<iJJ> Woodside shot in final seconds propels NDSU to NCAA tournament berth The Bison are the first (FIRST) team since 1970 to make it to the NCAA Tournament in their first (FIRST) year of eligibility. Go Bison!! This video is from this teams (2008-09) Midnight Madness show back in October. Thi...

Recently North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm blasted Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota for sending some of its personnel on sales trips to tropical locations.  Now, given how quickly Blue Cross Blue Shield has raised its rates over the last few years, given how much strain that p...

The Grand Forks Alerus Center Financial Disaster on the Prairie I want to start off by saying that this is speculation.  On the other hand when the Alerus Commission and City Leaders aren’t giving us the complete picture you have to wonder why.  When the Grand Forks Herald shows NO i...

You gotta love Texas. The plurality of Texas voters (47%) support Governor Rick Perry’s opposition to accepting the state’s $17 billion share of the national economic stimulus package. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 40% think the governor should accept the money, an...

Unbelievable: BISMARCK - In a Wednesday overview for the North Dakota University System budget bill, Senate Bill 2003, chancellor Bill Goetz urged lawmakers to look at the budget requests more as policy issues than budget issues. “The success of the university system does not rest just with th...

Earlier today I posted about the upcoming news conference by Mike Brown laying out his vision for the future.  Well the first reports are out and they smell fishy to me. It IS a monorail; and an aquarium, too… First, Brown didn’t call it a “monorail;” he said “ligh...

<iJJ> News: Pedro Zamora, Kentucky, Jesus Luz, Kate Moss, Twitter <iJJ> North Dakota Senate Approves Adding Gays To Existing Protected Classes I love Joe.My.God. and Towleroad - they are great blogs. However I’d like to point out that they missed that the bill in consideration is i...

Yesterday the North Dakota senate voted to add sexual orientation to its list of groups protected from discrimination. "If someone is not doing their job, or habitually tardy, or doesn't get along with people, they can still be fired, whether gay, lesbian or straight," said Sen. Tom Fiebiger, D-Farg...

North Dakota’s House of Representatives has passed a bill declaring that every fertilized egg has all the same rights of a baby.   If passed, this bill would mean that any abortion is the equivalent of murder.  Here’s some of the wording of the bill, from the Associated Press: The bil...

White Elephant on the Prairie! Boy, things are getting worse and worse: Recently, city leaders have talked about a write-off of $872,000 that City Hall had transferred to the city-owned events center for its operations. City officials expected payback from the ¾-percent sales tax dedicated to the A...