Author: Jim Fuglie

Here’s what I think of the election. We got all dressed up to go to the ball, and we ended up at a rodeo. Now, there’s nothing wrong with a good rodeo. A good rodeo can be very entertaining. There’s a bunch of guys and even a few gals out in the arena who don’t … Continue reading Let ‘Er Buck!

This year, as in most election years, I found a stack of notes to myself on my desk about things I thought I might write a blog about, but never got around to it because pheasant season opened, or the fish started biting, or the ducks were migrating, or Lillian’s “Things to Do In The … Continue reading Election Tidbits

All the Republicans are going to win. All the ballot measures are going to lose. No, that’s not my election prediction for 2016 (although it’s pretty close). Those were my election prediction on my blog for 2014, written two years ago this week, just before the 2014 election. (You can go back and look at … Continue reading Some Thoughts on the Election

A couple of months ago I wrote about the new oil refinery proposed by Meridian Energy Group, to be built just east of Medora, within three miles of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. I wanted to wait with a follow-up until Meridian had actually submitted an application for an air quality permit, detailing what kind of … Continue reading The Great Meridian Energy Smokestack Scam

Pipelines Leak. If North Dakota didn’t have such an awful reputation for not enforcing its environmental regulations in the Oil Patch, maybe we wouldn’t have a few thousand people camped out along the Cannonball River protesting the mother of all North Dakota pipelines, Dakota Access. Pipelines have been leaking oil and dangerous fracking salt water … Continue reading Death by a Thousand Cuts

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