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Starting on Monday, June 7, ETV Education's new Learning Plus+ programming will begin with the Super Sizzle Summer Series. Through July, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, parents and middle to high school students can tune-in to watch standards-based educational programming on SCETV from 1:00pm – 4:00pm.   

Polk County DFL prepares for ‘typical’ Earth Day event Submitted Crookston Times     On April 22, 1970, across America many folks went outside to do their part to end the worsening pollution of our land, water, and air.  Some marched and protested with signs, some picked up trash along shorelines and roads, some held rallies for the earth, sang songs, and signed petitions, It could be considered the beginning of the environmental movement.       It was Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisc...

Published on March 11, 2021 at 2:48pm U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema speaking with attendees at the 2019 Arizona Technology Innovation Summit at The Duce in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo credit: Flickr/Gage Skidmore) In 2018, Kyrsten Sinema became the first openly bisexual person elected to the United States Senate. Sinema is also Arizona’s first elected female senator and its first Democratic senator since 1995. A result of 2018 midterms’ so-called LGBTQ wave or “rainbow wave,” Sinema’s elec...

Doug Spade and Mike Clement We’ve always wanted a flying car. So we were super geeked back in 1968 when we saw the Taylor Aerocar III plastered across the front page of “My Weekly Reader.” A three-speed two-seater with an attachable wing and tail assembly that converted car to plane in just 10 minutes. Comfortable, stable in flight and top airspeed of 135 miles an hour. Alas, our paltry 10-cent weekly allowance put the $10,000 price tag just out of reach.  Not that it mattered. Only one...

 College,Covid, and Questions:  Tips and Advice for Incoming Freshmen,Undergraduates, Transfer Students, and Parents. Growing up Suzy playedsports participating in leagues, playing in gyms, and gathering theneighborhood kids to join in pickup games until the streetlights weretoo dim to light the sporting site.   She launched her writingcareer as a newspaper sports editor. During that job, Suzyinterviewed numerous coaches, athletes, and fans about sports,putting complicated games into simple...

Naima Coster, author of What’s Mine and Yours ( Photo credit: Sylvie Rosokoff) It has been more than 60 years since Brown v. Board of Education legally desegregated U.S. schools, but schools are as segregated now as they’ve ever been. In 2014, Nikole Hannah-Jones, then a reporter for ProPublica, opened many people’s eyes when she chronicled how the segregation embedded in Ferguson, Missouri’s school system contributed to the untimely murder of Michael Brown Jr. in 2014. Since then, ...

What Longtime Vegetarians Think About the Plant-Based Meat Boom Margaret Eby Were in a golden age of fake meat. It seems like every week a new pea protein-based meat substitute comes onto the market, each one promising to mimic the flavor and texture of meat better than the last one. As more people reduce their meat consumption for health or environmental reasons, companies like Impossible Meats and Beyond Meat are becoming household names.  But meat alternatives like tofu, tem...

February 4, 2021 On the western edge of South Dakota, Aimee Uhrig, RN, BSN, CCM, lives near an old gold rush town steeped in American history, not far from Mount Rushmore, American Indian reservations, and the rugged Black Hills National Forest. Carolyn Apanavage, BSN, RN-BC, CEN, of Managed Care Advisors works as a medical case manager for the UMB COVID-19 Hotline from her New Market home as her son, Brayden, attends virtual school in the background. Matthew Paul Dagastino/Uni...

Fantastic Frankey, the woman behind the Fanboy Fighter (Photo credit: Courtesy of Fantastic Frankey) In 2021, pop culture is ripe with TV shows and movies inspired by nerd culture. From HBO’s Watchmen and Lovecraft Country to Disney+’s impressive new slate full of Marvel spinoffs, nerdom is having a moment, one that’s often being dictated by white geeks with fixed ideas of who can participate in and lead fandom. Whether it’s men questioning Megan Thee Stallion’s anime credentials or...

New Grand Forks legislators Claire Cory and Zachary Ista adjust to life in Bismarck Claire Cory and Zachary Ista both came into politics through uncommon paths. Now that theyre at the Capitol, theyre conducting their first session amid another unique circumstance – a national pandemic. 7:00 am, Jan. 30, 2021 × Rep. Zachary Ista is representing Grand Forks District 43. He was appointed to the position in 2020 following the resignation of former Rep. Matt Eidson. (Sydney...