Policing for Profit
by Jacques [email protected] For those unfamiliar with civil asset forfeiture, it is the process in which law enforcement officers take assets from a person.…
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War on women’s health
FARGO – Women’s health is on the frontlines in the war for healthcare dominance. On the side to repeal the Affordable Care Act led…
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One Congressman blocks Savanna’s Act, North Dakotans outraged
FARGO – While a lone Virginian Congressman blocks passage of Savanna’s Act, people across North Dakota are applying pressure to the state’s representative in…
Read NowSavanna’s Act passes U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Savanna’s Act passed unanimously in the U.S. Senate on Friday and will move to the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill,…
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Is China using a Native American front to build a state-owned oil refinery?
TRENTON – An oil company with deep ties to Chinese state-owned enterprises is attempting to quietly set up a refinery near a historical site…
Read NowCity Hall open for business
FARGO – City Hall may have taken a little more taxpayer money than originally expected, but it is now fully operational and ready for…
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As the world faces mass extinction from climate change, it’s business as usual in oil-rich North Dak
On the busiest shopping day of the year the federal government published an eye-opening report on climate change, saying that warming temperatures could soon…
Read Now‘Do yourself a favor and don’t come to jail’ for Christmas
FARGO – Early Tuesday morning Captain Andrew Frobig seated himself at his office desk, quickly discovering that the jail count was up. About 76…
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FEMA refuses to help Natives in state of emergency
OGLALA, South Dakota – Hundreds of Natives at the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation face life threatening danger after the Federal Emergency Management Agency refused…
Read NowA Battle Lost, A War Not Won
by Jacques [email protected] At first, optimism filled the air on Election Day at the Fargo Billiards and Gastropub. Earlier, Cole Haymond, the political strategist and campaign…
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A ‘Democratic bloodbath’ in North Dakota
FARGO — The promised blue tide didn’t sweep North Dakota; the state is redder than before. Across the nation, however, Democrats won majority of…
Read Now‘Standing Rock will vote’
FORT YATES – The Standing Rock Sioux are not angry. After centuries of unfair treaties and mistreatment they’re shrugging away the latest government attempt…
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Sen. Cory Booker: Heitkamp is ‘the antidote to what ails us’
CANNONBALL – As Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s four-day tour neared Standing Rock, Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey disclosed why he joined the North Dakota…
Read NowThe final Democratic push for North Dakota
FARGO – The differences between competing political rallies in North Dakota is palpable. Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s last push before Election Day – former Vice…
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Abuse of power?
BISMARCK – After medical marijuana’s Measure 5 was passed by more than 64 percent of North Dakotans in 2016, but before the legislature gutted…
Read NowVoter suppression begins
BISMARCK – The state’s agenda to suppress the Native vote is already working during early election. A handful of votes have already been denied…
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Justice for Savanna?
FARGO – Hours after Savanna Lafontaine Greywind’s body was stuffed into a cramped bathroom closet, police came to search Brooke Lynn Crews’s and William Hoehn’s…
Read NowLocal Fargo Organizations Plan First Summit for LGBTQ+ Folks
by: Melissa Gonzalez [email protected] North Dakota Human Rights Coalition held an LGBTQ+ Summit over the weekend of Oct. 5-7 at the Baymont Inn in…
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AG behind delayed medical marijuana law, opponent says
BISMARCK – The differences between two attorneys – one fighting to retain his Attorney General’s seat and the other striving to take it – couldn’t…
Read NowFinal sentence issued in Savanna Greywind’s case
FARGO – Although a jury found him innocent of conspiracy to murder Savanna Greywind, William Hoehn received a sentence of life imprisonment plus one year…
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In Texas, ACA is on the chopping block, at home, a scheduled hearing is postponed
BISMARCK – The sudden postponement of a hearing questioning the state joining a federal lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act appears to be a…
Read NowThe Rest of the World and Us – Rick Steves and Measure 3
by Jacques [email protected] Last Friday national travel host celebrity, activist, and philanthropist Rick Steves paid a visit to North Dakota in order to show…
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‘Sunshine disinfects’
FARGO – Ellen Chaffee wanted to know how much lobbyists were spending to influence North Dakota legislators. Online searches ended in dead ends. As…
Read NowALEC-backed legislators behind suppressing vote
BISMARCK– The U.S. Supreme Court decision to support North Dakota’s voter ID laws eliminating the use of postal addresses on identification cards was only…
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