nation, city, misleading public on refugee costs
Refugees cost taxpayers money, but the buck doesn’t stop there FARGO – All fingers point to refugees being cost positive for cities, states, and…
Read NowOne, two, three strikes, you’re out
Republicans fail again to repeal and replace Obamacare FARGO – If major league baseball rules applied to government, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care…
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State settles misconduct allegations with Dakota Access Pipeline developers
BISMARCK – The Dakota Access Pipeline developer agreed to plant trees to reach a settlement over two misconduct allegations while constructing the pipeline on…
Read NowAbove and beyond the call of duty
By Sabrina Hornung and Tom Bixby He came into the Gladstone Inn in Jamestown and asked if he could use the phone. He had…
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Local feces hate crime marks sixth racial incident in 2017
FARGO – A Somali-American discovered animal feces spread inside his vehicle Monday evening, an incident many believe was a direct threat and a hate…
Read NowThat App you didn’t know you needed
There’s a problem. Android has a great open market for apps, but that leaves it open to a ton of vulnerabilities. So you can…
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