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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 - Michael Patrick F. Smith is on a book tour in North Dakota about his time in the bakken. His book is The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown. He visits with Bill Thomas. ~~~ In this week’s Natural North Dakota, we learn about an upcoming meteor shower. ~~~ April is National Poetry Month. We share an excerpt from a recent episode of The Great American Folk Show.

In the second installment in our series examining how to retain teachers in North Dakota, we hear from the 2021 North Dakota Teacher of The Year, Kristi Reinke, and a former Fargo teacher.

Brent and Anna Huso of McVille are in Ukraine to rescue Anna’s family. They share what it’s like in Ukraine. Farmers and Merchants Bank of McVille is accepting donations to help the Huso family.

For this week’s Main Street Eats, Sue Balcom helps us methodically plan out the gardening season.

Thursday, March 17, 2022 – Another Scar of Genocide is a film exploring diabetes among indigenous people. It’s showing at the Grand Theatre in Bismarck on Friday night. We visit with Director Justin Deegan and Executive Producer Darline Perkins. ~~~Three high school students in LaMoure, North Dakota have received national recognition in a CSPAN StudentCam competition. Prairie Public’s Danielle Webster has the story.~~~ For this week’s Main Street Eats, Sue Balcom helps us methodically plan out the gardening season.

Ron Erhardt was born February 27th, 1931, in Mandan, North Dakota. He graduated from Jamestown College in 1953 and then spent two years serving in the military before leaving and getting hired as an assistant football coach for Williston High School. The following year he became head coach at St Mary’s in New England, North Dakota, where he started his winning reputation.

Not so many years ago the sighting of a bald eagle was an uncommon to rare occurrence in North Dakota. Now, of course, these magnificent birds are much more frequently observed, even during the winter months. You may have missed it, but eagles have been the news recently, and all is not well with them.

Deep in the Badlands of North Dakota sits one of the last one-room schools in the state. Horse Creek School, with an enrollment of eleven students as of 2020, is 16 miles from Sidney, Montana, and 38 miles from Watford City. On this date in 1998, it was reported that the little school, which is surrounded by ranches in one of the remotest areas of the state, served as a temporary home for two stranded motorists.

In the fourth installment of the North Dakota Teacher Retention Crisis, North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler discusses the challenges of keeping teachers in the state.

In the fourth installment of the series, “North Dakota Teacher Retention Crisis,” in partnership with North Dakota United, Tom Gerhardt visiting with North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler.