North Dakota Politics

2008-11-17T01:39:00.000-08:00

North Dakota Politics: Martin Luther King

2008-11-05T22:38:00.000-08:00

By: Kirsten Jackson

This is definately a historic moment….someone that was left out of the picture above is Martin Luther King.

Obama is going to be a historical figure and I have felt since the beginning that he is our Martin Luther King. That doesn’t have anything to do with the color of his skin. Personally, I am really tired of hearing that he is black….what about the other part of him that is white? Why is that always forgotten?

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North Dakota Politics: Cass County Voting Locations 2008

2008-11-01T19:07:00.000-07:00

Cass County Voting Locations 2008

The following is a list of the voting locations in Cass County. Note sure where to go? Or, use the Address Lookup Tool to find your voting location.

Fargo District: 11 \| Precinct: 1101 \|	1101 Olivet Lutheran Church 1330 University Drive South, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 11 \| Precinct: 1102 \|	1102 Doublewood Inn 3333 13th Avenue South, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
West Fargo District: 13 \| Precinct: 1301 \|	1301 Westside Elem School 945 7th Ave W, West Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
West Fargo District: 13 \| Precinct: 1302 \|	1302 West Fargo City Hall 800 4th Ave E, West Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
West Fargo District: 13 \| Precinct: 1303 \|	1303 Veterans Memorial Arena 1201 7th Ave E, West Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Page District: 20 \| Precinct: 2001 \|	2001 Page Senior Center 124 Morton Avenue, Page	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Hunter District: 20 \| Precinct: 2002 \|	2002 Northern Cass School 16021 18th St Se, Hunter	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 21 \| Precinct: 2101 \|	2101 RDJ Rec Center 1104 2nd Avenue South, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 21 \| Precinct: 2102 \|	2102 Fargo Civic Center 207 4th Street North, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Page District: 22 \| Precinct: 2201 \|	2201 Page Senior Center 124 Morton Avenue, Page	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Arthur District: 22 \| Precinct: 2202 \|	2202 Arthur Community Hall 550 Main St, Arthur	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Buffalo District: 22 \| Precinct: 2203 \|	2203 Buffalo Community Center 507 Main St, Buffalo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Argusville District: 22 \| Precinct: 2204 \|	2204 Argusville Fire Hall 107 Northern Dr, Argusville	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Casselton District: 22 \| Precinct: 2205 \|	2205 Casselton Governor's Inn 2050 Governor's Drive, Casselton	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Mapleton District: 22 \| Precinct: 2206 \|	2206 Mapleton Comm Center 615 2nd St, Mapleton	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
West Fargo District: 22 \| Precinct: 2207 \|	2207 Reed Twp/West Fargo 1201 7th Ave E, West Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Leonard District: 22 \| Precinct: 2208 \|	2208 Leonard Senior Center 20 Main St, Leonard	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Kindred District: 22 \| Precinct: 2209 \|	2209 Kindred City Hall 31 5th Ave N, Kindred	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
West Fargo District: 22 \| Precinct: 2210 \|	2210 Shiloh Evangelical Church 2200 Shiloh St, West Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Horace District: 22 \| Precinct: 2211 \|	2211 Horace Senior Center 214 Thue Ct, Horace	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Hickson District: 22 \| Precinct: 2212 \|	2212 Hickson Community Center Main St, Hickson	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 27 \| Precinct: 2701 \|	2701 West Acres -Main Entrance 3920 13th Avenue South, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
West Fargo District: 27 \| Precinct: 2702 \|	2702 Meadowridge Bible Chapel 2198 2nd Avenue East, West Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 27 \| Precinct: 2703 \|	2703 Southwest Hockey Arena 4404 23rd Ave S, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 27 \| Precinct: 2704 \|	2704 Calvary United Methodist 4575 45th Street South, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 27 \| Precinct: 2705 \|	2705 Riverview Place 5300 12th St S, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 41 \| Precinct: 4101 \|	4101 Bethel Evangelical Church 2702 30th Ave S, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 41 \| Precinct: 4102 \|	4102 First Assembly of God 3401 25th St S, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 44 \| Precinct: 4401 \|	4401 El Zagel Shrine 1429 3rd Street North, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 44 \| Precinct: 4402 \|	4402 Trollwood Village Mall 3105 Broadway North, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 45 \| Precinct: 4501 \|	4501 FargoDome 1800 University Drive North, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 45 \| Precinct: 4502 \|	4502 Knollbrook Covenant Churc 3030 Broadway North, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Harwood District: 45 \| Precinct: 4503 \|	4503 Harwood Community Center 210 Freedland Dr, Harwood	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 46 \| Precinct: 4601 \|	4601 Prairie Rose Inn & Confer 1340 21st Avenue South, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM
Fargo District: 46 \| Precinct: 4602 \|	4602 Atonement Lutheran Church 4601 University Drive South, Fargo	Hours: 7:00AM-8:00PM

North Dakota Politics

2008-10-31T22:31:00.000-07:00

North Dakota Politics: 'Boston Legal' Gets Fired Up Over Election

2008-10-31T21:17:00.000-07:00

'Boston Legal' Gets Fired Up Over Election
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2008-10-31T20:44:00.000-07:00

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Suicide jumper left 'note for Obama'...

State employee says she was ordered to check out 'Joe the Plumber'...

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North Dakota Politics:Next Generation

2008-10-25T18:11:00.000-07:00

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North Dakota Politics: We are in trouble.

2008-10-25T14:15:00.000-07:00

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North Dakota Politics: The Great Financial Meltdown

2008-10-20T21:56:00.000-07:00

The Great Financial Meltdown would not have surprised the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who died in 1946, for he thought that this was exactly how unregulated markets would behave. The New Economics, as Keynesian economics was known in the United States until it became the Obsolete Economics, was designed to prevent such turbulence. It held that governments should vary taxes and spending to offset any tendency for inflation to rise or output to fall.
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North Dakota Politics:Homer Tries to Vote.

2008-10-02T23:15:00.000-07:00

North Dakota Politics: Biden Vs Palin

2008-09-30T21:47:00.000-07:00

"Biden needs to be ready for two Sarah Palins: the smiling one and the attacking one. Actually, she is pretty good at doing both at the same time. Joe should not go after her at all, but only after McCain. And while he is doing it, Joe cannot adopt a posture of being aggressive toward her or, worse, condescending. He attacks McCain only on the economy -- the GOP ticket's weakest spot. As he does so, Biden talks about his blue-collar background." Read More here

North Dakota Politics: Part #3

2008-09-29T23:36:00.000-07:00

North Dakota Politics Part 2

2008-09-18T01:52:00.000-07:00

Gives insight to why so many financial instituions are failing such as American International Group, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch.

North Dakota Politics: How Money Really Works Part 1

2008-09-18T01:08:00.000-07:00

I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States.

North Dakota Politics: Sarah Palin: Hot Chick and Tough Cookie

2008-09-16T22:20:00.000-07:00

Fargo ND. I find something deeply disturbing about "that woman." It's interesting how many have taken to using that when referring to Sarah Palin.

It's not eerie inflections straight out of the movie, Fargo. It's not when she dropped her first nuc-u-lar, and my mind screamed "sweet lord, please, not four more years of mispronunciation of a force that could turn us all into cosmic lint."

It's not the odorous political flotsam that trails behind her -- the librarian incident, the trooper incident, the bridge to nowhere incident or anything else that might be discovered by the industrious dumpster-divers from the National Enquirer.

It's not just the fact that we have seen all this for eight torturous years.

Go down the line to your far right on every issue: gay rights, reproductive rights, stem-cell research, guns, Russia, Iran. She rewards her friends (without regard to qualification) and punishes her enemies (political or personal.) She insulates herself with a fleecy layer or friends, family and true believers who make sure that dissenting opinion and inconvenient reality do not intrude on her frontier certainty.

Know the difference between George Bush and Sarah Palin? Lipstick.

I can deal with all that.

What scared me as I listened to her tightly choreographed presentations -- and that includes the "Charlie" interviews -- is the sense of a cold and calculating soullessness, an inability to project the person beneath the politician because the person has been tossed overboard long ago.

I look in her eyes and get a feeling that, if you cross her, she would drop you as easily as she would a wolf from a helicopter.

What scares me even more is that she is all part of the plan. Maybe it's true that John McCain picked her in one of his maverick moments. It's more likely that they went out to find a gun toting, God-fearing woman who could get the get the conservative crazies off their backs and, with a little buffing and polishing, might even bring some wandering Hillary women into camp.

They found a narrative, subtracted and added as needed, wound her up and sent her straight at us -- political baggage, obvious inexperience and all -- saying: "Go ahead. Try to stop her."

Credit due, she has played the part beautifully -- hot chick and tough cookie. Even Real Time host Bill Maher seems thrown off his usually reliable game. He admitted that he was so unnerved by Palin's convention speech that, even though he doesn't make political donations, he cut a check for Obama that night. Said Maher: "She is scary."

At the Convention, she let her newborn be passed around like a bong at Snoop Dog's House. She allowed the very private act of sending her oldest son off to war into a photo op. She will continue to say she killed the bridge -- like Bush said Saddam and Bin Laden were racquetball buddies -- until enough people believe it.

She is tough, calculating, photogenic and female. Unless we want to see her a septuagenarian heartbeat away from the presidency, we best take her seriously.

North Dakota Politics

2008-09-16T22:15:00.000-07:00

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North Dakota Politics: What the Hell is Going on Guys?

2008-09-16T22:09:00.000-07:00

Insurer American International Group struggled for survival a day after a financial tsunami swept away investment bank Lehman Brothers and forced the sale of rival Merrill Lynch in the biggest financial industry shake-up since the Great Depression.

North Dakota Politics

2008-09-16T21:36:00.001-07:00

That scandal and the S&L crisis are the closest thing we have in recent history to match the wall street corruption McCain seams so rabid about the last couple of days. hmmm

Barack Obama in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Watch Full Video

2008-04-05T14:15:00.000-07:00

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Two months after North Dakota's primary, the state's Democratic party still managed to attract Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for the opening day of its convention Friday.

"Some people think the Democrats can't win in North Dakota, so we shouldn't put too much time in here," Obama told a crowd of more than 15,000. "I tell you what, we didn't fly over North Dakota. We landed."

Clinton, who spoke an hour later, pledged to stand up for middle- and working-class voters in that state and elsewhere.

"Tonight, somewhere in North Dakota and across America, janitors are cleaning up, waitresses are pouring coffee, police officers are standing guard. They need a president who will stand with them," she said. "Tonight, families are sitting down to talk about how to keep the farm in the family or how to keep up with the bills that are mounting. How to afford the rising gas prices, commuting to work over long distances. They need a president who will deliver for them."

Obama and Clinton both stepped away from Pennsylvania and other states with looming votes to speak to the North Dakota Democrats.

"We can't afford to give John McCain the chance to carry on George Bush's can't-do, won't-do, won't-even-try style of politics," Obama said. "We are a better country than that."

North Dakota's senior senator, Kent Conrad, was an early Obama supporter. The state ended up backing Obama overwhelmingly in its Feb. 5 caucuses. This weekend, Democrats will decide which people are sent as delegates to the party's national convention.

That creates the chance for last-minute maneuvering by the Clinton and Obama campaigns to pick up an extra delegate or two. Clinton recently argued that pledged delegates aren't truly required by party rules to vote for a particular candidate.

The North Dakota delegates determined by caucus are split 8-5 for Obama. In addition, six of the state's seven unpledged superdelegates are backing the Illinois senator.

In his speech, delivered in a packed football arena, Obama mocked the Bush administration and stressed the midwestern roots of his mother and her parents. He even tried to adopt the local slang by exclaiming "Uff da" — a Scandinavian phrase that roughly translates to "wow."

Obama also mocked himself when accepting a hockey stick in honor of the University of North Dakota's team, the Fighting Sioux. He promised to give it a place of honor in his office but never to use it "because my hockey game is worse than my bowling."

For her part, Clinton vowed to press on with her campaign even though she narrowly trails Obama in the popular vote and among pledged delegates.

She again resisted calls to drop out of the race and compared herself to the university's hockey team, which is headed to the national college championship tournament.

"Can you imagine if the Fighting Sioux had played the Gophers to a tie on Sunday and then given up?" she said to boos. "They kept fighting and that's why they are going to the Frozen Four in Denver next week. I'm still fighting, and if you stand with me tomorrow we will fight on to victory."