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Would You Like to Die? Why Not Move to North Dakota?
Gabrielle Bluestone · 04/29/15 07:00PMNorth Dakota Students' "Siouxper Drunk" Shirts Are Super Racist
Jay Hathaway · 05/12/14 02:55PMThe NCAA declared the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux mascot "hostile and abusive" in 2005, and the state voted to remove it in 2012, which leaves the school without a nickname until 2015. Not to worry, though. A group of students has found a solution: Use the same mascot, but add a beer bong to the logo. There's no way this could possibly backfire.
Part-African Neo-Nazi Pleads to Charges After His Aryan Utopia Fails
Adam Weinstein · 04/29/14 03:02PMQuiz: Do You Live In One of the Shittiest U.S. States?
Adam Weinstein · 02/24/14 09:53AMWhite Supremacists Tried to Take Over a Town: Here's the Documentary
Sarah Hedgecock · 02/04/14 03:21PMLeith, North Dakota, was once a ghost town. But recently, there's been a population boom: white supremacists have begun moving into the small town in an effort to take it over. Now, No Weather Productions is making a documentary about the town, its people, and its new tenants.
Giant Explosions Reported After Train Derailment in North Dakota
Taylor Berman · 12/30/13 04:42PMLacey Donohue · 11/27/13 12:13AM
[North Dakota resident George Loegering saw this large spinning ice circle in the Sheyenne River while out hunting on Saturday. Members of the National Weather Service said a combination of cold, dense air last weekend and an eddy in the river likely caused the large spinning circle of ice bits to form. Photo by George Loegering via AP]
"Oilfield Trash" and a Boom That Won't Last
Ken Layne · 10/08/13 11:18AMPeople are strangers out here on the oil patch, and public conversation is terse and muted. You never know when an oil company manager or safety inspector or corporate spy is sniffing around. I learned after the first day in Williston, N.D., that my usual work uniform of an old sports coat and tie made me suspect. Leaving the tie at the motel helped, but not much.
Bakken Boom: Where the Buffalo Are Furloughed
Ken Layne · 10/07/13 10:02AMOil wells and sheet-metal buildings are hideous things, but America the Beautiful resumes as soon as you get past the last grim RV park and last signs of our shoddy civilization. The easiest way to refresh the soul is to look on the map for a big chunk of green: a national park or preserve or forest, or in the case of the Bakken, the Little Missouri National Grassland.
American Ugly: Bakken Shantytowns and Stucco Strip Malls
Ken Layne · 10/04/13 02:01PMBoomtowns don't have to be ugly. San Francisco was built during the Gold Rush, as was Sacramento and dozens of still pretty towns in the Sierra Nevada. Virginia City, home to the Comstock Lode, quickly built up neighborhoods of ornate mansions and a main street that offered everything from Oscar Wilde lectures in the opera house to exotic prostitutes from Australia and China. But since the 1960s, when America lost its ability to see or create beauty, our endless boom and bust cycle produces nothing but garbage: garbage housing, garbage retail, garbage jobs and garbage products.
Boomtown Rats on the Lonesome Prairie
Ken Layne · 10/03/13 03:08PMNorth Dakota Inching Ever Closer to Being First State to Enact Personhood Abortion Law
Cord Jefferson · 03/22/13 03:52PMThe North Dakota House passed a bill this afternoon that would define life as beginning at conception, effectively moving one step closer to banning all abortion in the state without exception for rape or incest. Approved by the state Senate last month, the bill will now go to voters as a ballot initiative. This latest restrictive measure comes only a week after North Dakota legislators approved bills that would ban abortion beyond six weeks into pregnancy and ban abortion in the case of genetic abnormality, like Downs Syndrome.
Hamilton Nolan · 03/15/13 03:04PM
Every Single Weather Report From Now On Should Be Presented by This Dapper Kid Meteorologist
Neetzan Zimmerman · 02/08/13 04:10PM20-Year-Old Commemorative McDonald's BBQ Sauce Sells for $10,000. But How Do You Put a Price on Sauce, Really?
Caity Weaver · 10/17/12 05:48PMCollege Football Player Kicked Off Team After Kissing His Boyfriend at a Game
Louis Peitzman · 09/11/12 08:05PMCrazy Fools Want to Eliminate Property Taxes
Hamilton Nolan · 06/12/12 10:29AMThe key rule of responsible long term financial planning is: Whenever you build a financial surplus, even for a moment, immediately blow that surplus on a plan that will also eliminate a steady source of long term income. I was kidding! That is not actually a "good" rule of financial planning. But it is a craven political rule, and isn't that what's really important?
Is Fame Driving Elderly Olive Garden Critic to Madness?
Maureen O'Connor · 03/15/12 10:52AMGrand Forks Olive Garden Receives Positive Review (UPDATE)
Emma Carmichael · 03/08/12 12:11PMThe recently-opened Olive Garden in Grand Forks, N.D., is off to a great start, according to Marilyn Hagerty, longtime food critic for the Grand Forks Herald. The restaurant "is the largest and most beautiful" in town and has been patronized by visitors "from out of town as well as people who live here," Hagerty reports in yesterday's positive review.