This, to me, is very exciting news.  It’s economic development and renewable energy driven by North Dakota’s hardworking and creative people. The article, Seeding a ‘Homegrown’ Wind Farm in North Dakota, says the project has been six years in the making.  I’ll have to follow up with this one later to see exactly where they are [...]

It’s exciting news for the state of North Dakota:  Bush will appoint former governor Ed Schafer as the new Secretary of Agriculture.  The announcement is being made this afternoon.  From the AP story: WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday will nominate Edward Schafer, a former two-term Republican governor from North Dakota, to be his next [...]

Jack Pumpkinstein…a poor Jack O’ Lantern who fell down and broke his crown, welcomes you to the ribbon cutting of www.grizzlygroundswell.com, a political blog owned and run by North Dakota ambassador Chad Everson.read more | digg story

Paper making.  Book making.  Pages on how to paint, how to create a biome, classroom projects and pages for teachers and children–Lone Prairie Art Works has a long list of free, informal online tutorials to help people enjoy personal art projects. “I’ve always tried to include techniques for how I did things and things I [...]

  My parents came to visit from out of state this past weekend.  During their too-brief stay, Dad did one thing he truly loves most to do:  he took long drives out in the country admiring North Dakota’s beautiful farmland.  Every time he walked back into the house, he was grinning, and every time, he offered North [...]

More fun North Dakota things to brag about: On Tuesday, Glen Ullin clockmaker Ken Muggli  was featured on the Mind Your Own Business blog.  The article touts Muggli’s craftsmanship, knowledge and pride in his work.    I just discovered a June post at the Gourmet Food and Travel Blog featuring Bismarck chef Stewart Tracy and his Pirogue Grille.  Read that post here. [...]

An article published today in the Minot Daily News brings to light a new possible deterrent to ethanol development:  the high cost of using anhydrous ammonia to produce a bumper crop of corn. The article–Producers roll through corn harvest–seems to indicate that corn prices haven’t risen as much as farmers expected them to even though the development [...]

Yesterday John Ruberry of the Marathon Pundit blog wrote about now North Dakota is happily developing its wind energy potential, while millionaires in Cape Cod have stopped (maybe temporarily) the development of a 130-turbine wind farm in Massachusetts.    The post begins with this sentence: What’s good enough for North Dakota apparently isn’t good enough for the [...]

Last night (October 24, 2007) a fireball crashed near Bismarck.   In a similar sighting a little over a year ago, three fireballs fell from the sky (read article here).   Maybe it’s just the spooky Halloween atmosphere, but it seems like there is a lot going on in North Dakota skies–including some bizarre UFO sightings.  For fun, I’ve made a mini-directory [...]

From September 24, 2007  I came across a circuit created at North Dakota State University’s clean rooms today.  The picture didn’t turn out very well, but it’s amazing to me how tiny and intricate that work is.  The whole piece is only about an inch long and feels like it was made out of kodak [...]