SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 12, 2013
“History has left tribes with a ‘huge mess’ that won’t be fixed with federal money. If we wait for a solution to come from Washington, we will lose another generation…...
Schmid: Looking Back From the Left Coast
Monday, August 12, 2013
Monday, August 05, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - AUGUST 5, 2013
The New York Times discussed a new study which is the most detailed portrait yet of multi-decade income mobility in the U.S. The article is accompanied by a color-coded map…...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JULY 29, 2013
By the numbers. What is this progression: 126-144-172-256? It’s the number of drug indictments in ND from 2009 through 2012 -- there were already 205 indictments in the first six…...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JULY 24, 2013
“I would like to thank our good friends in South Dakota for this very generous gift to North Dakota!” -- Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem’s response to a AAA mailer for…...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JULY 16, 2013
“Government can’t fix all the problems we have here in the oil patch.” -- A letter in the Williston Herald from John Andrist, a prominent state senator, explaining that the…...
Monday, July 08, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JULY 8, 2013
The NAEP released its 2011 scores. The National Assessment of Educational Progress tests fourth and eighth graders every two years in reading and math. In ND, The great majority of…...
Monday, July 01, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JULY 1, 2013
“Our crystal ball was cloudy.” -- ND OMB Director Pam Sharp explaining why the state will have a 2011-13 biennium surplus of $1.7 billion, when she initially estimated $51 million.…...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JUNE 19, 2013
The person who doesn’t exist. Tribune columnist Clay Jenkinson is sorry to see Chancellor of Higher Education Hamid Shirvani leave his position (“found him really impressive”), although Jenkinson believes it…...
Monday, June 17, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST
Would you like to be one of the Top 20 highest-paid public employees in ND? If you do, don’t go to Bismarck -- go to Grand Forks where you will…...
Monday, June 10, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JUNE 10, 2013
A Trygve Olson cartoon in the Forum shows cowboy Hamid Shirvani riding west into the sunset. What the cartoon doesn’t show is that Shirvani has cash and other goodies in…...
Saturday, June 01, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 31, 2013
“There’s a perception by people in the state and elsewhere that we have sort of a Wild West going on out there, with massive amounts of violent crime.” -- Carol…...
Saturday, May 25, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 23, 2013
There is a new greeting for Minnesotans approaching ND on I-94. A billboard says “NORTH DAKOTA” and “OPEN FOR BUSINESS.” The Minnesota Legislature has just passed a new round of…...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 14, 2013
“North Dakota has emerged, quite unnoticed by the national media, as an undiscovered hotspot for science- and technology-based development.” -- From a report called “Enterprising States -- 2012,” which measures…...
Monday, May 06, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 6, 2013
The Forum papers in ND ran a joint editorial calling for the resignation of Hamid Shirvani, chancellor of higher education. The editorial concluded Shirvani’s future in ND is hopeless. While…...
Monday, April 29, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 29, 2013
“Everyone is forewarned.” -- A Bismarck Tribune editorial warned of 6,000 additional oil wells in the state in the next three years -- more than are currently producing. The Tribune…...
Monday, April 22, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 22, 2013
Last Monday, the headline in the print version of the Bismarck Tribune was “Blizzard brings North Dakota to a standstill.” Most subscribers didn’t see it -- delivery was suspended. …...
Thursday, April 18, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 18, 2013
The period from 2001 through 2010 was known as the “lost decade” in the domestic economy -- stock market and real estate values tumbled and jobs went nowhere. ND didn’t…...
Monday, April 08, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 8, 2013
It’s sobering -- for the fifth time in the last 6 years ND had the fastest personal income growth of all states. Since 2006, ND personal income has grown at…...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 2, 2013
“Fargo is too big and too important to North Dakota to live with its unsettling level of flood risk any longer.” -- An editorial in the GF Herald supporting flood…...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 27, 2013
Finally -- some balance! The New York Times and National Geographic articles about ND were accurate, but one-sided, mostly portraying negative aspects of the oil boom. The March Economist offers…...
Monday, March 18, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 16, 2013
Hamid Shirvani’s goose may be cooked . . . and it’s too bad. It’s hard to believe the chancellor of the ND University System will recover from the numerous allegations…...
Friday, March 08, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 8, 2013
The February New York Times article about the ND oil boom was a cleverly written hit piece that portrayed the state in a negative, unflattering light. The NYT didn’t use…...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 4, 2013
Last year, ND had a mild winter. This year, conditions snapped back to normal. The Minot Daily News published an article to reinforce, what some consider obvious, “that North Dakota…...
Friday, February 22, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 22, 2013
“A victim of collision on the open sea/Nobody ever said that life was free/Sank, swam, go down with the ship/But use your freedom of choice.” -- State Rep. Rick Becker…...
Sunday, February 17, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 18, 2013
“While the oil and gas boom in North Dakota’s west is very important to the state’s economy, the most reliable and steady economic growth – and subsequent opportunities for profitable…...
Saturday, February 09, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 8, 2013
The cover of last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine pictures a somewhat forlorn, oil-stained worker sitting on a barrel in a desolate landscape -- the ironic caption reads “The Luckiest…...
Saturday, February 02, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 2, 2013
The state of ND provided hundreds of millions in property tax relief in the past three years, but property owners are not feeling the love. Confusion reigns. A big part…...
Sunday, January 27, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 27, 2013
You’ve seen this before -- a reporter from an eastern paper pays a quick visit to ND and returns with a sensational article. John Eligon of the NY Times wrote…...
Sunday, January 20, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 19, 2013
"I feel like we're blazing a new trail and I'm sure there will be other bureaus that follow in the future." -- The director of the Minot Convention and Visitors…...
Saturday, January 12, 2013
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 12, 2013
“Today we are at an incredible moment in our state’s history, and we are ready to write the next great chapter.” -- Gov. Jack Dalrymple in his state of the…...
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