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​Walk about wonder

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | March 16th, 2026

…voters, mostly young, did not vote in the Trump-Clinton race. I’m convinced if Bernie had been the candidate in 2016, he would have spirited millions of those young voters to vote for a Democratic Socialist who is still walking about to find the common good.Reach The Gadfly at fargo gadfly

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​Deport liars to Mars

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 10th, 2026

…and coached thousands of baseball games in Little League, high school, American Legion, Park Board, amateur, college and semi-pro games. You learn about life when the ball bounces the wrong or right way or the ball hits the diamond foul or fair by inches.Reach The Gadfly at fargo gadfly

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The Little Newspaper That Could

by John Strand | Editorial | September 19th, 2024

…Happy 30th Birthday HPRBy John Strandjas@hpr1.comThirty years ago some gutsy UND student journalists hanging at Whitey’s in East Grand Forks got enough liquid courage to create their own damn newspaper. Then with drinks raised, they toasted the paper’s name, the High Plains Reader. The first issue was dated September 8,…

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Whatever Happened to Local Control?

by Sabrina Hornung | Gadfly | February 11th, 2021

…gadfly@gmail.comWhen the Free Market Gets Very Expensive for the Little GuyAbout 15 years ago we spent two winters in Sun City, Arizona when the right-wing Republican legislature was playing a child’s game of “King of the Hill,” passing all kinds of junk aberrant bills about abortion, sex, gender, free speech,…

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Our Local Nonprofits Are Struggling to Survive

by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | January 23rd, 2021

…Gadfly and Greg Carlson online at hpr1.com.Additionally, we’d like to welcome Alicia Underlee Nelson back to the HPR sales department. After over 15 years with us, Jay Miller accepted a new position with Minnesota Public Radio. We wish Jay the best and thank him for all these years working with…

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Predators vs. Victims

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | March 11th, 2020

…photo by Sabrina HornungThis Is How We Stop The Trumplicans’s Predatory CapitalismIn Gallup’s large Midterm Election Benchmark Poll conducted between October 15-28 of 2018, Republican and Democratic registered voters were asked to identify “Extremely/Very Important ‘’ political issues. The polled picked the following top six issues in this order: Healthcare-80%,…

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A Prisoner of Paper

by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | February 26th, 2020

…One Day In The Life Of A News JunkieA column or two ago I used Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel “One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich” to paint a picture of Stalin’s reign of terror in the 1940s. He served an eight-year sentence in the slave-labor gulags across Russia for…

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25 years…where do I begin?

by HPR Staff | Culture | September 4th, 2019

…By Raul Gomez, Publisherraul@hpr1.comI have come to think of the High Plains Reader, not as an extension of John Strand or myself, but as its own living breathing entity that wants and feeds and strives for its own personal fulfillment. And sometimes when I look back at where it started,…

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​The Main Guys

by Tom Bixby | Culture | September 4th, 2019

…Gadfly, Ed Raymond. Without our writers, we might still exist but we’d be going through the motions. We wouldn’t be HPR and we wouldn’t deserve our Reader readers, the most important main guys.

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Happy 25th Birthday, HPR

by John Strand | Editorial | September 4th, 2019

…Gadfly, and Greg Carlson, film critic. Some of our writers are no longer alive, yet their legacy lives on in HPR’s pages over the years: Christopher P. Jacobs, long-time movies editor from Grand Forks; Bill Cosgrove, theatre reviewer; Janie Barnstuble, columnist; Annie Krapu, journalist; Mike Mahlum, Music writer; Lynn Gifford,…

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