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Presidential Elections and Historic Bridge Preservation: An Author's Perspective
To start off this column, I would like to start with a quote in connection with the results of the Presidential Elections: "When you give someone a Herculean task, which takes a lot of time to compl...
Posted on 11/9/12 at 9:35 AM
Obama to Minot, North Dakota?
_______________________ Editor's note: ABC News reported that President Obama might come to Minot today. However, Forum Communications learned through North Dakota Senator John Hoeven's office that...
Posted on 6/28/11 at 10:03 AM
President to appoint ELCA bishop Hanson to serve on council
President Barack Obama will appoint Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Bishop Mark Hanson to serve on the President's Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, an ELCA press...
Posted on 2/7/11 at 10:21 AM
Updated story: Obama calls Hoeven, delays turkey pardon
(UPDATED 4:42 p.m.) BISMARCKThe fate of a 19-week-old turkey was left hanging in the balance Tuesday when Gov. John Hoeven had to leave his annual turkey pardon to take a phone call from President Bar...
Posted on 11/23/10 at 5:44 PM
That’s bull
One of the perks as a reporter is going to events and taking pictures, or in the case of Friday night, trying to take pictures. I was just at Bull A Rama at the Civic Center trying to get some shots...
Posted on 10/22/10 at 7:44 PM
Obama seeks to avoid sequester with short-term fix
President Barack Obama is asking Congress for a short-term deficit reduction package of spending cuts and tax revenue that will delay the effective date of steeper automatic cuts now scheduled to kick in on March 1. Obama said the looming cuts would be economically damaging and must be avoided.February 05, 2013
Obama decides not to extend term of jobs council
President Barack Obama is letting his jobs council expire, cutting off one source of input from business leaders while unemployment remains stubbornly high.January 31, 2013
Obama: Tough call on letting a son play football
President Barack Obama is a big football fan with two daughters, but if he had a son, he says he'd "have to think long and hard" before letting him play because of the physical toll the game takes.January 28, 2013
Democrats may stand in Obama's way on gun measures
As the Senate prepares to begin debating new gun control measures, some of President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats are poised to frustrate his efforts to enact the most sweeping limits on weapons in decades.January 26, 2013
Court says Obama appointments violate constitution
President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate last year to appoint three members of the National Labor Relations Board, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a far-reaching decision that could severely limit a chief executive's powers to make recess appointments.January 25, 2013
Democrats reintroduce assault weapons ban
Congressional Democrats are reintroducing legislation to ban assault weapons but the measure faces long odds even after last month's mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn.January 24, 2013
Obama: Privilege to use King's Bible in inaugural
President Barack Obama says it was a privilege to take the oath of office using a Bible that had been owned by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.January 21, 2013
Obama steps into his second term
By David Espo, Associated Press , January 21, 2013
D.C. lowers turnout projections for inauguration
WASHINGTON — District of Columbia officials have lowered their turnout estimate for Monday's presidential inauguration.By By Eric Tucker, Associated Press , January 20, 2013
Obama, Biden sworn in for second term Sunday before public ceremony Monday
WASHINGTON — On the cusp of his second term, President Barack Obama solemnly honored the nation's fallen soldiers Sunday before taking the oath of office in an intimate White House ceremony, a swearing-in ritual he will repeat 24 hours later before a massive crowd at the Capitol.By By Julie Pace, Associated Press , January 20, 2013
Will Obama's order lead to surge in gun research?
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second problem and far less about the first. A scarcity of research on how to prevent gun violence has left policymakers shooting in the dark as they craft gun control measures without much evidence of what works.By Marilynn Marchione, AP Chief Medical Writer , January 17, 2013
Obama: Gun control specifics to come within days
By Julie Pace, Associated Press , January 14, 2013
Obama won't support building 'Death Star'
WASHINGTON (AP) — A "Death Star" won't be a part of the U.S. military's arsenal any time soon.By Associated Press , January 12, 2013
Obama's Hawaii vacation: Day 1
How President Barack Obama spent the first day of his holiday vacation in Hawaii on Wednesday:January 02, 2013
Obama's 2nd inauguration to draw smaller crowds
WASHINGTON (AP) — Visitors coming to the nation's capital for President Barack Obama's second inauguration can't stay in the one place President Ronald Reagan's family once called an eight-star hotel. That spot is the White House, and it's booked for the next four years.By Jessica Gresko, Associated Press , December 26, 2012
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