USA Today profiles Grand Forks' Lamoureux twins, hopefuls for the 2010 U.S. Olympic hockey team.' [...] 
USA Today profiles Grand Forks' Lamoureux twins, hopefuls for the 2010 U.S. Olympic hockey team.' [...] 
Byron Dorgan draws a map of North Dakota for National Geographic Magazine. It's kinda shaky looking. [...] 
By a band I've never heard of. Kinda angsty.
According to CNBC, and tied with Washington.
Protesting and rallying are quite the thing to do nowadays. Other than famous dead people, it's about the only thing on TV lately. Despite the many people who will go out and shout about things for free, there seems to a market for people who will' [...] 
... is North Dakota? Conrad, Pomeroy, MeritCare and the state Blues all enter into discussion of health care co-ops.
We are being invaded by economic refugees, poor, tired, huddle masses yearning for call center jobs. What's more, the state is going out and recruiting these outsiders, who will no doubt reshape our culture in unknown ways (like refusing to wave at other drivers while driving' [...] 
Getting repetitive now: The Financial Times reports on the state's kick-ass economy.
Once again, North Dakota proves itself to be Bizarro America when it comes to the economy. 
A new biography of Satchel Paige was recently published. The hall-of-famer played in Bismarck briefly in the '30s and helped lead the way for integrated baseball in the 1940s.
We need to find a way to make this dinosaur thing pay. Perhaps something involving Jeff Goldblum.
Journalist from Fargo no longer pawn in international chess game.
According to this Newsweek interview, Byron Dorgan saw the financial crisis coming way back in 1999. Alas, no one listened. Especially Larry Summers. 
Nancy Eiesland, a philosopher of disability and noted theologian, was born in Cando. She died March 10, according to this obituary. Emory University, where she was an associate professor of sociology of religion and disability studies, posted a tribute. [...] 
Journalist and Fargo native Roxana Saberi's imprisonment in Iran drags on. NPR broadcast an interview with her father, Reza, and Byron Dorgan, who's working for her release. The Washington Times has also editorialized about Saberi and its treatment of journalists and bloggers.
NDSU loses in the first round to Kansas. Some related articles:
Journalist, Fargo native and former Miss North Dakota Roxana Saberi remains in custody in Iran on unspecified charges (though possibly for buying wine), despite calls for her release by Hillary Clinton and journalism groups. 
Klosterman does a quickie interview with Newsweek on his favorite books. Big revelation: Wyndmere has no black people.
The Economist is the latest to visit Stanley, the setting of North Dakota's version of "Dallas."*
Prairie Public Radio reporter Dave Thompson files a report for NPR on North Dakota's economic miracle. The secret? Microsoft and oil.
Not missed in the big inauguration coverage is an appearance by "the only Jewish legislator in North Dakota," Eliot Glassheim, at the National Jewish Inaugural Ball. Enjoying even greater prominence was a delegation from the United Tribes Technical College that marched in the inaugural [...] 
One book section, two North Dakota authors. 
Might-a spoke too soon about our indestructible economy.
As the American economy sinks deeper into the crap, North Dakota is almost recession-proof, according the front page of the New York Times.
Old: A New Yorker article from 2002 about the efforts to drop the "North" and become just "Dakota." The piece is a surprisingly even-handed look at a very stupid idea.
About a week late, as usual.
