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This week, lawmakers return to Bismarck for a three-day special session,to deal with spending $199 million in federal funds for rural health improvement. Plus, Gov. Armstrong will deliver his State of the State Address.
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Knutson was a member of the Democratic-NPL party. He served as a legislator, insurance commissioner and labor commissioner. He was "profoundly inspired" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The state is receiving $199 million.
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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Rural health funding, German-Russian heritage, winter STEM at Gateway to Science, news and a look at how researchers face major cuts under new federal policies.
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Invented in the 1870s, the power binder cut grain and tied the stalks into bundles using twine. One person and a team of horses could accomplish work that had formerly taken six workers to do.
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The Martha Graham Dance Company is just the latest to say they will no longer perform at the Kennedy Center since Trump took over last year.
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Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier and that's a big problem for two of the cute tuxedoed species that face extinction by the end of the century, a study said.
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In his second term, the president is embracing a foreign policy that breaks sharply from U.S. tradition. Both supporters and critics say he's upending a global system in place for 80 years.