• Franz, Chapman and the Minard Hall Collapse Behind the Scene.
• NDSU, however one defines it, hasn't done anything wrong: only two individuals, one, the Fargo Forum's man of the year
• This coming Monday. the mostly unqualified NDSU Presidential Search Committee will announce which of the under qualified candidates it prefers to be NDSU's next president.
• Steve Swiontek , chair of the presidential search committee at NDSU, even though not being formally associated with the University, announced the finalists for the position.
• American's accomplishment should not be belittled. We scored in sports for which the podium had been only viewed from a distance by US athletes.
• Cormac McCarthy(Brokeback Mountain, No Country for Old Men), The Road, is no playing on the off Broadway screen at the Fargo Theatre.
• Obama Pays North Dakota Big in 2009 Healthcare Debate
• This decline has been going on at NDSU for well over thirty years, and I see it as a crisis.
• Condition of NDSU is Bleak....Creeping Meatballism
• Graduation North Dakota State University 2009

McCain’s response From spokesman Brian Rogers, the truce of McCain’s television ad apparently over 5 min after the speech was given: “Tonight, Americans witnessed a misleading speech that was so fundamentally at odds with the meager record of Barack Obama. When the temple comes down, the fireworks end, and the words are over, the facts remain: Senator Obama still has no record of... 

The Mile High Stadium was packed with Democratic Frenzy. The dawning of a new day in Denver, Colorado according to Sen. Dick Durbin, Introducing now Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Barracks acceptance speech… with profound Humility and great gratitude I accept your nomination Before more than 70000 people in Denver Excerpts of Barack Obama’s speech, as prepared for... 

Newly-nominated Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden on Wednesday counted on his long resume of foreign policy experience to slam the Bush administration and link Republican presidential candidate John McCain to an entrenched Iraq war policy and threatens Russia in a War Hawk position. “Our country is less secure and more isolated than at any time in recent history,” Biden said. “The... 

Bill Clinton Still Has Swagger… greeted by an extended round of applause as he walked on stage to deliver his speech that lasted nearly three minutes. Watch as Clinton tries to calm down the enthusiastic crowd. I am honored to be here tonight to support Barack Obama. And to warm up the crowd for Joe Biden, though as you’ll soon see, he doesn’t need any help from me. I love Joe Biden,... 

North Dakota State University could hit 13,000 students for the first time this fall. The university reported 12,871 students on the first full day of classes Tuesday. That’s 654 more students from this time last year, or a 5 percent increase. The enrollment growth is driven by a record 2,648 freshmen, 473 more than last year. NDSU’s headcount is expected to fluctuate before it becomes final on... 

Lets Face it Hillary Hit it out of the Ball Park. DENVER — Looking like presidential Timber, Hillary Rodham Clinton summoned the millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House Tuesday night, and drew thunderous applause at the Democratic National Convention when she declared her one-time rival is “my candidate and he must be our president.” “We... 

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More details about the suspected plot to assassinate Obama come trickling in as the police arrest a fourth person in connection with the possible plan. The LA Times has the story. We knew then that authorities in suburban Aurora had stopped a pickup truck for swerving between lanes early Sunday morning in what they thought was a routine drunk driving incident. But in the rented vehicle of Tharin Gartrell,... 

The Chicago Tribune reports on a brutal baseball game between the US and China that featured five American batters getting hit by Chinese pitches: Our relations with China were nearly broken at the plate. A near-brawl with our Olympic hosts in a baseball game won 9-1 by the U.S. team Monday night resulted in an unexpected outbreak of tension for the international pastime. Three members of China’s... 

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Inflation Takes Steam Out of Rise in Spending Fargo ND, Consumers spent more in June, but only because the things they bought cost more. Driven primarily by energy and food prices, inflation grew 0.8 percent over May, the biggest monthly increase since September 2005, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported on Monday. Spending, by comparison, grew just 0.6 percent in June. “Inflation is intensifying,... 

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Busted! FARGO – Former assistant U.S. attorney and local defense attorney Dennis Fisher has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a hunting knife from Sportsman’s Warehouse just before noon Friday. A loss prevention officer spotted a man take a knife and confronted him outside the store, located at 4901 13th Ave. S., about 11:50 a.m. Friday, Fargo police Sgt. Jeff Skuza said. The man, later identified... 

Lets Drill Baby. Fargo, ND. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that’s what it takes to enact a comprehensive policy to foster fuel-efficient autos and develop alternate energy sources. Shifting from his previous opposition to expanded offshore drilling, the Illinois senator told a Florida...