SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MAY 12, 2011
It’s May -- time for ND flooding worries to abate. Oops, maybe not. Montana has unmelted snow which was about 140 percent of normal in mid-May. The National Weather Service…...
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SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MAY 9, 2011
Near the conclusion of the ND Legislature’s 78-day session, Sen. Dave Nething of Jamestown, the state's longest serving senator, gave a stirring speech to lawmakers. He said he tries to…...
Monday, May 02, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MAY 5, 2011
“Nothing new at this point” -- Minot Police commenting on the three-month old, unsolved quadruple murder of an American Indian family. A Somalian national with a history of violent crimes…...
Friday, April 22, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: APRIL 22, 2011
Should the BNSF tracks between Devils Lake and Rugby be repaired with public money to accommodate Amtrak service to those towns and Grand Forks? Check the numbers -- only 15-20…...
Friday, April 08, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: APRIL 8, 2011
Sen. Bill Langer was one of ND’s most controversial politicians -- he acted on the belief that bad publicity was better than none. Fargo seems to have gone the same…...
Friday, April 01, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: APRIL 1, 2011
By Jove, I think she’s got it!” -- Prof. Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) expresses surprise and delight in the movie “My Fair Lady” when Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) finally overcomes…...
Monday, March 28, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MARCH 28, 2011
How quickly fortunes can go from sour to sweet (and vice versa). In February, Carrington was reviled because its high school wrestling team abused a raccoon. There were threats to…...
Friday, March 18, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MARCH 18, 2011
The 2010 census data for ND highlights changes since the 2000 census. Keep in mind that was a decade in which the state’s population started at 642,200, dipped, then rebounded to…...
Monday, March 14, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MARCH 12, 2011
Yes, it really happened: Williams and Ree are a comedy team performing under the name “the Indian and the White Guy.” Terry Ree is a member of a Sioux tribe…...
Monday, March 07, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MARCH 7, 2011
You’ve seen it many times on TV -- a sports team wins a championship and, immediately, bags of championship caps are ready for the celebration. The GF Herald posed a…...
Monday, February 28, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Wayne Sanstead is ND superintendent of public instruction, but apparently not a reader of these pages. As noted here earlier, ND students had an average score of 162 on national…...
Thursday, February 24, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Suppose, in 2004, a federal court stated control of narcotics in a Minot hospital was so bad that “To do nothing . . . would be a tragedy.” Suppose further…...
Friday, February 11, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: FEBRUARY 11, 2011
Parshall is a town of about 1,000 on the northern fringe of the Ft. Berthold Reservation -- its population is almost evenly divided between Indians and whites. Prior to the…...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: FEBRUARY 8, 2011
No suspects; no motive. Minot police are investigating four related shooting murders: Jolene Zephier (38), daughter Sabrina (19), son Dylan (13), and Jolene’s boyfriend Jeremy Longie (22). Information emerges slowly in a…...
Friday, January 28, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 28, 2011
Estimates of spring flooding were raised for the majority of the state. Those for Devils Lake were particularly grim. The National Weather Service spring flood outlook for Devils Lake shows…...
Monday, January 24, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 22, 2011
“These two servants of God serve the people of Olivet Lutheran very well, yet have made mistakes of a painfully public nature.” -- Bishop Bill Rindy of the E. ND…...
Monday, January 17, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 15, 2011
Are Red River Valley winters especially harsh, or are residents just complainers? The Forum set out to score the question considering matters such as coldness, wind, and snow. Their answer…...
Monday, January 10, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 9, 2011
“Our investigation found a chronic state of crisis at the Indian Health Service’s Aberdeen Area.” -- Sen. Byron Dorgan, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. He added, “It…...
Monday, January 03, 2011
SCHMID - TOP TEN NORTH DAKOTA STORIES OF 2010
BRENT MACCARTHY: NEVER FORGET WHO THE DEMOCRATS REALLY ARE TOP TEN NORTH DAKOTA STORIES OF 2010 1. OIL, OIL, OIL In the absence of oil, North Dakota…...
Friday, December 31, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 31, 2010
When the National Weather Service presented its December flood outlook for the Red River Basin, it cautioned there is much winter remaining. Having said that, the NWS believes Fargo-Moorhead faces…...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 27, 2010
For years ND obsessed over its stagnant population. Wild proposals evolved to deal with the perceived problem, such as paying students to stay in the state, or luring more refugees. …...
Thursday, December 16, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 17, 2010
In almost every state, budgets are a grim matter -- projects are delayed, employees layed off, benefits and salaries reduced. Cut to ND, it’s a different picture -- the proposed…...
Monday, December 13, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 13, 2010
There is a ND economic indicator we might call “the pickup index.” For small town and rural Nodaks, not having a pickup is almost unthinkable. When times are good, you…...
Monday, December 06, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 6, 2010
Rugby is the center of North America. That brings some disadvantages you won't hear from the ND Tourist Bureau. Daryl Ritchison, Forum companies meteorologist, says the state's location in the…...
Monday, November 29, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 26, 2010
Author John Steinbeck was disappointed with Fargo when he visited in 1960 -- he hoped to discover a great mysterious place, instead he found it rather ordinary. He drove out…...
Monday, November 22, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 21, 2010
The chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee will be vacant -- incumbent Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas lost her re-election. The Hill political blog reports ND Sen. Kent Conrad, chairman of…...
Sunday, November 14, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 14, 2010
Dallas Schmidt stands 6 feet and is a barrel-chested 260 pounds. The Cooperstown cowboy won a top ten finish in a national quarter horse competition in Columbus, Ohio. But that’s…...
Friday, November 05, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 5, 2010
No more “Three Amigos” or “Team North Dakota” -- Gov. John Hoeven becomes the first Republican senator from ND in 24 years and Rick Berg replaces U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy…...
Monday, November 01, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: OCTOBER 29, 2010
“Leasing in Burke and Renville counties (on the Saskatchewan border) is funded by Chinese money through a London corporation.” Should we call the FBI -- sounds very suspicious? Maybe not,…...
Saturday, October 23, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: OCTOBER 24, 2010
Who is Jack Dalrymple? You are about to find out. He is the ND lieutenant governor and will be the next governor, if Governor John Hoeven is elected to the…...
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