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2/24/2012: On January 24, 1906, US Congressman William Hepburn of Iowa introduced legislation for the Hepburn Rate Bill, also known as the Railroad Rate Bill, to the House of Representatives. This bill was strongly endorsed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and would grant power to the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroad shipping rates.

2/25/2012: Today marks the 153rd birthday of ‘Honest John’ Burke, North Dakota’s tenth Governor.

2/26/2012: On this date in 1949 came a report from Grand Forks of a farmer whose life was saved by three dogs.

2/27/2012: Everyone called them “the Gregerson girls” – Grace, Rose, Florence, Ethel and Mildred. Around 1909 their parents, Sarah and Frederick, moved with three daughters from Minnesota to Fargo, where their father worked for the North Dakota Harness Company. Two more daughters were born in Fargo, and by 1914 the family was complete.

3/9/2012: People from across the state and region are gathering in Valley City today as they have been for the past 75 years. The enticement is the state’s oldest and longest running agricultural exposition: The North Dakota Winter Show.

3/10/2012: A Jamestown man was reunited with the most decorated soldier in the United States Army on this date in 1949.

3/12/2012: Despite being in the middle of World War II, visitors to the North Dakota Winter Show in Valley City were enjoying the last hours of the sixth annual agricultural get-together on this date in 1943.

3/16/2012: We are currently at high tide for political news in the United States during this presidential campaign season. But successful campaigns – and eventual election wins – can’t guarantee the completion of a winner’s full office term.

3/17/2012: Congressman Patrick Norton was born on this date in 1876 in Michigan. His family soon moved to Ramsey County in Dakota Territory where he attended country schools.

3/20/2012: We are living in an age of information. Facebook, Twitter, email, blogs, all of which can be accessed by a variety of instruments, from an available computer in a library, to your own personal smart phones.