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…...
Schmid: Looking Back From the Left Coast
Friday, April 13, 2012
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…...
Saturday, January 28, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 27, 2012
1. OIL PATCH Production records fell nearly every month. ND became the No. 4 oil production state in 2011 expecting to bump California and become No. 3 in 2012…...
Friday, January 20, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 20, 2012
“Arrive a guest. Leave a Legend” -- This puzzling phrase is the new slogan of ND’s tourism department, which doubled down by placing the slogan on Facebook along with a…...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 16, 2012
The Three Affiliated Tribes at Ft. Berthold have a cozy, symbiotic relationship with Eloise Ogden, Regional Editor for the Minot Daily News. The tribes grant her interviews -- she writes…...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 12, 2012
Grassy Butte is a wide spot on U.S. 85 near the northern Badlands. A resident sent a letter to ND newspapers. The letter included selective emotions and perceptions about the…...
Monday, January 02, 2012
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JANUARY 2, 2012
Has any Minnesota Viking ever had so many nicknames? Saucer, Sausage, Kleinsausage, Cup ‘N Saucer, Klanksauser, Big Jim K, Jimmy K and on it goes. Carrington and UND standout, Jim…...
Monday, December 26, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 23, 2011
It's a very merry Christmas for the parents of 11-year-old Cierra McMahen of Bismarck. She passed out and was choking to death from a piece of hard candy stuck in…...
Monday, December 19, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 18, 2011
Pretend, for just a moment, you are crossing the snow-covered ND prairie on a dark, cold and silent December night. As you approach a Canadian Pacific railroad crossing, you hear…...
Monday, December 12, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 12, 2011
How do you know when Nodaks are no longer suffering the rigors of prairie pioneer life? When they obsess whether they have the “winter blues” or “SAD” (seasonal affective…...
Monday, December 05, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: DECEMBER 5, 2011
The Jamestown economy has taken a blow and Minnesota’s second-largest electric utility is sitting on a $437 million problem. Great River Energy is a wholesale cooperative owned by 28 electric…...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 25, 2011
“Jerry, Are you crying?” is the punch line in a State Farm Insurance commercial. The speaker is a perky agent named Jessica. Jerry is a hapless driver standing by his…...
Friday, November 11, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: NOVEMBER 11, 2011
“I think it’s good we continue to out-perform the nation.” This was Paula Iler, NAEP coordinator for ND, crowing about the 2011 performance of state fourth and eighth-graders on standard…...
Friday, October 28, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: OCTOBER 28, 2011
Quote without comment: “This is the most exposure the World’s Largest Buffalo has received since it was renovated by Hampton Hotels.” Jamestown was thrilled when a national television crew filmed…...
Friday, October 21, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: OCTOBER 21, 2011
ND is the No. 4 state in oil production. Lynn Helms, the director of ND’s Department of Mineral Resources, says ND production will pass that of California in the second…...
Monday, October 17, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: OCTOBER 17, 2011
A 310-acre cornfield, six combines and grain-hauling semis -- a typical ND harvest scene. Not this time. SWAT teams were riding the combines. The equipment was there to harvest an…...
Friday, October 07, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: OCTOBER 1, 2011
“The show must go on” -- Norsk Hstfest Association president Chester Reiten. The show will go on, but one senses it will be significantly diminished. Reiten, who is the founder…...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
“But there is no such way” -- according to Tom Dennis of the GF Herald the Fighting Sioux name can’t be redeemed. That was after saying that a supermajority of…...
Monday, September 05, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
Devils Lake officials described everyday life in a flood zone. The superintendent of schools blamed an enrollment drop on the rising lake and the resulting lack of economic growth. He…...
Monday, August 29, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: AUGUST 28, 2011
The Fighting Sioux image is called one of the most attractive logos in American sports. Bennett Brien, a member of the Turtle Mt. Chippewa and creator of the emblem, said,…...
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