SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: OCTOBER 17, 2011
A 310-acre cornfield, six combines and grain-hauling semis -- a typical ND harvest scene. Not this time. SWAT teams were riding the combines. The equipment was there to harvest an…...
Schmid: Looking Back From the Left Coast
Monday, October 17, 2011
Friday, October 07, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: OCTOBER 1, 2011
“The show must go on” -- Norsk Hstfest Association president Chester Reiten. The show will go on, but one senses it will be significantly diminished. Reiten, who is the founder…...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
“But there is no such way” -- according to Tom Dennis of the GF Herald the Fighting Sioux name can’t be redeemed. That was after saying that a supermajority of…...
Monday, September 05, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
Devils Lake officials described everyday life in a flood zone. The superintendent of schools blamed an enrollment drop on the rising lake and the resulting lack of economic growth. He…...
Monday, August 29, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: AUGUST 28, 2011
The Fighting Sioux image is called one of the most attractive logos in American sports. Bennett Brien, a member of the Turtle Mt. Chippewa and creator of the emblem, said,…...
Monday, August 22, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: AUGUST 22, 2011
Minot leaders are very concerned that winter will arrive before housing is available for displaced residents. The president of the Minot Area Community Foundation estimates $300 million of flood damage…...
Friday, August 12, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: AUGUST 12, 2011
Just a few months ago, Minot was one of the most optimistic small cities in the country. It was a success by almost every indicator: employment, real estate values, business…...
Friday, August 05, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: AUGUST 4, 2011
You’ve heard the phrase “whistling past the graveyard” -- acting brave, despite fears. Organizers of the Norsk Hstfest in Minot say the game is on -- North America’s largest Scandinavian…...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: AUGUST 1, 2011
The tragedies in Oslo, Norway are followed with special interest in ND. U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, himself of Norwegian ancestry, said, “A third of North Dakotans claim Norwegian heritage, and…...
Monday, July 25, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JULY 24, 2011
Despite floods, ND continues to be the economically least stressed state. The AP calculates a stress index for each county in the nation. In May, ND counties accounted for five…...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JULY 16, 2011
What does it take to become head of emergency services and flood recovery in ND? Answer: you should be a Major General and your last name must be almost unpronounceable. …...
Friday, July 08, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JULY 8, 2011
Just as you think (or hope) the Fighting Sioux matter has calmed -- the controversy lurches in a new direction. At the end of June, 15 former presidents of the…...
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JULY 5, 2011
“The city of Minot will never be the same. It can't be. The residents will return, whether it be in days, weeks or months. They will return to destroyed homes…...
Friday, June 24, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JUNE 24, 2011
Minot’s June flooding was the worst in its history. Over 11,000 people fled the Souris River for the second time, an event covered by hourly state and national news coverage. …...
Friday, June 17, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JUNE 18, 2018
The national Republican weekly radio address on Saturday, June 17th will have a slight Norwegian accent. U.S. Sen. John Hoeven will deliver the talk and discuss the importance of Senate…...
Monday, June 13, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: JUNE 13, 2011
GF Herald Editor Mike Jacobs looked around the state and saw water everywhere. From Medora on the Little Missouri River to the Red River Valley there has been serious flooding. …...
Friday, May 20, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MAY 20, 2011
The dust from the 2011 Legislature is still settling, but western ND is waking up to an unprecedented level of state largesse. Roads are the big one -- oil country…...
Friday, May 13, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MAY 12, 2011
It’s May -- time for ND flooding worries to abate. Oops, maybe not. Montana has unmelted snow which was about 140 percent of normal in mid-May. The National Weather Service…...
Monday, May 09, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MAY 9, 2011
Near the conclusion of the ND Legislature’s 78-day session, Sen. Dave Nething of Jamestown, the state's longest serving senator, gave a stirring speech to lawmakers. He said he tries to…...
Monday, May 02, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MAY 5, 2011
“Nothing new at this point” -- Minot Police commenting on the three-month old, unsolved quadruple murder of an American Indian family. A Somalian national with a history of violent crimes…...
Friday, April 22, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: APRIL 22, 2011
Should the BNSF tracks between Devils Lake and Rugby be repaired with public money to accommodate Amtrak service to those towns and Grand Forks? Check the numbers -- only 15-20…...
Friday, April 08, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: APRIL 8, 2011
Sen. Bill Langer was one of ND’s most controversial politicians -- he acted on the belief that bad publicity was better than none. Fargo seems to have gone the same…...
Friday, April 01, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: APRIL 1, 2011
By Jove, I think she’s got it!” -- Prof. Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) expresses surprise and delight in the movie “My Fair Lady” when Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) finally overcomes…...
Monday, March 28, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MARCH 28, 2011
How quickly fortunes can go from sour to sweet (and vice versa). In February, Carrington was reviled because its high school wrestling team abused a raccoon. There were threats to…...
Friday, March 18, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MARCH 18, 2011
The 2010 census data for ND highlights changes since the 2000 census. Keep in mind that was a decade in which the state’s population started at 642,200, dipped, then rebounded to…...
Monday, March 14, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MARCH 12, 2011
Yes, it really happened: Williams and Ree are a comedy team performing under the name “the Indian and the White Guy.” Terry Ree is a member of a Sioux tribe…...
Monday, March 07, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: MARCH 7, 2011
You’ve seen it many times on TV -- a sports team wins a championship and, immediately, bags of championship caps are ready for the celebration. The GF Herald posed a…...
Monday, February 28, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Wayne Sanstead is ND superintendent of public instruction, but apparently not a reader of these pages. As noted here earlier, ND students had an average score of 162 on national…...
Thursday, February 24, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Suppose, in 2004, a federal court stated control of narcotics in a Minot hospital was so bad that “To do nothing . . . would be a tragedy.” Suppose further…...
Friday, February 11, 2011
SCHMID - LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST: FEBRUARY 11, 2011
Parshall is a town of about 1,000 on the northern fringe of the Ft. Berthold Reservation -- its population is almost evenly divided between Indians and whites. Prior to the…...
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