SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 26, 2020
SOME GOOD NEWS ND state revenues in April were down 14% from a 2019 legislative forecast, but general fund revenues for the first 10 months of the two-year budget cycle…...
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Monday, May 18, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 18, 2020
THE BEAN FARMER’S GUIDE to Social Distancing and Personal Freedom was the title of Terry Wanzek’s opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. Wanzek is a farmer near Jamestown and…...
Monday, May 11, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 11, 2020
THE DREADED NEWS ARRIVED Great River Energy, a Minnesota wholesale electric cooperative, made two decisions affecting ND. The most serious is the closing in 2022 of Coal Creek Station, a…...
Monday, May 04, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 4, 2020
AROUND THE REGION: ND’s per capita coronavirus cases would be relatively low if it were not for Cass and Grand Forks counties which account for over 70% of the…...
Monday, April 27, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 27, 2020
NO THUMP ON YOUR PORCH “We are seeing a rapid diminishment of printed daily newspapers in ND and the region.” — A statement made here two weeks ago. Little did…...
Friday, April 24, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 20, 2020
HERE’S A RUNDOWN of coronavirus cases in ND and the region this week — patterns begin to emerge: SOUTH DAKOTA GOV. KRISTI NOEM initially declared her state would not issue…...
Monday, April 20, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 10, 2020
NOT A SURPRISING DISCOVERY Deborah White, a professor of social statistics at Minnesota State in Moorhead, was startled to discover that ND has more coronavirus cases per capita than Minnesota.…...
Monday, April 06, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 6, 2020
COVID-19 The region around ND is having some success “flattening the curve” of coronavirus cases. While the large number of cases in Minnesota (742 as of April 2nd) receives the…...
Monday, March 30, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 30, 2020
NOBODY STANDS OUT ND and the three states on its border have coronavirus cases per capita which are similar. Yesterday, ND had 58 cases while Minnesota had 346 cases. While…...
Monday, March 23, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 23, 2020
COVID ND had 19 cases on Thursday spread between the four counties in which Bismarck, Fargo, Mandan and Minot are located. The Bismarck-Mandan area was ND's epicenter with 15 of…...
Monday, March 16, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 16, 2020
“THERE’S SOMETHING GOING ON” — A Minot City Council member voiced the city’s dilemma. The air was full of rumors that the city manager had created a hostile work environment…...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 9, 2020
“AN ANNOYING POSSIBILITY” is what the GF Herald is calling a Minnesota proposal to elect “permanent daylight saving time.” That would mean that for half the year there would be…...
Monday, February 24, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 24, 2020
THE FRACKER’S DILEMMA Lee Schafer, a writer for the Star Tribune, may be the best business/economics columnist in the region. The essence of his February 15th column was “Shale oil…...
Monday, February 17, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 17, 2020
ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEMS Last week, I mentioned a series of problems at Altru which climaxed with the firing of the CEO and CFO. The problems included downgrading of Altru’s bond…...
Monday, February 10, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 10, 2020
GF NEEDS PEOPLE “We’ve kind of lost our mojo. It’s a hard thing to put a finger on exactly, but I don’t think we’re seen as really growing – we’ve…...
Monday, February 03, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 3, 2020
ANTIQUE ROAD SHOW visited the Fargo area in June and the resulting three-part series began showing last Monday evening. The first episode took a dramatic turn when a guest learned…...
Monday, January 27, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 27, 2020
DID ANYBODY CARE? Last week, Forum Communications announced its Dickinson Press would no longer be a daily paper and would be reduced to a weekly printed in Bismarck. The announcement…...
Monday, January 20, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 20, 2020
LEST YOU FORGET “The National Weather Service in Grand Forks has issued a a winter storm watch for Friday afternoon through Saturday. The system could harbor gusting winds that could…...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 12, 2020
THE NDSU BISON play tomorrow, January 11, at 11a.m. CST for the national FCS football championship in Frisco, Texas. Both NDSU and its opponent, James Madison University, have undefeated FCS…...
Thursday, January 09, 2020
SCHMID: TOP NORTH DAKOTA STORIES OF 2019
WEATHER SWAMPS FARM ECONOMY Weather and farm income are inseparable. The state has a radical weather history and this year weather devastated most major crops. The growing season started in…...
Wednesday, January 08, 2020
DENNIS PATRICK: NEW-FOUND WEALTH OF RICH POLITICIANS
There is an old adage that helps us understand political jockeying – “Follow the money.” How is it that politicians of modest means are elected to office, enter the Washington,…...
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 6, 2020
THE ND POPULATION grew by 90,000 since the 2010 census and reached 762,000 in mid-2019. But it wasn’t a straight line, after the 2015 break in oil prices the state…...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 23, 2019
IT WASN’T EASY NDSU squeezed out a 9-3 home win in a quarterfinal football playoff game against Illinois State, a team it had easily beaten earlier in the season. However,…...
Monday, December 16, 2019
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 16, 2019
AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR (a cooperative) held it annual meeting in Fargo last week with 800 in attendance. News was bleak. CEO Tom Astrup acknowledged “everybody” would lose money on beets…...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 9, 2019
ANDREW ARMACOST is the new UND president following an unusually open selection process which forwarded three finalists to the State Board of Higher Education. Armacost is a brigadier general who…...
Monday, December 02, 2019
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 2, 2019
UND PRESIDENT Andrew Armacost (U.S. Air Force Academy), Laurie Nichols (Black Hills State) and David Rosowsky (U. of Vermont) were selected as finalists for UND President. Their names go to…...
Monday, November 18, 2019
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - NOVEMBER 18, 2019
THE USDA approved disaster designations for 47 of ND’s 53 counties because of major crop losses due to severe flooding this fall. A county must have a 30% production loss…...
Monday, November 11, 2019
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - NOVEMBER 11, 2019
YEAH! This newsletter has often referred to the Amtrak Empire Builder as an unreliable, expensive anachronism that arrives in Fargo in the middle of the night (maybe?). Fast, reliable morning…...
Monday, November 04, 2019
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - NOVEMBER 4, 2019
A SERIOUS PIPELINE SPILL occurred in Walsh County near Edinburg, ND. The Keystone Pipeline oil spill released nearly 400,000 gallons in a wetlands area. The ramifications go beyond ND —…...
Monday, October 28, 2019
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - OCTOBER 28, 2019
FOOTBALL IN BROOKINGS The popular ESPN College GameDay goes to Brookings, SD, tomorrow where the nationally No. 3 ranked SDSU Jackrabbits play the No. 1 NDSU Bison. The winner will…...
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