SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - OCTOBER 15, 2012
“Nice fantasy, but I think it would be better in Las Vegas than North Dakota.” -- Williston architect John Biggs commenting on a proposed $145 million pyramid near Williston. At…...
Schmid: Looking Back From the Left Coast
Monday, October 15, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - September 24, 2012
“Be calm and breathe.” -- Phil Jackson (67), Williston native, UND All-American, famed NBA coach and 1992 member of the ND Hall of Fame speaking at a seminar in Santa…...
Monday, September 17, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - September 17, 2012
For years, Jamestown has been fishing for a major tenant for the Spiritwood Energy Park and they have hooked a whale. The $1.2 billion Spiritwood Nitrogen Project will be the…...
Thursday, September 13, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - September 13, 2012
The British news magazine Economist has an article about ND and, for a change, it’s not about oil. The article calls the state conservative, elderly and rural. The magazine is…...
Thursday, August 30, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 30, 2012
“What’s most disturbing to me is that Spirit Lake seems to be a rudderless ship.” -- Sen. Kent Conrad commenting on the child care crisis at the reservation. “There is not a structure…...
Monday, August 27, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST
“What’s happening here in the Bakken . . . is quite special.” -- The president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. Narayana Kocherlakota said he and his staff visited Williston because their…...
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 27, 2012
“What’s happening here in the Bakken . . . is quite special.” -- The president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. Narayana Kocherlakota said he and his staff visited Williston because their…...
Friday, August 17, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 16, 2012
If I asked you about the Port of ND, you would probably return a blank stare. The port is an intermodal facility in Minot which transfers product and containers between…...
Monday, July 23, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JULY 23, 2012
Everywhere you look, there are signs ND is in a period of “headiness” -- superlatives bounce off the walls. In its 2013-15 budget, the Board of Higher Education proposed $700…...
Monday, July 16, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JULY 16. 2012
Dennis Johnson, the State’s Attorney for McKenzie County, said there is a distinct group of people arriving in ND that remind him of Cher’s song “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.” Believe…...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JUNE 22, 2012
The Fighting Sioux nickname controversy seems settled for the moment. While UND will be worse for the embarrassing way it handled the issue, life there will go on without much…...
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JUNE 14, 2012
Voters turned out in record numbers and sadly, reluctantly voted to allow UND to retire the Fighting Sioux nickname. As Tom Dennis of the GF Herald put it, “Neither UND…...
Thursday, June 07, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JUNE 6, 2012
The end could be near for the “Fighting Sioux” nickname -- “haters” may have their way. Earl Strinden, a former ND House majority leader and retired head of the UND…...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST
“Holy cow, I didn’t think it would happen this fast” -- Ron Ness, president of the ND Petroleum Council, expressing surprise when March ND oil production moved slightly past that…...
Friday, May 11, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 11, 2012
Remember the parable of the ant and the grasshopper? The ant worked hard laying up supplies for winter, while the grasshopper laughed and played the summer away. Then winter came…...
Saturday, May 05, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 5, 2012
Scam is in the air. In March, I mentioned an Iowa company’s plan to use an idle Grafton ethanol plan to turn sugar beets into fuel. The plan seemed sketchy…...
Monday, April 30, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 30, 2012
Last week, we had reason to think Minnesota attitudes towards ND were becoming kinder and gentler. How is that working out? Sorry, not so well, the meanies are at it…...
Friday, April 20, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 20, 2012
The Fargo Forum displays a mixture of envy and concern about ND’s oil boom. A Forum editorial said wise monkeys in the Oil Patch (“see no evil,” “hear no evil,”…...
Friday, April 13, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 13, 2012
“If there was a state program that was costing $185 million a year and only gave the money to lawyers and criminals, what would you do with it?” These are…...
Friday, April 06, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 6, 2012
The Bismarck Tribune obituary for Ann Grenstiner (88) is a shocker. Grenstiner had three sons: Dale, Don and Dean. The obituary said she was proud of Dale and Don. Dean…...
Saturday, March 31, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 31, 2012
A current Montana murder case has ND parallels. In 2003, Dru Sjodin was kidnapped in Grand Forks and her body was found in Minnesota. Her killer, Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., received…...
Friday, March 23, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 23, 2012
The ND Democratic convention is over and candidates are heading out to face Republicans who are riding a wave of prosperity. The Democrats will look for pockets of discontent --…...
Friday, March 16, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 16, 2012
A few years ago, I visited Dickinson and Williston. In each city, I discovered Applebee’s was easily the best restaurant. Let that sink in. So, in ensuing years it didn’t…...
Friday, March 09, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 9, 2012
“We’re still out of water, we’re still out of sewage capacity, we’re short of electricity and there’s no room on the highways for anyone else.” -- A Williams County…...
Friday, March 02, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 2, 2012
The decade ending in 2010 was one of economic progress in ND, unlike much of the country. Yet, the number of children living in economically distressed areas of the state…...
Friday, February 24, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 24, 2012
A fringe of academic and tribal radicals see the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo in ominous, abusive terms. But they are no longer near the center of the argument. At…...
Friday, February 17, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT CCOAST - FEBRUARY 17, 2012
A firing, resignations and a suicide are part of the turmoil sweeping Dickinson State University. An audit determined DSU was a “diploma factory” issuing degrees willy-nilly to Chinese students. According…...
Monday, February 13, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Sen. John Hoeven “picked the right issue” to take a leadership role in the Senate. At least that is what Tom Dennis at the GF Herald thinks about Hoeven’s bill…...
Friday, February 03, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 3, 2012
It’s a full court press. The ND governor’s office and Chamber of Commerce are laying out a program called 2020 & Beyond to build on the state’s success and visualize…...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 31, 2012
Oops! We forgot to file seven years of income tax returns and, oh yea, we forgot to pay our property taxes too. ND Rep. RaeAnn Kelsch of Mandan laid out…...
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