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CurioOn This Day | Can I Stay in Jail, Please

Over in the county jail is John Pope, an 18 year old youth from Pennsylvania who was offered suspension of a 30-day jail sentence imposed Jan. 24 by Judge Joseph Funke. The young man [...]

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CurioOn This Day | A North Dakota Civil War Veteran

Grandpa Smith, by which name he is known thruout the community, is very much interested in the news of the day and nothing gives him more pleasure than his daily papers which he reads [...]

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CurioOn This Day | Pulling Threads

What we want is a higher price for cows and a lower price for meat and then we will have the butchers where the farmers are now. Might be good politics ... there aren't [...]

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CommentaryPort: This is your fault

We like to think of politics as something happening to us, a spectacle we watch from the sidelines. But the truth is harder to swallow: the people in office are a reflection of the people who put them there—or didn’t bother to vote at all. In North Dakota, low voter turnout leaves a lot of [...]

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NewsProposed measure seeks changes to North Dakota legislators’ salaries, public records and lobbying

A proposed constitutional measure in North Dakota aims to shake up legislative transparency, ethics, and accountability. If approved, it would make all communications between legislators about public business open records, prevent lawmakers from receiving state employee benefits, and delay pay raises until after an election. It also targets lobbying, barring former legislators from taking lobbying [...]

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NewsState’s mineral resources director says industry in transition

Nathan Anderson, the newly appointed director of the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, recently returned to his hometown of Minot to discuss the state’s energy outlook at a quarterly meeting of the American Petroleum Institute’s Bakken Chapter. With a wealth of experience from his 25 years in the oil and gas sector, Anderson noted [...]

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CurioMaggie (And Why You Can’t Talk to Your Kids)

In the 19th century, Americans often dropped song references into conversation, expecting shared understanding. For the settlers of the Great Plains, phrases like “When you and I were young, Maggie” echoed the nostalgia of their lives. Francis Edward Abernathy’s work reveals that one song—often just called “Maggie”—was especially cherished among cowboys. Yet, this seemingly simple [...]

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CommentaryWhy Americans need well-informed national security decisions – not politicized intelligence analysis

The strength of U.S. intelligence lies in its ability to provide leaders with clear, unbiased assessments—but recent history suggests that’s easier said than done. An investigation found that during Trump’s first term, intelligence reports were politicized, with officials withholding or reshaping information to fit preferred narratives. This isn’t new; past administrations have also ignored or [...]

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CurioPrairie Fare: Current egg prices scramble omelet costs

“What is the surcharge on eggs?” I asked our server as she poured us cups of coffee. I was perusing the somewhat apologetic sign on the restaurant table. The increase in egg prices had caused them to charge customers a little extra for eggs. “It’s $30 per egg,” she said. “$30?” I asked with a [...]

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CommentaryListen: How the world fell in love with plastic without thinking through the consequences

Plastics are everywhere, and that’s part of the problem. While 400 million tons of plastic are manufactured each year, 57 million tons end up as pollution. Attempts to create a binding treaty on plastic pollution recently stalled, as major oil producers resist curbing plastic production. As clean energy eats into oil profits, these countries see [...]

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CommentaryWill the world fall in love with nuclear power once more?

For decades, nuclear power has been stuck in the shadow of its past—haunted by accidents, burdened by regulation, and the butt of pop culture jokes. But as the world scrambles to cut carbon emissions, nuclear is inching back into the conversation. Environmental journalist Marco Visscher argues that dismissing it outright is a mistake. With renewables [...]

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CurioOn This Day | Sunday, February 9th

On this day in 1825, the United States House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams as the sixth President of the United States after no candidate received a majority in the Electoral College, marking a significant moment in American political history. On this day in 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected as the provisional president of [...]

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CurioOn This Day | Dealing Grass Across the Globe

From far away Africa cam a letter on Feb. 4 to the Valker Christensen Co. Minot seed dealers, for information concerning crested wheat grass seed. ... A.M. Christensen says that during all the years [...]

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CurioOn This Day | Caw Caw Caw

It is so easy for you to justify your beliefs and actions you ought to know the other fellow well be able to support his. [...]

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CurioOn This Day | Selfishness and Egotism

As the kings of early days could see nothing as important as themselves, so are there people today in every town who can see no good in their neighbors or any worthwhile undertaking. Their [...]

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CurioOn This Day | Yikes!

Following a snow from the northwest thruout Tuesday that tied up traffic on most of the highways, the mercury dropped to 36 degrees below zero at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning and continued to fall, [...]

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