Sonia Nazario ~ Honoring Arnold Charging ~ Sona Mehring at TEDx Fargo ~ Remembering Bill Treumann

Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems — hunger, drug addiction, immigration. “Enrique’s Journey” won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. She’s one of the featured guests at this year’s Gamechanger series sponsored by the North Dakota Humanities Council. ~~~ A profile from another 2016 inductee to the North Dakota Native Hall of Honor: Arnold Charging. ~~~ An update on the protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline from NPR’s Jeff Brady. ~~~ Sona Mehring, the founder of Caring Bridge, was one of the speakers at this year’s TEDx event in Fargo. Here are her remarks. ~~~ Bill Treumann was a professor at the North Dakota Agricultural College, which became NDSU, and at Moorhead State College. He passed away August 2^nd at the age of 100. We share some oral history from Bill as he tells a story to his daughter Beverly about running away from home when he was 15.