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by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | December 13th, 2017
…According to a New York Times article titled: “Tinder, the Fast-Growing Dating App, Taps an Age-Old Truth,” close to 50 million people use Tinder. On average they spend 90 minutes a day assessing their matches. Men are three times more likely (46%) than women (11%) to swipe right which is…
by Jim Fuglie | Writer's Block | November 29th, 2017
…John Bluemle’s new book, “North Dakota’s Geologic Legacy” (actually published in 2016 and now in its second printing), is the culmination of a career of more than 40 years he spent with the North Dakota Geological Survey, researching all facets of North Dakota’s geology, and carrying the title of State…
by Jim Fuglie | Last Word | September 13th, 2017
…William Prentice, the slickster CEO of Meridian Energy, which wants to build an oil refinery 2 ½ miles from Theodore Roosevelt National Park, blew a bunch of smoke up the ass of a young reporter for The Dickinson Press the other day, and the kid, who’s actually a pretty good…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | August 16th, 2017
…Our opinion: We all breathe the same air, and we all drank the same beer.Last weekend I helped a pal plan a small festival in an even smaller town. In fact, you may find me bartending there once in a blue moon, flexing my extensive knowledge of cheap beer and…
by HPR Contributor | Editorial | June 28th, 2017
…By Robert Reederrobertreeder@me.com I am back in Oslo after living and working here for a month last summer. Nearly two full weeks passed this year before I noticed that I was going places without a map, getting on and off of metros without paying much attention to the signs indicating…
by HPR Contributor | Editorial | September 23rd, 2016
…By Tom Bixby tom@hpr1.comWe went online and looked at the rules and policies of 40 Days for Life, the largest anti-choice organization. They don’t look unreasonable: no violence, cooperation with the police, no physical contact with clinic escorts or staff. It looks like they would be well-behaved, that the worst…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | July 20th, 2016
…As clichéd as it is to say that you learn something new everyday, it always seems to hold true, though some things have a lot more intellectual value than others. This week the High Plains Reader had the privilege of interviewing Mud Morganfield, bluesman and son of blues legend Muddy…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | July 6th, 2016
…It’s been about a week since we returned from Norway. The experience itself was life changing. While Raul and I were there for ten days, the students had a month to immerse themselves in the culture of Oslo and dig their fingers deep into the underground dirt of what makes…
by Sabrina Hornung | Arts | December 2nd, 2015
…A rural community’s effort to save a cultural treasureThe Ellendale Opera House is a rare gem hidden two hours southwest of Fargo on the south-central North Dakota prairie. Built in 1909, it was the largest venue between Minneapolis and Seattle in its day, and it is one of the few…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | October 30th, 2015
…Bachelor Bishops And Misogynistic Muslim Clerics Conjure Up A Sex And Marriage ManualPope Francis and his cardinals and bishops have concluded a Vatican synod on whether the Roman Catholic Church should modify teachings regarding sex and marriage while their religious cousins, the Muslim Taliban, are busy treating women as chattel…