Month: April 2024

In an attempt to share with you what’s going on in my phone’s text messages, without offending your sensibilities, I’m going to keep this short. As I mentioned in an earlier column, I continue to get text messages from the Trump campaign after North Dakota’s failed Presidential candidate Doug Burgum shared my personal contact information … Continue reading Headed For Mar-A-Lago?

I’ve been moping around the house most of this cold, wet, windy, dreary, week, feeling sorry for myself because I can’t get out in the garden. I managed one garden day early in the week, and planted about half of what I hope will be this year’s potato crop, but I’ve got a big bag … Continue reading Just How Rich Is Billings County?

When residents of Billings County in western North Dakota, home to the Bad Lands and Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Medora, head to their mailboxes sometime this week or next, they’re going to find a letter from their County Commissioners. That’s unusual. About the only time county government sends you a letter is with your … Continue reading Does the Governor’s Office Have A “Slush Fund?” Well, Not Really . . .

Humorist Will Rogers once said “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." North Dakota Republicans left Fargo mumbling something like that Sunday morning, changing the last word, after the fiasco that was their purported state convention. Democrats, meanwhile, trickled out of town knowing they had at least three … Continue reading And Then The Conventions Were Over . . .

Saturday morning. The first Saturday of April. Time for Spring. I’ve played a lot of golf on the first Saturday of April over the years.  Not last year, of course, when there was two feet of snow on the ground outside my bedroom window. But this year the grass is getting a green tint out … Continue reading Convention Notes . . . So Far