SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 6, 2014
“I think he's been the most important journalist in North Dakota in the past half-century”-- One of many tributes to Mike Jacobs retiring as publisher after a 35-year career with…...
Schmid: Looking Back From the Left Coast
Monday, April 07, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 25, 2014
Well, what do you know! ND has two teams in the NCAA Division 1 basketball tournaments. The NDSU men won their first game with a 80-75 overtime upset of…...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 16, 2014
Bell State Bank in Fargo is closing accounts of customers that transfer money to Somalia. The change is a result of stricter federal regulations. The bank was used by ND…...
Saturday, March 01, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 1, 2014
“The sun will shine brightest on North Dakota” -- The lead-in to a Federal Reserve discussion of the 2014 economic outlook for the Minneapolis District. Brisk employment, high wages and…...
Friday, February 21, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 21, 2014
Five brothers and sisters born in ND are the subject of a bizarre national story with a happy ending. The siblings were separately adopted as infants over 50 years ago…...
Sunday, February 16, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 17, 2014
The Grand Forks Lamoureux twins were UND hockey players who starred at the last winter olympics in Vancouver. The sisters are again on Team USA and more popular than ever.…...
Monday, February 10, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 10, 2014
Happy 125th Birthday! ND became a state in February 1889, along with SD, Montana and Washington. What a deal! The federal government through Essential Air Service will pay about $10,000…...
Monday, February 03, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 3, 2013
Is it ND “nice” or “ice?” A Fargo man has written “Close Encounters of the Fargo Kind,” anecdotes about anonymous acts of kindness. His thesis is that ND has a…...
Friday, January 24, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 24, 2014
A correspondent for The Weather Channel minced no words about Fargo: “These were the worst conditions I’ve ever set up in.” He was filming a ground blizzard. The flat terrain,…...
Friday, January 17, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 18, 2014
Yes, a model of rational thought. Take a moment to read the letter from ND State Treasurer Kelly Schmidt in the January 16th online GF Herald. The State Historical Board…...
Friday, January 10, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 10, 2014
Minot police were called to rescue a cat frozen to a rock. Yes, it was cold, really cold. But a Forum editorial said c’mon folks, this is nothing new. The…...
Friday, January 03, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 3, 2014
Grand Forks was awarded a long-sought designation as one of the FAA’s six unmanned aerial systems (UAS) test sites. Five other states were also designated; 24 applied. The site will…...
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
SCHMID: SCHMID’S TEN BIGGEST NORTH DAKOTA STORIES OF 2013
1. THE LUCKIEST PLACE ON EARTH That was the title of a February New York Times Magazine cover story about North Dakota followed a month later by a National…...
Monday, December 30, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 29, 2013
The ND economy has been blazing hot for several years. Expect some cooling in 2014 as commodity prices head south. The director of the Department of Mineral Resources sees “an…...
Thursday, December 26, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 26, 2013
Expect ND oil exploration and production to remain strong in 2014. In September, the state had daily production of 931,000 barrels from 9,700 wells. Another 2,000 wells may be drilled…...
Friday, December 13, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 13, 2013
Why would he do a thing like that? Craig Bohl, coach of the undefeated NDSU football team, will move to the University of Wyoming where his salary is estimated to…...
Sunday, December 01, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 1, 2013
Whoopee! Financial news website Wall Street 24/7 again ranked ND the best-run state because of its low unemployment, economic growth, budget surplus, etc. Neighbors did well too: Wyoming was #2,…...
Saturday, November 16, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - NOVEMBER 16, 2013
Is ND government spending essential or extravagant? In a little over a decade, the state’s budget has tripled from $4.7 billion to $13.7 billion. The state’s general fund spending during…...
Saturday, November 02, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - NOVEMBER 2, 2013
Some ND editors can’t help themselves -- an editorial in the Bismarck Tribune was captioned “N.D. numbers for science remarkable.” The Trib was referring to the performance of ND students…...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - OCTOBER 23, 2013
“It has never been so cool to be from North Dakota.” -- A quote from U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer. Tom Dennis of the GF Herald said, “That’s certainly true in…...
Monday, October 21, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - OCTOBER 21, 2013
. . . farmers are growing old; Farm operation and ownership are separating; drug conspiracy on the Ft. Berthold Reservation; Kalcie Eagle, 21, was solely responsible; the loss of 21,000…...
Friday, October 11, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - OCTOBER 11, 2013
The stars were aligned in 2012 -- crops were good, prices were high and interest rates were low. A NDSU report indicates the 500 farms it studies may have had…...
Friday, September 27, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
The Minnesota Somali are in the news, again. The Christian Science Monitor identified two men from the Twin Cities involved in the terrorist attack on the Kenyan shopping mall. The…...
Monday, September 23, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Tomorrow, ESPN’s three-hour College GameDay show will be hosted by NDSU in Fargo. NDSU’s athletic director modestly stated: “It’s huge, probably the biggest thing that ever happened to Fargo .…...
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Tomorrow, ESPN’s three-hour College GameDay show will be hosted by NDSU in Fargo. NDSU’s athletic director modestly stated: “It’s huge, probably the biggest thing that ever happened to Fargo .…...
Friday, September 13, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
It would be the state’s tallest building and largest office tower -- 100 feet taller than the ND Capitol. That’s Doug Burgum’s proposed $125 million “Dakota Place” on Broadway in…...
Saturday, September 07, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - SEPTEMBER 7, 2013
Today, the ND Board of Higher Education will interview six men who are finalists for the job of interim chancellor of the ND University System. Three of the men are…...
Saturday, August 31, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 31, 2013
Tempest in a teapot? A wild-eyed man wants to take over the ND town of Leith (pop 19), become mayor and rename the town Cobbsville. It’s said that white supremacist…...
Sunday, August 25, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 26-2013
In recent years ND educators and media smugly reported that the state’s students performed well above the national average. Over the same period I have argued the view is delusional…...
Saturday, August 17, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 16, 2013
“State coffers are overflowing” into “a quirky, idiosyncratic system for allocation.” -- Quotes from the “fedgazette,” a newspaper of the Federal Reserve in Minneapolis. The July issue is largely devoted…...
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