PCS Survival for Coming and Going
A few weeks ago, I casually used the term “PCS season” on social media. Not long after, a message landed in my inbox:“When I heard you say ‘PCS season,’ I thought you meant ‘Pollen and Construction Season.’ It took me a minute to realize you were using a military term.” We both had a good […]
Are we tornado alley?
Because the month of June tends to bring us the most rainfall, along with that comes unstable and sometimes violent weather in the form of hurricane-force winds and tornadoes.While states like Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska get more tornadoes historically than North Dakota, we get plenty of them in any given year. Tornadoes are labeled in […]
Call Anytime…
It was a normal Thursday evening with not a whole lot on the schedule. OK, I’ll revise that statement a bit. There is always something on the schedule to be done, but not a whole lot more was going to get accomplished, in fact we were looking forward to going out to supper with […]
North Dakota is a Homeschool Hot Spot
Homeschool or a “program of education supervised by a child’s parent” was legalized in North Dakota in 1989. Since then, many legislative updates have occurred which enabled inclusivity, such as permission to homeschool developmentally disabled children and student participation in public school extracurricular activities. Now, Minot AFB has approximately 116 military-connected K-12th grade homeschoolers and […]
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 […]