Columnist Index

 

Bookreview  (top)

'White Tombs' is promising start to detective series
Title: "White Tombs"

'Dear American Airlines' proves to be entertaining
Title: "Dear American Airlines"

'Dakota Cipher' places mystery in familiar settings
Title: "The Dakota Cipher"

Darnay  (top)

10 things you should know about the Net
Every year or so, I compile a list of things involving the Internet that people should be aware of or already know.

Duggan  (top)

Group asks about Dorgan vs. Hoeven
A conservative interest group known as Common Sense Issues polled potential North Dakota voters last month to test the waters for potential challengers to North Dakota's Democratic congressional delegation.

Eckroth  (top)

Park trail growing in Mandan
Advertising for bids on the newest leg of the Mandan Park District trail began this week. The bids should be awarded by August, and it is scheduled for completion in October.

Fedorchak  (top)

Money machines save the day
My 5-year-old was sitting at the table, counting his jar of money for about the 19th time in two days.

Gehring  (top)

A little help and a thank you
Brian Gehring
Bismarck Tribune

Guest  (top)

Memories through our kids
My family and I live along a dirt road that isn't heavily traveled. The neighborhood is wedged between two crop fields, filled in the summertime with wheat, corn or beans.

Hagen  (top)

Jackson made an impact in short time
The world said goodbye to Michael Jackson this week, at a memorial service broadcast Tuesday across major networks and cable television, and streamed all over the Internet. Hundreds of millions tuned in, making Jackson's funeral one of the most-watched in history.

Herzog  (top)

Lessons from behind the bar
I learned so much during my year's stint as a bar waitress in college.

Irby  (top)

Don't trust these 'polls' about Hoeven, Dorgan
If the governor runs for the Senate, would you vote for John Hoeven over Byron Dorgan, who, by the way, doesn't use sanitizer wipes before or after pushing grocery carts?

Jenkinson  (top)

How it was in America on July 4
Do you remember those old Life magazine stories that attempted to create a slice of life profile of the United States? They were usually titled "A Day in the Life of America." They featured sentences like, "At 7:04 a.m. in Cleveland, Ohio, a convoy of 23 garbage trucks at the Cuyahoga County Sanitation Facility begin to fan out into the city's 48 boroughs, to collect what will before day's end be a mountain of 497 tons of trash."

Scarlett  (top)

Even we hippies grow up
I spent a bit of time on Facebook over the long holiday weekend, and I noticed an interesting trend. The theme of this Fourth of July, it seems, was mea culpa.





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