How old is too old for the Senate? Handshakes, Colonoscopies, and North Dakota
Forget the tax returns. Think senators are too old? RELEASE THE COLONOSCOPIES.
North Dakota for Bernie. Again. And it’s nothing new!
To act as if the D-NPL firehouse caucus results are new, surprising, or out-of-character is borderline willful ignorance of the state’s political heritage.
Barnstorming the Midwest: Fargo-Moorhead
Recapping my three trips (from November 2017 to August 2018) to Fargo and Moorhead, I’m committing one of the sins that I swore I wouldn’t commit during the fits and starts of this Barnstorming series — lumping interstate city clusters together. I held off for Duluth-Superior, in part because of the wide disparity in political experience between the Twin Ports (and in part because I wrote nothing for Duluth…yet). But we turn to sugar beet country, and time and tide…
Barnstorming the Midwest: Bismarck-Mandan
I was supposed to take a trip to Bismarck this summer after my journey through Grand Forks into Canada, but travel and driving fatigue led me to skip it in favor of a week in River Falls. My punishment was leaving for Bismarck at 3:15am on January 2.
Barnstorming the Midwest: Grand Forks
In a few ways, North Dakota confirmed a lot of the cultural characteristics of the Midwest I’d long come to expect. In a few other ways, it was an entirely new world for me.
