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This week's Prairie Beat, we examine North Dakota's two 2026 ballot measures, including a higher threshold for constitutional amendments and free K-12 school meals.
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Hunters face deer season changes amid EHD; lawmakers weigh data center rules; George Peck examines Tesla’s flying Roadster; Tom Isern recalls prairie Halloween mischief.
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Fort Abercrombie was built in 1857 along the heavily wooded Red River, 15 miles north of the present-day towns of Wahpeton, North Dakota, and Breckenridge, Minnesota. Both towns were founded at the “Head of the Red” in 1858 by Pierre Bottineau, a French-Chippewa frontiersman and railroad surveyor. He led a team of men from St. Paul who spent the winter there to hold the claim.
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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Skerritt was Captain Dallas in Alien, Viper in Top Gun, and a small town sheriff in the TV series Picket Fences.
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In '72, filmmaker William Greaves hosted a cocktail party for the surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance. Our critic says the footage is "like watching a 50th college reunion set on Mt. Olympus."
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We take y'all to church on this episode. We presents three artists backed by choirs behind the Desk. Look for Tiny Desk Radio on your local NPR station.
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