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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,…
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,…
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…
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%,…
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…
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,…
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.
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,…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | August 14th, 2019
…gadfly. His theme in his latest interview is that the United States is a “Third Country” mess because it’s involved in seemingly endless wars, has millions of people in economic despair, has a rising mortality rate that is worse than many third world countries, and has absolutely out-of-control gun violence.…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | September 26th, 2018
…gadfly” Paul Weyrich (way-rich!!!) told a group of conservative “Christians” that every person should not be allowed to vote. Weyrich then organized the conservative Heritage Foundation (now funded by the very rich Koch brothers at about $30 billion each!)) from tens of millions of dollars contributed by the One Percent…