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It should be obvious to drivers that a car is no match for a train, but the number of accidents at railroad crossings steadily increased in the early years of the Twentieth Century. At that time, few crossings had signs or warning lights. Drivers were urged to pause and look before crossing the tracks.

Darin Langerud is the Director of the North Dakota Atmospheric Resources Board, a quasi-judicial, quasi-legislative advisory and rule-making board under the supervision of the State Water Commission, which has oversight of the state’s cloud seeding programs. We discuss the state program. ~~~ 529 plans are used for college savings. Starting next year, people will have the opportunity to roll over unused funds into a ROTH IRA penalty free. We talk with Bell Investment Wealth Advisor Nicholas Peterson about what parents and college students need to know.

On this date in 1968, the University of North Dakota's student newspaper, The Dakota Student, revealed a bombshell – “Iron Mask exists.”

January 2, 2023 - Blending tradition and modern living is the aim of the book The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World. We visit with author Dr. Anton Treuer, a professor of Ojibwe of Bemidji State University.

North Dakota’s extreme winter weather poses some limits on recreational activities. Sledding and ice skating can lose their attraction in below zero temperatures. Consequently, North Dakotans are happy to find opportunities for indoor recreation. The foundation for one such recreation was laid on this date in 1863 when James Plimpton patented a four-wheel roller skate.

North Dakotans took great pride when the United States Navy announced that a new dreadnought was to be christened as the USS North Dakota. It was a Delaware-class battleship, armed with a main battery of ten twelve-inch guns and was capable of a top speed of twenty-one knots. North Dakota newspapers declared her to be the “Mistress of the Seas.”

Sue Balcom is here for a Main Street Eats on new year’s resolutions.

Thursday, December 29, 2022 - We continue looking back on the best of 2022. We reair a conversation from October with Dr. Temple Grandin, autism activist, scientist and New York Times bestselling author. She joins us to discuss her new book, “Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions.” ~~~ Bringing bison back to the prairie transforms the landscape in ways that may well make it more resilient against climate change and benefit other wildlife.Celia Llopis-Jepsenof the Kansas News Service reports on a rare three-decade study by scientists at Kansas State University. ~~~ Sue Balcom is here for a Main Street Eats on new year’s resolutions. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “Argentina: 1985.”

Tuesday, December 27, 2022 - The Supreme Court has had a busy year. Would you believe that female US Supreme Court Justices are interrupted four times more often than male ones? We visit with Mary Ann Sieghart the author of The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It. Today we reair a conversation from March. ~~~ Will Cromarty is working to provide accessible museum space to local collectors. As a former CIA officer and national security subject-matter expert in aerospace and satellite systems, space/counterspace weapons system counterproliferation, and aerospace-sector geopolitics, he comments on current events. Across the aerospace sector, William spearheads federal partnerships in support of America's most cutting-edge satellite and UAS programs.

Wednesday, December 28, 2022 - For this month’s Philosophical Currents, Dr. Jack Russell Weinstein looks at antisemitism, which is on the rise. ~~~ Tom Isern shares a Plains Folk essay, “Young Charlotte." ~~~ The Ursulina is set in the frozen north woods of rural Minnesota. Deputy Rebecca Colder hunts the mythical Ursulina creature responsible for brutal murders. We reair a conversation from April with author Brian Freeman.