A Child’s Christmas in Fargo
by Gary [email protected] It’s mid-December and as wintery conditions and the Christmas holidays approach, I’m reminded of a story my mother told me about…
Read NowColumns · 2018
RIP, North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party
by Jim Fuglie | Nov 14, 2018
For all intents and purposes, the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party is bankrupt. North Dakota is now a one-party state. That’s sad. Because it wasn’t…
Read Now2018 Election Notes
by Jim Fuglie | Nov 14, 2018
With Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s loss in last week’s election, Republicans now hold every statewide elected office. Democrats have none. I don’t know if there’s…
Read NowSenator Heitkamp? Congressman Schneider? Maybe . . .
by Jim Fuglie | Oct 31, 2018
Okay, against my better judgment, again, I’m going to weigh in on the 2018 election, just a week hence. Here goes. I told Democratic-NPL…
Read NowAn Open Letter to North Dakota Students
by HPR Contributor | Oct 24, 2018
Dear Students, I’ll get right to the point. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp supports your voice, your expression. Regardless if you support her. Regardless if you…
Read NowWhich Way will The PSC Go On The Refinery?
by Jim Fuglie | Oct 3, 2018
There are two ways to look at the recommendation of Administrative Law Judge Patrick Ward that the North Dakota Public Service Commission dismiss the…
Read NowThe Cultural Cringe has come to North Dakota
by HPR Contributor | Sep 5, 2018
by Andrew Alexis [email protected] “If a piece of equipment purchased in the 1920s is kept up and can guarantee, at present, an operable rate…
Read NowScenic River Commission Turns Out to Be A Rubber Stamp For Industry
by Jim Fuglie | Aug 29, 2018
In the halcyon days of the 1970s in North Dakota, when the state was a quieter, kinder, friendlier, more thoughtful place, the Legislature passed…
Read NowFarewell statement from Senator John McCain
by HPR Contributor | Aug 28, 2018
by Senator John McCain – from Facebook page “My fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for sixty years, and especially my fellow Arizonans,…
Read NowWhat To Do About A Bridge That Shouldn’t Be There
by Jim Fuglie | Aug 22, 2018
The Bismarck Tribune’s Amy Dalrymple’s wrote a good story recently about a marathon Little Missouri Scenic River Commission meeting. I’m going to write more…
Read NowA bridge to nowhere
by Jim Fuglie | Aug 15, 2018
Well, after nearly a dozen years of delay, it looks like Billings County is finally going to build a bridge over the Little Missouri…
Read NowPutin’s Plutocratic Puppet and the Specter of an American Gulag
by Charlie Barber | Aug 15, 2018
“Liberty is a strong food, but a difficult one to digest; it needs a healthy stomach. I laugh at those degraded people who, letting…
Read NowHigh Plains Radicals
by HPR Contributor | Aug 8, 2018
By Gary [email protected] “The sun was shining as I was strollingThe wheat field waving the dust clouds rollingThe fog was lifting a voice was…
Read NowObituary: The Show Hall in Rocklake, North Dakota
by HPR Contributor | Aug 8, 2018
By Mark [email protected] The first brick building had just gone up on the corner of the block. The government built that to house…
Read NowTrump to Republicans: “Wave the Flag, and Waive Your Conscience”
by Charlie Barber | Aug 8, 2018
“Hell… is the suffering of being unable to love.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky “I and the public know, what all school children learn; those to whom…
Read NowMore on the ‘Families Belong Together’ Rallies
by HPR Contributor | Jul 11, 2018
By Gary [email protected] Recognition of the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation…
Read NowDavis Refinery update
by Jim Fuglie | Jul 11, 2018
“Davis Refinery permit approved.” That was the headline in the paper last week, telling us that the North Dakota Department of Health has approved…
Read NowA new watchdog group for the Badlands
by Jim Fuglie | Jun 27, 2018
North Dakota has more than a million acres of public land, most of it in western North Dakota, our Little Missouri National Grasslands, managed…
Read NowKeeping FM C.L.E.A.N
by HPR Contributor | Jun 20, 2018
By Paul Jensen Fargo, as the most populous city in the state with 120,000 inhabitants, added nearly 6,000 20-to-34-year-olds in 2015, just over five…
Read NowPaper Towels for Puerto Rico; Family Separations for Refugees of Color:
by Charlie Barber | Jun 20, 2018
Deadly souvenirs of a fake presidency
Read NowEnding Poverty Is A Moral Imperative
by HPR Contributor | Jun 6, 2018
Gary [email protected] “Rev. William Barber is the closest thing to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that we have in our midst.”– Prof. Cornell West on…
Read NowSinclair promotes propaganda with mandatory message threatening democracy as we know it
by HPR Contributor | May 30, 2018
By Ty [email protected] With “Fake News” and “Alternative Facts” becoming a large and influential topic since the 2016 Presidential election, many people have become…
Read NowGateways to history are best kept open
by HPR Contributor | May 23, 2018
By Ken [email protected] When the State of North Dakota decided to sell the campus of the Ellendale Branch of the University of North Dakota…
Read NowOf Swamps, Sewers, “Deep States” and Mixed Metaphors
by Charlie Barber | May 16, 2018
“Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater private security group and a close campaign adviser to Donald Trump, met a Russian financier with direct ties…
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