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It all began with some family-tree sleuthing.

In an open letter to the the Director of the Hoover Institute, the President, the Provost and the Board of Trustees, 90 Stanford faculty members call for a public accounting of Rupert Murdoch's appointment to the Hoover's Board of Overseers. They write, "we wonder what kind of signal his presence sends to our students, who we are training to seek the truth, and to our colleagues on the faculty, who are constantly held to the highest standards of honesty, truth and responsible scholarship."

Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, gave passionate remarks at a union organizing roundtable held Thursday night, June 2, at the Fargo Theatre. Smalls backed the idea of unionizing Fargo's Amazon facilities and said he hopes to return someday to celebrate a union victory.

Buoyed by union victories at national companies like Starbucks, Amazon and Target, the organized labor movement is once again on the rise. Will that trend reach North Dakota and Minnesota? Labor leaders are optimistic it will.

As the nationwide Starbucks unionization wave gains momentum, Minnesota’s first of five union elections (so far) is a 14-1 success