John Andrist: Singing Is the Fruit of a Long Life
“Do you want to sing in our choir?” It was one of the first things they asked me after I...
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#VeteransForStandingRock Has Been a Huge, Embarrassing Failure
For weeks in November we here in North Dakota were inundated with news about thousands of veterans coming to North...
Governor Jack Dalrymple Proposes Closing Down BreatheND, North Dakota’s Tobacco Taliban
The "Tobacco Taliban" is what state lawmakers, in private moments, call the bureaucratic zealots at the Center for Tobacco Prevention...
Audio: Meet the Guy Who Thinks the Blizzard Was a Government Attack on #NoDAPL Protesters
The #NoDAPL movement is one built in no small part on half-baked legal reasoning and conspiracy theories. It seems as...
New Standing Rock Water Intake Will Be Downstream From a Railroad Bridge Carrying Oil Shipments
Yesterday we got news from Reuters that delays in completing the Dakota Access Pipeline brought on by intense and often...
Video: Gov. Dalrymple Delivers Final Budget Address, Credits Law Enforcement for #NoDAPL Response
In North Dakota state law requires that we convene a session of our Legislature every January in odd-numbered years, just...
Video: #NoDAPL Tribal Leader Says “That Pipeline Had Every Right to Go Through”
This quote from Standing Rock Sioux chairman David Archambault is from a couple of days ago, but a reader just...
Congrats #NoDAPL: Thanks to Dakota Access Delays More Oil to Be Shipped by Train
"You can't drink oil, keep it in the soil." That's been one of the chants used most often by #NoDAPL...
Audio: Former Gov. Ed Schafer Says He Doesn’t Think “State Has Done a Good Job” Handling #NoDAPL
I had former Governor Ed Schafer on my radio show today and while most of our conversation focused on the...
The #NoDAPL Protesters Should Have Heeded Warnings About the Weather
Back in the middle of last month, before winter descended on North Dakota with a vengeance, I warned #NoDAPL protesters...
