Alex RossCampaign buttons from my collection. These ones from former North Dakota Senators Quentin Burdick, Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan.
Will last post buttons from Gubernatorial campaigns of former Govs. George Sinner and Ed Schaffer. #NDpol
🏳️🌈TPFNewsNow🏳️⚧️BREAKING: Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential caucuses in North Dakota. #APRaceCall at 8:20 p.m. CST. https://t.co/P5xpBx52bV #ndpol
MattLeidholmI think you mean a win for schools and teachers, who don’t want their speech freedoms stolen by ignorant legislators, and a win for law enforcement, who don’t want to be literal pronoun police, and a win for all kids, who want to be seen as they are, and a win their families, who want to see them survive. That’s who this is a win for. #lgbtqrights #ndpol #transrightsarehumanrights
creekSince I'm on a downer of a week, here's a reminder that the mayor over the river is a big NIMBY:
> Mayor Bochenski effected change in 2019 by purchasing land which brought the construction of apartment buildings near his residential property to a halt.
https://www.grandforksherald.com/opinion/letters/letter-fare-thee-well-fufeng-project #ndpol #fufeng
> Mayor Bochenski effected change in 2019 by purchasing land which brought the construction of apartment buildings near his residential property to a halt.
https://www.grandforksherald.com/opinion/letters/letter-fare-thee-well-fufeng-project #ndpol #fufeng
This is true, particularly the first sentence:
> Rob Port has become North Dakota's premier gossip columnist, a twenty-first century heir of Walter Winchell with all of the journalistic ethics that one might expect from Walter Winchell. That is to say, none. He has also become the court jester of North Dakota's Republican Party establishment, wielding his poisoned pen against anyone who challenges its hegemony.
https://hpr1.com/index.php/opinion/last-word/feudin-a-fussin-and-a-fightin/ #CaraMund #ndpol
> Rob Port has become North Dakota's premier gossip columnist, a twenty-first century heir of Walter Winchell with all of the journalistic ethics that one might expect from Walter Winchell. That is to say, none. He has also become the court jester of North Dakota's Republican Party establishment, wielding his poisoned pen against anyone who challenges its hegemony.
https://hpr1.com/index.php/opinion/last-word/feudin-a-fussin-and-a-fightin/ #CaraMund #ndpol
deckchairs kittyThe Dakotas are ‘as bad as it gets anywhere in the world’ for COVID-19
South Dakota welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to a massive motorcycle rally this summer, declined to cancel the state fair and still doesn’t require masks. Now its hospitals are filling up and the state’s current COVID-19 death rate is among the worst in the world.
The situation is similarly dire in North Dakota, with the state’s governor recently moving to allow health care workers who have tested positive for COVID-19 to continue working if they don’t show symptoms… And now — after months of resisting a statewide mask mandate — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum changed course late Friday, ordering masks to be worn statewide…
North Dakota’s COVID-19 death rates in the past week are similar to the hardest hit countries in the world right now — Belgium, Czech Republic and Slovenia — according to Saturday New York Times data. That data also places South Dakota’s recent per capita deaths among the world’s highest rates.
“…You in the Dakotas … you knew it was coming… You denied it … even today you are denying it.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/11/14/covid-19-north-south-dakota-masks-kristi-noem/6237635002/