The industrial hemp debate, for now, is over.  Because industrial hemp is related to marijuana the DEA will not allow the two farmers from North Dakota who hold state licenses to grow the potentially lucrative crop–even though industrial hemp doesn’t contain enough THC to be used as a drug.
The farmers have a new challenge before them:  how to get […]

Between attending press conferences in Arizona and setting up meetings with officials from Turkey, Carla Anderson answers e-mails.  She holds conference calls.  She golfs (it’s a new hobby), flies to Washington and other locations, and writes grants.
Anderson also attends her son’s ball games, keeps in touch with her eldest son (now in Bournemouth, England), continues her service on […]

According to a Minot Daily News article by Jill Schramm, a combined choir from North Dakota, Montana and Canada will perform a Christmas concert this weekend.  This year will mark the 37th year that the combined international choir will perform.
The choir is scheduled to perform in Estevan, Sask. on Saturday and in Crosby, North Dakota on Sunday.  Director Ed Retzer […]

After about five days away from my computer, I came back to find a wonderful Bismarck Tribune article by Tony Spilde on the creator of NoDak Films.  The owner, Nathan Anderson, is a North Dakota native with a unique mission.  He wants to produce films that show the world what a wonderful place North Dakota […]

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