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The adjournment of the Legislature often brings a collective sigh of relief. Sessions over the years have ended late at night, often with major issues decided in the last moments. Some sessions ended bitterly, even violently. Here’s a sampling.

Here is another sampling of musicians from far and wide who have performed in North Dakota. Perhaps you’ll remember some!

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - UND philosophy professor Jack Russell Weinstein joins us to discuss the theme of next Sunday’s episode of “Why, Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life.” It’s a special episode as he visits with four of his current or past students about their experience studying philosophy. That episode has already been recorded, and he’ll preview that engaging conversation.

North Dakota Native American Essential Understanding number four is about sense of humor. It states, "Native people have a rich history of shared sense of humor. That includes teaching stories involving Iktomi, Maymaygwisi and Nanabozhoo. These stories and this unique sense of humor continue to support our resiliency and cohesiveness."

On this bonus episode, Jack Russell Weinstein and Ashley Thornberg explore philosophy in the classroom, his students, and how to present philosophers he doesn’t agree with.

Monday, March 13, 2023 - Artist Medora Frei was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at age 18. Her new book, “These Are My Flowers: My Story of Composting Trauma Into Colorful Art,” explores pain and suffering, and how that shaped her life. ~~~ Moorhead teacher Rebecca Meyer-Larson is the winner of the Citation Award from the National Federation of State High School Associations. This nationwide award is the highest honor given to a coach or director. She will receive the award this summer in Seattle. ~~~ The spring equinox is coming up, and that’s the subject of this week’s Natural North Dakota from Chuck Lura.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - Writer Taylor Brorby is coming back to North Dakota to talk about this book, Boys and Oil: Growing up Gay in a Fractured Land, speaking at Zandbroz in Fargo on March 21st. We visited with him about the book when it came out last year. He joins us today to talk about the reaction. ~~~ The State Historical Society has prepared a special presentation Class B basketball in North Dakota. We visit with Laura Forde, the society’s education and engagement manager; and Sarah Walker, head of the North Dakota State Archives. ~~~ Tom Isern shares a Plains Folk essay.

Cars first used lanterns to light the road in front, but no lights on the rear. As cars became more common, increased traffic led to more accidents. An obvious solution was to install taillights. The only question was what color should indicate the back of a car.

Thursday, April 14, 2022 - We visit with Veteran Mark Lindquist (pictured) who traveled from Fargo to Ukraine to help get supplies to those in the war-torn country. ~~~ Throughout April, Sue Balcom is taking a look at local food systems for Main Street Eats. Today she visits with Marv Baker or North Star Farms in Carpio, about 30 miles north west of Minot. He runs a three-acre organic farm and is a vendor at the North Prairie Farmers Market in Minot.

Anna Oien came over in 1907 from Norway to her uncle’s place at Halstad, and after celebrating her seventeenth birthday, promptly went out to work as a hired girl on the prosperous farm of another Norwegian immigrant. The scholar who interviewed her in 1954, Leonard Sackett (the interview transcript to be found in the collections of the Institute for Regional Studies), records that every night Anna took to her cot in an upstairs hallway and “cried in the dark for fatigue and homesickness.”