October 11th, 2018
FARGO – Bob Berg wore the Pullman-brown jacket and drove a matching-colored UPS truck throughout North Dakota until he retired, faithfully deducting his salary every month to fund his pension.
Now, he’s getting far less than he saved for and was promised. His pension has taken a $700 monthly hit, and insurance rates have risen by $400 each month.
Dennis Kooren also wore the same iconic jacket for 30 years, retiring in 2007. Until three years ago, his pension came in full, and then…
October 10th, 2018
by Ryan Janke
ryanjanke@hpr1.com
Leaves on the lawn. Frost on the windshield. Street lights coming on shortly after supper. Your breath visible walking to your car. If you’ve stepped outside lately, it didn’t take you long to figure out winter is coming.
Some people hate it - the slippery sidewalks and streets, the shoveling, and sitting in a cold car waiting for the defroster to clear the windshield. Others love it - snowmobiling, ice skating, and taking the kids sledding. Whatever…
October 10th, 2018
by Jacques Harvieux
jacquesthejock@gmail.com
Local television station Valley News Live is misleading viewers on Measure 3 - the legalization of recreational marijuana to be voted on this November - by skewing polling information and using heavily biased statistics to fit an anti-marijuana narrative.
This Wednesday Valley News Live produced an article, “Not Much Support for Recreational Pot in ND.” The article quotes a recent polling survey conducted by Strategic Research Associates…
October 9th, 2018
FARGO – Every time the state legislature meets to discuss healthcare issues, Jennifer Restemayer holds her breath, watches, and waits. The West Fargo resident displayed a picture of her daughter, Allison, who suffers from a genetic disorder, and wouldn’t be alive today if the Affordable Care Act hadn’t been passed.
Allison, a high school senior now, needs approximately $300,000 worth of hospital care every year just to live, she said. Before the Affordable Care Act was passed her…
October 4th, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp plans to vote against the nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals of the D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
After weeks of waiting for an answer and not answering questions pertaining to the nomination hand picked by President Donald Trump, Heitkamp gave her reasons for not giving Kavanaugh her vote for the first time in a press release.
“As I said after Judge Kavanaugh was nominated, and as I’ve continued to say…
October 1st, 2018
BISMARCK – Eight months after the state’s Attorney General joined Texas and 18 other states in a federal lawsuit attempting to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, a Bismarck attorney filed a lawsuit requesting the state withdraw.
Thomas Dickson of Dickson Law Office and five other petitioners filed a suit against current Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem arguing that the Texas should not speak for the sovereign state of North Dakota, and that Stenehjem is breaking state…
October 1st, 2018
BISMARCK – All the usual suspects are opposing Measure 1, the initiated attempt to form an ethics commission that would create transparency into the state’s political system.
On one side, the North Dakotans for Public Integrity, with approximately $340,000 in reported contributions want to establish a five-member commission whose job will be to ban political contributions from foreign government entities, foreign individuals, foreign corporations, restrict lobbyists, and require all…
September 28th, 2018
FARGO – A jury found William Henry Hoehn not guilty on a charge of conspiracy to murder Savanna Lafontaine Greywind Friday afternoon, shocking onlookers and family.
The Greywind family gasped audibly when the verdict was read. Norberta Greywind, Savanna’s mother, hung her head in her hands as the jury left, silently weeping. Other family friends wept openly in the court hallways.
Cass County State’s Attorney Leah Viste said she was disappointed with the verdict, but if new…
September 27th, 2018
FARGO – “My life has been repeated loss of everything,” William Hoehn said to his mother over a jailhouse phone recording. He sounded frustrated, angry. “Repeatedly and totally.”
Hoehn, 33, was warning his mother to stay away from a previous fiancée, Tanith McCloud on September 16, 2017. A month after his final arrest, facing charges of conspiracy to murder Savanna Lafontaine Greywind, unsure at the time if he would be facing the death penalty, his concern was to tell his…
September 27th, 2018
All Donald Heitkamp wanted in 2010 was to find the person responsible for his pesticide-destroyed crops. Instead, the farmer of wheat, corn, and soybeans in Richland County became embroiled in a battle against what he calls corruption, secretive pardons, and a state department agenda to protect big business.
Smiles still come easily to the 66-year-old farmer, despite his eight long years of fighting the system. He’s not jaded, and although his own investigations and requests for help…
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