‘A child can only take so much’
FARGO – Christopher L. Thumb is a quiet boy, enjoys throwing a football with his siblings, listens to powwow music. New to Fargo after…
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No sweat improvements
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 23, 2018
FARGO – Water sizzles against scorched stones piled in a shallow pit center of Fargo’s only Indigenous sweat lodge. Faces gleam briefly before the…
Read NowThe high costs of low bail
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 21, 2018
FARGO – To hundreds of Fargo’s inmates, a C-Note-sized bail might as well be a million dollars. Unaffordable. On any given day the city’s…
Read Now‘We are the target’
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 15, 2018
FARGO – Nearly half of the Walmart employees claiming discrimination from management at the world’s largest retail chain came before Fargo’s Human Relations Commission Thursday,…
Read NowDrums in Fargo for missing Indigenous women
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 14, 2018
FARGO – Native drums reverberated through Downtown Fargo Wednesday when more than 200 people marched to bring awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women,…
Read NowIn the shadow of Walmart
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 7, 2018
FARGO – Twenty Walmart employees blame concentrated racist and prejudicial managerial practices for their sudden firings or dwindling losses in hours and pay. Those…
Read NowValve turner sentenced, behind bars
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 6, 2018
CAVALIER – From the day Michael Foster plotted his course to turn off the Keystone Pipeline, he knew prison was a possibility. On Tuesday…
Read Now‘True justice for Brooke Crews’
by C.S. Hagen | Feb 2, 2018
FARGO – Minutes before the judge sentenced Brooke Lynn Crews to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, the killer spoke, apologizing for her actions.…
Read NowHeidi: human to human connections that change the world
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 31, 2018
FARGO – Beneath Heidi Heitkamp’s political savvy is a creative activist, one who never takes no for an answer. She once lined the state…
Read NowThe dark side of Trump’s wall
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 31, 2018
WASHINGTON D.C. – While North Dakota’s chosen elected announced who they were taking to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, media across…
Read NowDemocrats announce candidacies
by HPR Staff | Jan 31, 2018
State Representative Josh Boschee, District 44, Fargo, announced his candidacy for the ND Democratic-NPL endorsement for Secretary of State on January 30. Boschee has served in the state…
Read NowLegacy of a Northern lynching
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 26, 2018
Editor’s note: warning, this article includes graphic images some readers may find disturbing. MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA – During the dark days after three African Americans were…
Read NowGovernment shutdown ends, the blame game picks up pace
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 22, 2018
WASHINGTON D.C. – The federal government reopened Monday, but not after blame shifting and a reluctant agreement made on key issues. Republicans declared victory,…
Read NowFargo’s 2018 Women’s March photographic feature
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 20, 2018
FARGO – Hundreds of thousands of women and men, young and old, took to the streets across America on Saturday, raising awareness for issues…
Read NowGOP optimism turning blue
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 17, 2018
FARGO – Republican optimism for enlisting Senate candidates is suffering blow after blow. Democrats have flipped eight Republican-controlled state legislative seats across the nation,…
Read NowStonewalled by federal court, Red Fawn Fallis changes plea
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 16, 2018
FARGO – Red Fawn Fallis, the woman charged with firing a handgun during the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, changed her plea Tuesday to guilty…
Read NowRep. Cramer not running for Senate
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 11, 2018
FARGO – Days after Congressman Kevin Cramer came under attack for nepotism and using taxpayer-funded Congressional resources to further a possible bid for a…
Read NowInfiltrated: No-DAPL activist hoodwinked by paid FBI informant, defense says
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 11, 2018
FARGO – Events leading up to the arrest of one of the Dakota Access Pipeline’s most prominent defendants played out like a game of…
Read NowDemocratic-NPL petitions national ethics entity to investigate Congressman Kevin Cramer
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 8, 2018
BISMARCK – Claiming the state’s only congressman uses campaign funds as a personal cash cow, fueling nepotism, and now using taxpayer-funded Congressional resources to…
Read NowOne state rep. badmouths constituents, another throws white power hand signals
by C.S. Hagen | Jan 3, 2018
BISMARCK – While a state representative from Minot faces criticism and an impeachment petition for repeatedly using offensive language in online posts, other elected officials…
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