News

In the shadow of Walmart

February 7th, 2018

FARGO – Twenty Walmart employees blame concentrated racist and prejudicial managerial practices for their sudden firings or dwindling losses in hours and pay.

Those who say they’re affected, most originally from Somalia or Kenya, say there are more former refugees and immigrants afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs in the Fargo area, who are being discriminated against because of the color of their skin, or because they wear hijabs. A hijab is the traditional head…

Valve turner sentenced, behind bars

February 6th, 2018

CAVALIER – From the day Michael Foster plotted his course to turn off the Keystone Pipeline, he knew prison was a possibility. On Tuesday morning the activist was taken into custody after a North Dakota judge sentenced him to three years imprisonment with two years suspended.

The state’s prosecution wanted to make an example out of Foster to deter future instances, and recommended a sentence of five years imprisonment and three years suspended for Foster. The prosecution, which…

‘True justice for Brooke Crews’

February 2nd, 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.

“I wish I could take their pain, there is no excuse,” Crews said. “I deserve every year I get, and I know it doesn’t help.”

Crews was describing the pain of Savanna LaFontaine Greywind’s family, and for one of Fargo’s daughters she killed, and for the infant she stole from Savanna’s womb while she was eight…

Heidi: human to human connections that change the world

January 31st, 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 capitol with tiny shoes to raise awareness of child abuse, and cut her political teeth on the Equal Rights Amendment.

It’s not the state’s first elected female U.S. senator’s job to follow her party line, but to represent the predominantly red state in Washington D.C.

She is, at her core, an arbitrator, a political referee in a divided nation,…

The dark side of Trump’s wall

January 31st, 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 the state kept one piece of information about Congressman Kevin Cramer’s guest quiet.

Cramer, R-ND, the state’s only Congressman, announced he would bring Tommy Fisher, president and CEO of Fisher Industries. Fisher Industries, or Fisher Sand & Gravel Company, in southwestern North Dakota, is one of six companies given a…

Democrats announce candidacies

January 31st, 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 legislature since 2013. He is a member of the Administrative Rules Committee, the Government Finance Committee, and the Workers' Compensation Review Committee.

Fargo businessman Brandon Medenwald and Paula Thomas announced their intentions to seek Democratic endorsements for the North Dakota State House…

Legacy of a Northern lynching

January 26th, 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 lynched by an angry mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a sepia-toned postcard was sold depicting the event. Two bodies against a lamppost, necks twisted away from the camera, ropes taught against their skin, dangled over a third body on the ground. In the postcard, the lynched men are cut out, pasted across a massive crowd…

Government shutdown ends, the blame game picks up pace

January 22nd, 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, and some analysts agree, adding it will be short-lived.

Short-lived because now responsibility lies with Republicans to live up to their promises.

Despite a Republican in the White House and current majorities in Congress, the federal government went into shutdown on the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s…

Fargo’s 2018 Women’s March photographic feature

January 20th, 2018

FARGO - Hundreds of thousands of women and men, young and old, took to the streets across America on Saturday, raising awareness for issues from women's rights, Black Lives Matter, missing Indigenous women, DACA, immigration freedom, misogyny, the MeToo movement, reproductive rights, and more. In Fargo-Moorhead, nearly 1,000 people participated in the march.

Indivisible FM led the march, and issues such as Black Lives Matter, missing Indigenous women, fight white supremacy, gay rights, women's rights, DACA, and reproductive rights were brought up - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Nationwide, the Women's March attracted hundreds of thousands of people marching for women's rights and more - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Democracy not fascism - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Fargo police were keeping an eye on the marchers, no rubber bullets, pepper sprays, or water cannons were observed - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Other issues marchers brought up included Trupm and state politician's practice of misogyny - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Marchers included the

Fargo's 2018 Women's March marched through downtown Fargo, circled the Fargo Forum building, and ended back at the Civic Center - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Fargo police on the streets - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Marchers also raised awareness for missing Indigenous women - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Native Americans were also represented at the Women's March - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Local white supremacist, Pete Tefft, attended the rally, and marchers shouted him out - photograph by C.S. Hagen

Fargo's Women's March 2018 - encircling white supremacist Pete Teft - photograph by C.S. Hagen

While President Trump tweets about women marching for

2018 Women's March in Fargo began and ended at the Civic Center - photograph by C.S. Hagen

GOP optimism turning blue

January 17th, 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, from Roy Moore’s loss to former federal prosecutor Doug Jones in Alabama, to elections in Florida, and to Virginia. The GOP’s majority grip is slipping.