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Next Tuesday, November 3, is the Midterm Election — which probably means a late night for the Prairie Public news team. We’ll be around to bring you results as we receive them, with Todd and Danielle live blogging on our website, and myself on the radio control board.
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Public Domain
When you think of the sights and sounds of fall in North Dakota, flocks of snow geese and other waterfowl overhead come to mind, as do the leaves changing color. But one thing that's often overlooked are the large flocks of red-winged blackbirds that swoop and swirl over sunflower fields and other areas.
Main Street
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ND electric co-ops weigh data center growth; Harvest Public Media examines wolves and livestock; and on MN Reads, author Andrew Wittkop revisits two overlooked literary lives.
Dakota Datebook
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For Vincent Baltulis of Fargo, the hiccups started on a December day in 1936, and they wouldn’t go away. Vincent tried every home remedy he knew. First, he tried holding his breath. Then he tried taking “nine swallows of water in rapid succession.” Nothing worked for the 74-year-old, who had worked as a highly skilled tailor for many years.
Each Friday on A Closer Look with the Monitor, Prairie Public's Craig Blumenshine speaks with North Dakota Monitor journalists about their reporting, giving listeners a closer look at major topics in the news, from education and state policy to energy and agriculture topics.
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Annie Rice
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AP
President Donald Trump said that his administration is "terminating" a Biden-era rule that aimed to cut planet-warming emissions of methane from oil and gas drilling.
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Intense rainstorms linked to a very active El Niño-driven Pacific hurricane season have left thousands of people in the Four Corners states displaced. -
Israelis voted in their highest numbers in over two decades in a tense national election to decide whether to stick with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition.
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