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by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | May 22nd, 2019
…It’s that time of year again. Recent grads are unleashed and set out to make their mark on the world. It’s funny how something can be simultaneously liberating and terrifying. If we could spread any pearls of wisdom to these young adults, we’d tell them the world is your oyster.…
by Sabrina Hornung | Writer's Block | May 22nd, 2019
…With the Dakota Cowboy Gathering in Medora starting up in full swing next weekend we decided to reach out to Meg Glaser, the Artistic Director of the Western Folklife Center in Elko Nevada. The Western Folklife Center is a cultural center that is dedicated to preserving the history and culture…
by Sabrina Hornung | Writer's Block | May 22nd, 2019
…“My dad always sung cowboy ballads as we were out riding and pitching hay and we grew up with that sort of thing. I started writing songs but didn’t know nothin’ about music so they came out as poems—which is the same thing—that’s the tradition.” Says Bill Lowman, cowboy…
by Sabrina Hornung | All About Food | May 15th, 2019
…Quiche is a great addition to any brunch. It’s almost like a wardrobe staple that you can dress up or dress down. I made one for my 90-year-old grandma for mother’s day last weekend. She’s a good critic when I try out a new recipe because she will tell me…
by C.S. Hagen | News | April 17th, 2019
…Former Medina Police Chief Darrell Graf was 23 years old when Gordon Wendell Kahl and his posse-men killed two and wounded three lawmen along rural Highway 30 outside of Medina. Kahl’s son Yorie was also severely wounded during the shootout, and is currently in prison.Graf attended Dr. Clarence Martin’s Constitution…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 3rd, 2019
…Are Modern Religions Straying Away From God?When Christians were challenging the teaching of the “new” science of evolution in the 1925 Scopes trial, the hymn that probably best described the position of most Christians contained the following lines: “Give me that old time religion, it’s good enough for me. Makes…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | April 3rd, 2019
…“(My) Father always had regarded making money as of secondary importance compared to moral values and one’s usefulness to the community.” – Bernard Baruch“Take no credit, give everything to a foundation, and don’t even let the foundation bear your name.” – Harold Schafer/Larry Woiwode“Medora’s Rough Riders Hotel appears to be…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | April 3rd, 2019
…As you drive the stretch of Highway 49 between Glen Ullin and Elgin, you’ll experience a variety of land features. You’ll see rolling hills, open fields, and great expanses of pasture land surrounded by barbed wire fences and curious cattle. Glorious buttes and cut banks of the area surround and…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | March 21st, 2019
…“North Dakota Nice,” is a phrase that I see getting tossed around more and more these days. Many are sincere and others display yet another facet of our disposition that’s not nearly as desirable. Yes, we’re professin’ our passive aggression. Say what you will but North Dakotans are good people.…
by C.S. Hagen | News | February 27th, 2019
…BISMARCK – In the most collective state in the union socialism is a dirty word, and top elected politicians are already using “Wolverine”-style fear tactics to rally the far-right troops two years before the 2020 Presidential election. Many say the McCarthyism, or “McCarthywasm,” a moniker once offered by Republican President…