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Nestled among the pine trees along a stretch of Big Lake Road sits a tiny blue building. If the signs are out on the roadside, the coffee kiosk is open for business.
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Francisco Del Canto Viterale is the first to represent North Dakota on the Council. -
The current system is 50 years old.
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Episode 77 features music from Ruth Buckman Malm of Belfield, ND, French singer-songwriter Marianne Dissard, Irish and British songwriter Bird, and musician Riley Downing. Plus, John C. Reilly reads Willie Nelson’s foreword to North Dakota attorney Sarah Vogel’s book, “The Farmer’s Lawyer.” Also, Tom Brosseau shares a 2022 interview between him and former North Dakota lieutenant governor, Lloyd Omdahl. Omdahl passed away in 2024.
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DAR members honor the U.S.-Canada bond at the Peace Garden, and the North Dakota Book and Arts Festival in Jamestown Sept. 26 celebrates regional creativity.
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On this date in 1916, citizens of Fargo were reading about an attempted escape from the Cass County jail. According to the local papers, "Only the eternal vigilance of Sheriff John Ross and his force of deputies" prevented the escape from happening.
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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The Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that blocked key parts of Trump's order to limit voting by mail for the midterms. But U.S. Postal Service work on the order remains blocked nationwide.
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As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR. -
Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff's deputy whose fatal shooting of Sonya Massey inside her home became a flashpoint over police use of force, died Sunday while serving a 20-year prison sentence.
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Hoping to boost his tribe’s economy beyond gambling some 15 years ago, former Tribal Council member Earl Pendleton went searching for a project that could bring jobs and investment to benefit the entire Lower Sioux Indian Community.
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