The 50th State’s Golden Touch
July 08, 2009
Filed in: North Dakota
Not to brag, but being a 50th State state (AK, HI, ND or KS) elevates you to a status in the national media you’d otherwise never achieve.
Just consider: mere weeks after we visited Alaska, its otherwise little known Governor burst upon the national stage. I don’t need to tell you which...
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The Land of Iceberg Lettuce
July 06, 2009
Filed in: North Dakota
First, the positive: If you like beef, or other kinds of red meat like elk or bison, ND is the place for you. We wound up eating more beef than we usually do, for reasons I will elucidate below, and it was all excellent, even the lowliest burger in the smallest town. (Washburn, I’m looking at...
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Bailing on the Badlands
July 02, 2009
Filed in: North Dakota
Last night about 7, I made the executive decision to cancel our last night in Medora and head back to Bismarck a day early. Don’t get me wrong – the North Dakota Badlands are amazing, and we have had an incredible two days, but the boys are tapped out.
Yesterday, we went mountain biking, which...
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Drift Prairie
June 30, 2009
Filed in: North Dakota
So we’ve had three lovely days here in the Bismarck-Mandan metropolis. Setting aside the terrifying clouds and 50 mph winds that greeted us at the airport, and the all-caps severe storm warnings scrolling across the screen in our hotel room when we checked in (they’d had a tornado touch down less...
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Swing State? You Betcha?
June 28, 2009
Filed in: North Dakota
No, North Dakota is not a swing state politically, it’s deep deep red and always has been. But it’s been swinging back and forth on the Tracy approval-meter, thusly:
First Swing: So all winter and spring, the whole 50th State enterprise was looking shaky. The enormous sums we plunked on the...