Republicans from Districts 12 and 29 gathered tonight for a Lincoln Day dinner and fundraising auction. And as fate would have it, guess who the keynote speaker was? None other than North Dakota’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Kirsten Baesler. As [read more…]
Just over three weeks ago, North Dakota’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) Superintendent, Kirsten Baesler, announced her intentions to seek reelection. Having first been elected in 2012 by a margin of nearly 11%, and then again in 2016 by about [read more…]
When Doug Burgum announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for governor in January of 2016, he was viewed as a political outsider. To many, the idea of the software executive and downtown businessman from Fargo beating his opponent [read more…]
Back in June of 2019, I wrote about the oldest pro-life organization in the state, North Dakota Right to Life (NDRL), and its current Executive Director Medora Nagle. Ms. Nagle had posted a remark on Facebook about swerving to hit [read more…]
Earlier this month, I wrote about Emmons County becoming the first county in North Dakota to pass a Second Amendment Sanctuary Resolution. To be technically accurate, they amended out the word “Sanctuary” and substituted it with “Advocate”. But the remaining [read more…]
Last week, we published an article about a proposal being pulled to put a mural in downtown Bismarck of 17-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. Local wet plate artist Shane Balkowitsch had submitted the idea to the Renaissance Zone Authority. The [read more…]
Update: In the aftermath of this article, it appears that many readers did not fully comprehend what was written. The purpose of the article was to illustrate the irony/hypocrisy of the artist. On the one hand, he implies through his [read more…]
Yesterday, I wrote about a proposal being pulled to put a mural in downtown Bismarck of 17-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. Local wet plate artist Shane Balkowitsch had submitted the idea to the Renaissance Zone Authority. The mural would have [read more…]
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is getting her own documentary with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). I’m guessing you probably didn’t know that. Or, at the very least, perhaps you don’t even care. Most North Dakotan’s likely don’t. But what [read more…]
In January of 2018, Governor Doug Burgum was in attendance at the State Capitol with directors of the state Department of Transportation, the Highway Patrol, and the Health Department to unveil a new traffic safety initiative known as “Vision Zero“. [read more…]
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