The recent impeachment of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich brought to mind some early North Dakota history.   The first governor ever to be recalled in the United States was Lynn Frazier, who served as governor of North Dakota from around 1917 to 1921.  Politics in those days were messy.  Farmers who felt they weren’t being [...]

North Dakota state Senator Richard Marcellais is as kind as he is intelligent.  Congratulations to him for his election to tribal chairman for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa–I’m sure he’ll do as much good there as he does in our state senate. Read more about it here.

First Lady Mikey Hoeven will be co-hosting the 2008 Women’s Health Summit on Oct. 6, along with North Dakotans Partnering For Women’s Health.  Read more about it here.

At least in my mind.  Take a look at the list of issues she has covered in the past few months… My favorites from the list linked to above: Oil on the Fort Berthold Reservation, published this past May (the Fort Berthold Reservation sits over the Bakken oil formation)  Exploring Traditional, Healthy Food–chokecherries and corn, in this [...]

This Personality By State post at GetListy discusses recent research from the University of Cambridge, which ranked aspects of personality by state.  North Dakota came in number one for extrovertedness and again for agreeableness.  The state came in last for openness. It’s exactly what I see.  The people of North Dakota may not like change [...]

According to this article, 39 year-old Brenda Jo Gillund of Grand Forks, North Dakota won a place as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans.  The program is sponsored by the Jaycees.  Gillund is the first person in North Dakota to receive this recognition. From the article: The Ten Outstanding Young Americans program is one [...]

Once again, North Dakota State University has something the rest of the nation doesn’t.  This time, its Jarret Brachman, a counterterrorism expert and native of Fargo.    According to this Bismarck Tribune article, Brachman has worked with the CIA and recently directed West Poin’ts Combating Terrorism Center.  Brachman will be returning to the state to help [...]

The blog Wild Horses of TRNP is a fantastic blog detailing the bands of wild horses that roam Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota.  Besides some breathtaking pictures, Marylu Weber and her husband Henry have some hands-on experience with these horses.  They’ve helped track them for the past several years.  Last spring, Marylu [...]

State Senator Tom Seymour, D-Minot has profiled Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND and others on this blog post concerning the upcoming Red River Valley Research Program conference scheduled for October 13.  The Red River Valley Research Corridor plays an important part in our state economy.  There are around three business incubators in the corridor associated with University of [...]

Chad Everson, a former North Dakotan and a North Dakota Ambassador, has got more on his hands than his Raku pottery business, the Clay Empire. Everson is also the owner of Grizzly Groundswell, a conservative political blog that in the past year organized a national network of conservative bloggers and thinkers.  Under his direction, the network has [...]