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by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | December 5th, 2018
…What Is The Fastest Growing Religion?Recent surveys by the Pew Research Center and the Hartford Institute for Religious Research indicate that one in four Americans do not belong to any religion. In fact, the largest “religious” group in the United States now is made up of ex-Catholics. At last count,…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | November 14th, 2018
…It’s that time of the year when we’ve finally finished up our Halloween candy and started to deck the halls… but who’s rushing the season when it’s the season of the holiday rush? Here at HPR we’ve had shopping and holiday menus on the brain for the past couple weeks…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | November 7th, 2018
…On Monday Dan Larson, a film student from Montana State University in Bozeman, swung by the office for an interview. This time I was on the other side of the questioning. Larson is currently working on a documentary about the geographical center of North America and the communities that have…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | September 12th, 2018
…Sabrina HornungI had a little bit of gravel-road therapy this weekend, found myself cruising rural Burleigh County and made a pit stop at Lake Mitchell. I contemplated dipping my toes in the water but like a good central Dakotan I just walked along the lake’s edge and around the nearby…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | August 29th, 2018
…There was one quote that really resonated within me in this week’s issue of High Plains Reader and it was part of C.S. Hagen’s “Voting Methods” story. Jed Limke, the man behind the Approval Voting Army said,“...in recent years a certain apathy has seemed to hover over local elections with…
by Sabrina Hornung | News | August 22nd, 2018
…Sabrina HornungThe Midwest Shrine Association held their annual conference in Deadwood South Dakota last weekend. A total of 14 Shrine chapters were represented hailing from Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. El Zagal and Kem shrines were in attendance proudly representing their North Dakota chapters. Attendance…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | August 15th, 2018
…On August 14, The Bismarck Tribune reported that “A popular insecticide could be banned for agricultural use.” Popular as it may be I can think of a whole slew of adjectives that would be more appropriate like questionable, deadly, poisonous… after all it is a neurotoxic pesticide.According to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, neurotoxic pesticides…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | August 15th, 2018
…It may be cliche to say the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, but when wet plate artist Shane Balkowitsch found out that his 15-year-old daughter Abby Balkowitsch was following in his photography footsteps, he was thrilled.“I can remember the day, on May 24th of this year, I…
by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | August 9th, 2018
…You may or may not have heard about Robinson, North Dakota… referred to by some as the “Paradise City,” a bounding oasis in beautiful pothole slough country nestled in the lush prairies of Kidder County and located on scenic Highway 36. Known best as a hunter’s or birder’s paradise, the…
by Sabrina Hornung | Culture | August 1st, 2018
…Thingvalla Cemetery can be found in rural Pembina County, just a couple miles outside of the small town of Mountain. The most prominent landmark is a large monument dedicated to K.N. Julius, an Icelandic poet known for his great wit, satire, and drinking ballads. Behind the monument is an American…