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I recently had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the Travel Industry Conference in Grand Forks, focused on how to approach Legislators to tell the industry’s story.
Measles cases are rising in North Dakota. Track confirmed cases at the interactive map linked below.
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Episode 66 features musician Avery Hellman (Ismay), experimental folk group Empty Melon, piano-violin duo Gracie + Rachel, and Buffalo, North Dakota musician Cynthia Berget.
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  • Originating in Chicago in 1914, the movement known as “Baby Week” sought to raise awareness of the high infant mortality rate in the U.S. and to educate young mothers and girls about early childcare. Researchers from the Children’s Bureau estimated the infant mortality rate in the U.S. at nearly one in ten in the 1910s. National attention fastened on the issue, and Baby Week was born.
Each Friday on A Closer Look with the Monitor, Prairie Public's Craig Blumenshine speaks with North Dakota Monitor journalists about their reporting, giving listeners a closer look at major topics in the news, from education and state policy to energy and agriculture topics.
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An attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday has, again, highlighted the climate of political violence in the U.S. But there are still many questions about the motive.