SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MARCH 5, 2010
Score: Bats 2, McClean County 0. A second McClean County employee has been diagnosed with a serious illness believed to be caused by bat droppings at the courthouse in Washburn. …...
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Monday, March 01, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Sports Illustrated calls the Lamoureux hockey family in Grand Forks “perhaps the most remarkable sporting clan in the United States.” The family was the lead story in a recent SI…...
Friday, February 19, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: FEBRUARY 19, 2010
The Economist magazine warned Democrats of The Quirks of ND. It noted that while ND has only 0.2% of America’s population, it still gets two senators. The Economist concluded, “Senate machinations…...
Friday, February 12, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: FEBRUARY 12, 2010
Sometimes, success is keeping your head above water when others are drowning. The Associated Press issues an Economic Stress Index for U.S. counties with populations over 25,000. Its December index…...
Friday, January 29, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 29, 2010
“I know nothing -- NOTHING!” -- the bumbling Sergeant Schultz used the catch phrase on TV’s Hogan’s Heroes. Former NDSU President Joseph Chapman sounded like Schultz when asked about his…...
Monday, January 25, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 22, 2010
Carrington native Jim Kleinsasser played in a NFC Championship game 11 years ago in January 2001 . . . and it was humiliating, the Vikings lost to the NY Giants 41-0. Jimmy…...
Friday, January 15, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 15, 2010
There was little surprise left when Gov. John Hoeven announced his intention to run for the U.S. senate seat being vacated by Sen. Byron Dorgan. The Forum reported that despite…...
Friday, January 08, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 8, 2010
A tired, haggard SEN. BYRON DORGAN was pictured on the front page of the Minot Daily News. It said it all -- after 40 years in public life and facing…...
Monday, January 04, 2010
SCHMID’S TOP TEN NORTH DAKOTA STORIES OF 2009
1. THE ECONOMY -- HOW GOOD? It’s too early to make precise comparisons, but in some ways 2009 may have been as good a year as the state’s banner 2008. …...
Saturday, January 02, 2010
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 1, 2010
THE GREAT 2009 CHRISTMAS SNOWSTORM hit ND and closed the interstate system and other major routes. Although the state took the blizzard in stride, it was one of the heaviest…...
Monday, December 28, 2009
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 26, 2009
Just when it seemed the whole UND Fighting Sioux nickname matter could not become more bizarre -- it has. Members of the SPIRIT LAKE TRIBE sued the Board of Higher…...
Monday, December 21, 2009
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 20, 2009
SPEND LESS, SPEND WISELY. A Bismarck Tribune editorial on Dec. 13 was uncharacteristically frank and aimed directly at Sen’s Conrad and Dorgan and Rep. Pomeroy. The Trib said debt “has…...
Friday, December 11, 2009
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 11, 2009
The UND “Fighting Sioux” nickname issue has many moving parts: state courts, NCAA, Sioux tribes, Board of Higher Education, colleges, and, not least of all, editorial writers. All the parts…...
Saturday, December 05, 2009
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 4, 2009
Forbes is just hanging on -- its school closed in 1987. The town of 50 is perched on the South Dakota border in east central ND. Like many of…...
Friday, November 27, 2009
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 27, 2009
"Look, we're going to build a world-class company, and we're going to build it with Class B kids" -- Doug Burgum. The quote deserves interpretation: Burgum (53), the former CEO…...
Monday, November 23, 2009
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 20, 2009
A Forum article summarized the views of U.S. senators from ND and Minnesota on health care reform. All four senators expressed a solemn interest in cost containment, although at the…...
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