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JOHN STRAND: Taking Liberty — North Dakota Nasty

We have a huge public relations problem here in the Peace Garden State. While the world was watching the DAPL pipeline controversy, North Dakota failed abysmally in influencing the narrative telling people about us. What they see casts us in anything but a positive light. We need to acknowledge this. The movie Fargo gave us an example of how far good …


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TONY J BENDER — Feds Ask For Halt To DAPL Construction Near Lake Oahe

This is Tony J Bender’s report that appears in today’s Ashley (N.D.) Tribune and Wishek (N.D.) Star. In a stunning pushback against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s decision Friday to deny an injunction to stop the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, the Departments of Justice and Interior were joined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to override that decision. “Construction …