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Next week’s special Legislative session marks the first time there has been two special sessions between regular sessions. However, this doesn’t include “reconvened sessions,” when the Legislature had to call itself back to Bismarck.
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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. -
Francisco Del Canto Viterale is the first to represent North Dakota on the Council.
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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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In August of 1930, men who had fought for the Union during the Civil War and were able to make the trip to Cincinnati were at a convention for the 'Boys in Blue' who marched home with a Union victory in '65.
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 artist was a star performer in country music, and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.
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The world largely moved on from the Rohingya crisis. But the exodus has not stopped, aid is shrinking and a generation of refugees is growing up with little prospect of going home. -
Voters in at least six states will soon decide ballot measures related to voter ID — the largest number of voter ID measures in a single year. The tally includes three prominent swing states.
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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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