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...
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Travel Stunts from Days of Yore
June 09, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Here’s a 50th State-appropriate tidbit ganked in its entirety from The Writer’s Almanac. I like the bit about women getting “worked up” at more than 20 mph.
It was on this day in 1909 that the first woman to drive across the United States, Alice Huyler Ramsey, left New York City for San...
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Swellville, You’re Killing Me
April 10, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
It’s irony week here in Swellville, which, ironically, coincides with Holy Week. Last year I went all penitent; this year, the you’re-gonna-be-sorry karma is coming to me. To wit:
1) There’s been a pretty much steady stream of teacher hate going around town since the beginning of the budget...
