Valley City: Microcosm of the Nation
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City of Fargo plans summer street improvement projects
by qrsot | Mar 22, 2017
32nd Avenue improvements, wastewater removal, buffered bike lanes and street light projects are all on the agenda for Fargo – coming to a neighborhood…
Read NowCormorant has gone to the dogs
by qrsot | Mar 8, 2017
Cormorant is one of many small lakeside townships in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes. With a population barely exceeding one thousand, the town…
Read NowUnited Nations denounces North Dakota State Government
by C.S. Hagen | Mar 8, 2017
CANNON BALL – Bakken oil could be flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline within a week, but Standing Rock still hopes for a legal…
Read Now“Two Worlds Collided”
by C.S. Hagen | Mar 2, 2017
FARGO – Lamar Heidersheid brought his 15-year-old daughter Angelina to the Fargo Community Sweat Lodge for the first time last week. He wanted the…
Read NowA license to hate
by C.S. Hagen | Mar 2, 2017
FARGO – Militarized police armed with emergency declarations, beanbags and bullets, zip ties and presidential orders, have scattered most of the camps pitted against…
Read NowThreats Directed At Native American Arrested From Sweat Lodge
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 25, 2017
FARGO – Barking dogs don’t bite, but they’re noisy and excitable. The day Zebediah Gartner, an Anishinaabe from Fargo, was released from Cass County…
Read NowFargo Police Arrest Native American From Sweat Lodge
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 24, 2017
FARGO – Fargo Police pulled Native Americans out of a sweat lodge during a spiritual ceremony Thursday night, and took one to jail wearing…
Read NowThe Final Standing Rock
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 23, 2017
CANNON BALL – Twenty hours before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ deadline to evacuate the Oceti camps, the thunder beings arrived. And geese…
Read NowOf Pets And Politics
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 22, 2017
FARGO – Choose to be oblivious. Choose to learn. Choose a story. Learn a cause. Choose to read. Choose anger. Choose to reject glacier…
Read NowNew nonprofit F5 Project helps rebuild felons’ lives
by qrsot | Feb 22, 2017
Four years ago, Adam Martin lost everything. He was homeless, had no car, no license, no job, no phone, and lost custody of his…
Read NowThe Siege of Standing Rock
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 15, 2017
CANNON BALL – Standing Rock’s fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline has all the ingredients of legend, with only the ending remaining be be…
Read NowNorth Dakota’s 100-Year War
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 9, 2017
Alt-White: The Siege of North Dakota. Part Three in the series on racism in North Dakota. Inescapable comparisons between the political, racial, and economic…
Read NowDAPL Easement Issued, Pipeline Work Will Soon Begin
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 8, 2017
CANNON BALL – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the final easement needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline Wednesday afternoon, sparking fierce…
Read NowThe Wiindigo comes in the winter
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 8, 2017
CANNON BALL – Rumors, like the Wiindigo, are never full. They prey on the weak, devouring their kill, always hungry, gluttonous yet emaciated. The…
Read NowCritics: Legislators Attempt To Rewrite Measure 5 is “Abomination”
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 7, 2017
FARGO – Days after North Dakota Legislation declared an emergency measure postponing Measure 5, or the North Dakota Medical Marijuana Initiative, a new bill…
Read Now“An Act of War”
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 7, 2017
CANNON BALL – A digital wail resounded across the Internet Tuesday afternoon after the Department of the Army announced it would be authorizing the…
Read Now“Project Wake Up Call:” Fargo’s Fight Against Racism Begins
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 2, 2017
FARGO – Fargoans, in the hundreds, from every race, religion, and creed, met Thursday afternoon to resist a North Dakota bill that plans to…
Read Now“Kicking the Cannabis Can”
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 2, 2017
FARGO – State politicians are playing an exclusive game of ‘kick the can’ with Measure 5, or the North Dakota Medical Marijuana Initiative, which…
Read NowDozens Arrested at Last Child’s Camp
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 2, 2017
CANNON BALL – Dozens of police and National Guard swarmed Last Child’s Camp Wednesday afternoon, arresting approximately 76 activists including attorney Chase Iron Eyes.…
Read NowIs The Pen Mightier Than The Law?
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 1, 2017
CANNON BALL – Nearly two months after the Standing Rock’s victory against big oil, Trump’s Administration is trying to take it away. Senator John…
Read NowWhite supremacists’ hit list of small towns
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 25, 2017
Since the town of Leith’s victory against white supremacists, eleven towns across North Dakota made their hit list. The towns range from populations of…
Read NowRodent Poison Spread by North Dakota Rancher Not Cause for “DAPL Cough”
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 24, 2017
CANNON BALL – Around the time Standing Rock’s first camp was pitched against the Dakota Access Pipeline, a deadly poison was spread across thousands…
Read Now“This Is Not A War”
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 19, 2017
CANNON BALL – Inch by inch, coil by razor-tipped coil, Standing Rock activists near the Dakota Access Pipeline drill pad. During the past week…
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