Bob CollinsWhen the last of the strip clubs close, an oil boom is officially over. In Williston, N.D., the oil boom is officially over. Read more →
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Tag: Oil Patch
We first met Todd and Donna Morse when they were sandbagging against the Red River in 2009. They left Moorhead a few years ago for better times in the Oil Patch. Then the oil boom went bust. Read more →
Perhaps you’ve seen these satellite images of North Dakota in which the Bakken Oil Patch is illuminated by all of the gas flares from the wells. They’re misleading, University of North Dakota researchers say. Read more →
The Oil Patch isn’t going anywhere, at least not yet. Read more →
North Dakota’s oil boom is being helped leaders looking away from the environmental disaster that is unfolding in the state, the New York Times reported this weekend. Read more →
Should the government pay you to be alive, Judging a person by their cover, the homeless patch of North Dakota, it takes a village to keep a 102-year-old-woman in her home, and why on earth do we live on this sport on earth? Read more →
Take the tap test, the challenges of finding someone to take the Vikings’ job, from Antarctica with love, Idle No More v. Mall of America, and how violent is Chicago? About as violent as Minneapolis. Read more →
There’ve been a fair number of news stories lately about the concern over oil trains hauling crude out of North Dakota. This afternoon, the fears were confirmed when a BNSF oil train derailed and exploded near Casselton. We're hearing flames are approaching about 100 feet into the air in that #Casselton derailment pic.twitter.com/fH33THyv05 — Kyle Read more →
Was the storm a ‘federal disaster,’ that thing that good people do, the Hotshots on climate change, how to be your own big brother, and North Dakota’s crime boom. Read more →