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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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Native American film to air at Culture Corner

April 4, 2013 in Worthington Daily Globe

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. Continue Reading

District judge won’t block suit against pipeline

January 1, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) A Lancaster County district judge has refused to block a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Nebraska’s new pipeline siting law. Continue Reading

Memorial to hanged Dakota men unveiled in Minnesota

December 27, 2012 in The Daily Republic

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.
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Memorial to 38 hanged Dakota men unveiled

December 26, 2012 in The Dickinson Press

MANKATO, Minn. 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. Continue Reading

The economic implications of admission standards

December 1, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald

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. Continue Reading

Famous formation named for homesteaders in N.D. with ties to Granite Falls, Minn.

November 23, 2012 in West Central Tribune

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. Continue Reading

Board moves morgue services to Hennepin County

October 25, 2012 in Rosemount Town Pages

Current medical examiner will stay on as assistant under new deal Continue Reading

Hector, Minn., dies in truck rollover near Gardner, N.D.

October 17, 2012 in West Central Tribune

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For the Dakota, now is a time for revitalization

October 7, 2012 in West Central Tribune

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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