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Sue Balcom discusses food trends for 2022 in today’s Main Street Eats.

Monday, January 17, 2022 - On this Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, we discuss various aspects of race and the importance of holidays with UND philosophy professor Jack Russell Weinstein.

Sunday, January 16, 2022 - On Sundays we feature highlights from the previous week. Today we’ve chosen Alicia Hegland-Thorpe’s story about ribbon skirt designer Agnes Woodward. ~~~ Sue Balcom’s Main Street Eats topic is food trends for 2022.

Tuesday, January 18, 2022 - Dr. Abraam Yakoub is an associate professor of biomedical sciences at UND. His team received a $4.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health for a 5-year project studying COVID. ~~~ The federal government uses scores of programs to give tens of billions of dollars a year to help rural America. But the USDA alone has more than a dozen definitions of rural, depending on the program. Harvest Public Media’s Jonathan Ahl reports that can leave some very small towns out of the process.

Friday, January 14, 2022 - The late civil rights leader and co-founder of the American Indian Movement Clyde Bellecourt inspired many of today’s indigenous leaders. Christy Goulet, an Ojibwe medicine woman, honors his legacy. ~~~ Dave Thompson is here for this week’s news chat. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “C’mon C’mon” starring Joaquin Phoenix.

Matt likes this offering from Joel Coen

In February, 1898, a massive explosion sent the battleship Maine to the bottom of Havana harbor. The Spanish were quickly blamed for the destruction of the American ship and for the deaths of 260 American sailors, over half of the crew. Many influential Americans including Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst demanded a forceful response. There were other voices like Mark Twain who remembered the horrors of the Civil War and urged calm, but the cooler heads were unable to prevail. The United States declared war against Spain.

Today’s regular hard news outlets are, sadly, primed with COVID events and lawbreaking. Back in 1944, The war was the news.

North Dakota’s Nonpartisan League is remembered for the populist surge in state politics a century ago. Among the most well-known of the League’s legacy are the state-owned Bank of North Dakota and the State Mill and Elevator, overseen by the Industrial Commission. The League-controlled Legislature also passed a law banning vaccination mandates, which stood for more than 50 years.

We have had a few days this winter when the sundogs have been quite prominent in the morning and evening sky. Although not rainbows, the basic principles are similar. The scientific name for sundogs is parihelia (singular parahelion). They often appear during cold winter days when ice crystals are abundant in the atmosphere and the sun is low in the sky.