All K-12 Students Benefit from Consistent Policies to Improve AI Education and Discipline
In my last article, I shared information pertaining to three executive orders issued by Mr. Donald J. Trump: EO 14242 – Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities, EO 14191 – Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families, and EO 14190 – Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. Here are two additional orders […]
You Have To Stop
It was an early morning, just after 6 AM and I was in Downtown Minot picking up something at my office on the corner of Burdick and Main. The wind hadn’t come up quite yet, so the smoke that was predicted had not filled the early morning sky.I stopped for a moment and just took […]
Shopping at the Bay
If you live along the northern tier of North Dakota, there’s a pretty good chance you have visited Winnipeg sometime in your life. If you live in northeastern North Dakota, there’s a pretty good chance you have shopped at The Bay.Called “The Bay” for a number of years to be more modern, it’s actually the […]
Executive Orders on Education and Medora On the Map
A number of directives have been issued by the President of our United States, Mr. Donald J. Trump. An executive order is one such directive. It must be within the President’s constitutional authority and cannot violate existing federal laws. In fact, the courts can overturn any executive order. However, it is important that we are […]
North Dakota Nice-You Can’t Help It
Best Kept SecretsMinot State University will start this season with the classic theatrical presentation of Nunsense, followed by Fiddler on the Roof. Here is the complete schedule for season 60 for the MSU Summer Theater. It may be a best kept secret for the quality of the talent in the shows but sometimes shows sell […]
What I Didn’t Expect to Love About Minot
No matter how open-minded I try to be, it seems that I inevitably enter a new situation carrying an armful of presuppositions. The latest example of this being that our summer vacation plans have changed last minute. Instead of my meticulously planned trip to the Wisconsin Dells, we’ll be spending a few days in a […]
The lingering effects of Agent Orange
It’s nearly impossible to get precise numbers of people who were either exposed to Agent Orange, or who have had complications because a parent was exposed to it.What we do know is that North Dakota has approximately 15,000 Vietnam veterans and roughy 65 percent of them are receiving compensation after being exposed to the defoliant […]
What Are You Doing This Summer
Fresh from a trip to West Fargo to help celebrate the last day of school for my grandkids, my head was spinning with the number of activities that were planned for the summer. I thought I had a grasp on my granddaughters’ schedule as she is into dance and will be doing a couple of […]
A Dick Tracy story and a 1945 homicide
We briefly touched on the story of Margaret Roeszler last week, a woman of 42 years old who was shot dead in her Jamestown beauty salon on Sept. 19 1945. Roeszler, whose body is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Ashley, was known as a good neighbor, someone who would always help out a friend […]
We’re Remembering Our Heroes
My wife opened the door at CashWise foods and deposited her Saturday morning grocery purchase in the car, and asked “there are a couple of ladies in their selling poppies, should I go back and get some?” My answer was “of course” and then my mind slipped back to my young kid days when two […]
