Modern Day Cowboy

Our country could use a few more truckers. The drivers are a group of freedom loving professional people. They include men and women of all races. You have seen many a friendly truck driver and talked to a few along the corridors and byways between the Red River and Pacific Ocean.

Bowesmont Lives

On Tuesday Merv and Phyllis Holter were having lunch at the Sugar Bowl Senior Citizen’s Center when Marlys Nelson surprised the group by bringing ice cream and cake to celebrate Merle Nelson’s 74th birthday. Judy Stellon went to her Lake Havasu winter home on Thursday.

Burgum and fellow governors call on Biden to restore energy independence

BISMARCK, N.D. (MARCH 4, 2022) – Gov. Doug Burgum today joined 24 fellow Republican governors in calling on President Biden to unleash U.S. oil and gas production and restore American energy independence to protect U.S. consumers and help U.S. allies.

Dakota Datebook

Fish and Wildlife Service by Lane Sunwall March 7, 2022 — From the stubble fields of fall farmland to the grass-lined pools of water dotting the state’s prairie, North Dakota is widely recognized for its excellent hunting and fishing opportunities.

Help Enact Term Limits on North Dakota Lawmakers and the Governor

Is there any good reason to reject term limits?

Not a morning person...

Anyone who knows me very well knows that I am not a morning person in anyway shape or form. Lyle in stark contrast is very much a morning person. It took a while, but we have learned to adjust to this fact.

Oh well, at least grandma was ok.

It was a typical Sunday morning back in the early 1980’s, Mom and Dad and I were at church, Grandpa and Grandma Van Camp were at home on the farm, we figured they just decided to stay home that particular Sunday.

COVID: From a Pandemic to a Joke

COVID has taken the United States – and especially North Dakota – from a pandemic to a joke that would be funny except so many people died needlessly in the transformation.

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1818 Announcer: “Friday, October 3, 1941, time for Valiant Lady. General Mills’ new Bisquick presents Joan Blaine in Valiant Lady, the story of a brave woman and her brilliant, but unstable, husband.

Innocent Insights

“Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.