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FBS move: it's a challenge, A.D. says
NDSU athetic director Gene Taylor expressed some surprise this morning over the news that Georgia Southern is moving its football program to the Football Bowl Subdivision level. "It's a program that'...
Posted on 4/23/12 at 10:24 AM
19 Years Ago Today
A press box, by its very nature, is almost always a quiet sanctuary in which to watch a sporting event. Members of the "press" or media are not to cheer for either team. In summary, the press box is u...
Posted on 10/27/10 at 10:06 AM
NDSU President's Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs holds Town Hall meeting to address high risk drinking
North Dakota State University invites community members to attend a Town Hall Meeting on Monday, Oct. 11, from 7-8:30 p.m. at the NDSU Alumni Center to discuss the issue of high-risk drinking with fel...
Posted on 10/7/10 at 11:51 AM
Here's 'Herbie'
Gene Hanson sent us this photo from Edgeley, N.D. Here's the story he provided: This van ended up on top of a snow bank near Teddy's Supper Club in Edgeley on New Year's Eve. Some have added a little...
Posted on 1/6/10 at 3:00 AM
East vs West: Gas prices higher in western North Dakota
May 26, 2012
Time to get real in Afghanistan
So our cerebral president has decided that the way out of Afghanistan is to plunge in further: 30,000 more U.S. soldiers, maybe 7,000 NATO troops, more bombs, more Predator missile strikes in the border regions of Pakistan and an 18-month timetable for commencing withdrawal. Or something.By Gene Lyons , December 11, 2009
Beastly treatment for beauties
Anybody who expects this column to lampoon beauty-pageant contestants has another think coming. Last time I made a satirical thrust in that direction, two women whose friendship I treasure coolly informed me they’d been Rodeo Queens of their respective county fairs. Did I have a problem with that?By Gene Lyons , November 27, 2009
Do you buy war's political theater?
Hurry, hurry. There’s no time for thinking; it’s time to act. Washington’s permanent war lobby has worked itself into a veritable lather. The proper Pentagon press leaks have been made, op-eds written, talk show commandoes deployed.By Gene Lyons , November 20, 2009
It's still about the economy, stupid
From a political standpoint, the worst thing about blaming President Obama’s perceived difficulties on racism is that there’s not a damn thing anybody can do about it.By Gene Lyons , September 18, 2009
Overreacting to Obama
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”By Gene Lyons , September 11, 2009
Knife is useless in gunfight
If President Obama expects Congress to pass a health-insurance reform bill worth signing, he’d better grasp that “bipartisanship” is a means, not an end.By Gene Lyons , September 04, 2009
Media sheep face Internet wolves
So yet another Bush administration Cabinet-level official has petitioned to get his conscience and reputation back.By Gene Lyons , August 28, 2009
Labeling protesters 'stupid racists' not a counter offensive
As a beginning rider, I once asked a racehorse trainer for advice about my quarter horse, Rusty.By Gene Lyons , August 21, 2009
Lunatics no longer on fringe
Somebody’s going to have to teach the Republican leadership that bipartisanBy Gene Lyons , August 14, 2009
Finally, a bipartisan topic: Sex
With respect to Gov. Mark Sanford, it’s probably always a mistake for a PuritanBy Gene Lyons , July 03, 2009
Bear witness to the truth in Iran
“First, do no harm.” Contrary to popular belief, the phrase doesn’t actually appear in the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians.By Gene Lyons , June 26, 2009
Sickly talk about health care fix
President Obama was elected with perhaps the best chance in a generation to reform America’s unjustBy Gene Lyons , June 19, 2009
Death as infotainment wrong
Since when do imprisoned terrorists get to hold press conferences? I speak of Scott Roeder, the accused assassin of Dr. George Tiller. Roeder’s alleged crime was also a sacrilege: He gunned the physician down during Sunday worship services at Reformation Lutheran Church, where he served as an usher.By Gene Lyons , June 12, 2009
Sotomayor a racist? Really?
If there’s anything I agree with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas about, it’s ethnic groupthink. During his 1991 confirmation hearings,By Gene Lyons , June 05, 2009
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