Abortion, taxes are top topics at legislative forum
April 6, 2013 in The Jamestown Sun
Four Republican lawmakers spoke in favor of three laws seeking to curtail abortion in North Dakota at a Legislative Forum Friday at City Hall, while one Democratic lawmaker expressed reservations with some and the other spoke against all three.
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WORTHINGTON At 6:30 p.m. Monday, the Culture Corner will show Dakota 38, a documentary about a group of Native Americans that journeyed to the site of the Dec. 26, 1862, mass hanging in Mankato.
MANKATO, Minn. (AP) Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday for the unveiling of a memorial to 38 Dakota men who were hanged 150 years ago to the day in what is the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
Ralph Kingsbury, a former member of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education, likes to tell about the Walsh County farmer who reacted to news that the state university system might impose admission standards in this way: “I pay taxes and my son has a right to flunk out of the university.” That’s about to change.
TIOGA, N.D. Lorin Bakken recalls it was 2007 when he began seeing his name in the newspaper and on TV frequently as the oil boom started to heat up.
UPPER SIOUX COMMUNITY Harry Running Walker’s great-grandfather was among the chiefs who signed the 1851 treaty that ceded most of the Dakota land in Minnesota to the U.S. government for about 12 cents an acre.
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