Month: September 2016

Last year, when I was getting ready for my 50-year class reunion of the 1965 graduating class from Hettinger High School, I dug through boxes of keepsakes downstairs and found my senior class yearbook. It was actually an expanded edition of the Hettinger Hi-Lites, our high school newspaper, but it was the same format as … Continue reading Thoughts on Arnold Palmer

There was a discussion at my table last night about whether Indians in North Dakota have gained or lost respect as a result of the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy. There was no consensus. But what I do know is that important voices are rising in support of Tribal actions (although not so much in support … Continue reading Bottom Line: In Your Face

America’s best journalist—ever—Seymour Hersh, and North Dakota’s best journalist—ever—Mike Jacobs, will share a stage with the publisher and editor of America’s first “national newspaper”—Ben Franklin, at the North Dakota Humanities Council’s  “GameChanger Ideas Festival” this Saturday in Bismarck. It may be the most distinguished panel of writers gathered anywhere in America that day, and surely … Continue reading A Day for the Pulitzers

Boy, it’s confusing. I’ve tried to follow the events at Standing Rock pretty closely, and I’ve written about it a few times. Let me repeat what I said earlier: I think we need to build this pipeline because it is the safest way to move our oil, and it is the only pipeline project on … Continue reading Time to Just Shut Up

Today I am 69. It is a meaningless birthday, in a world and time when numbers that don’t end in 0 or 5 are of little consequence. But, it is significant in that I am still here. Males in my family don’t generally live this long. I kind of wish I had planned a little … Continue reading May YOU Live in Interesting Times