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ANN BAILEY: Spring is alive 
In spring, the countryside is alive with sights, smells and sounds. After winter, a quieter, less colorful season on the farm, I feel like my senses, too, are coming to life again.
By Ann Bailey , May 19, 2012
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ALWAYS IN SEASON: Cliff swallows forecast summer’s arrival
Mid-May always brings a rush of new arrivals in the bird world. The late-moving sparrows showed up last week. So did the Baltimore orioles, ruby-throated hummingbirds and a big suite of warblers, sometimes as many as a dozen species in a single day. But the most notable arrival, for me, was the cliff swallow.
By Mike Jacobs , May 19, 2012
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SOCIAL SECURITY Q & A: Retirement benefit amount based on best 35 years of work
Q. I might have opportunity to stop working by age 60. If I do, will my future Social Security retirement benefits be lower compared to if I continued working?
By Howard Kossover , May 18, 2012
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RALPH KINGSBURY: N.D. energy growth shows free market at work
Keynesian economics made America the greatest power the world had ever seen. That was the conventional wisdom about 50 years ago. At that time, most students — this writer included — tended to accept the prevailing theories of every field of study. Keynes was right about anything dealing with economics; Freud was right about psychology, and so on.
May 18, 2012
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DOUG LEIER: Fewer deer mean fewer licenses
North Dakota’s lower deer and pheasant populations in recent years have generated many discussions. In terms of recent history, the numbers are smaller, but compare the deer license allocation from the 1970s, or pheasant harvest numbers from the early 1980s, and hunters have a little more to consider.
By Doug Leier , May 17, 2012
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OUR OPINION: Monopoly mustn’t become complacency at Altru
Two points regarding the Herald’s recent news stories about Altru Health System: First, it was good to see Altru drop the fiction that its purchase of the Doctors Hospital property had nothing to do with eliminating the competition.
By Tom Dennis , May 17, 2012
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MARILYN HAGERTY: Treasures lurk in town, farm auctions in merry month of May
If you’re looking for some lightning rod globes or a weed eater, you might find it at the Berg Auction Sale Sunday in Halstad, Minn.
By Marilyn Hagerty , May 17, 2012
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MARILYN HAGERTY: On Syttende mai, an Uff da for the closing of the Bronze Boot
Dear Shirley, Even though we are Danish, I have to admit that the Norwegians think of everything. This is Syttende mai — the Norwegian Independence Day — and they are serving lunch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at their lodge at 1401 Ninth Ave. S. in Grand Forks.
By Marilyn Hagerty , May 16, 2012
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RYAN BAKKEN: More than walleyes offered as tourism options
I grew up one block from The World’s Largest Oxcart, Crookston’s No. 1 tourist attraction for decades. Even as a grade-schooler, I was baffled why travelers were lured off U.S. Highway 2 to this oxcart-on-steroids.
By Ryan Bakken , May 12, 2012
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ANN BAILEY: Mother’s Day brings back many memories
Today, Mother’s Day, seems like a good time to reflect on my mom.
Though she died in September, there isn’t a day that goes by that I am not reminded of her, not once but many times, or that someone who knew her doesn’t mention to me how much they miss her.
By Ann Bailey , May 12, 2012
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PRAIRIE GARDENER: Wisconsin botanical garden is a beauty
Beauty, inspiration and education are terms that can be used to describe the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Wisconsin’s capital city. On a recent bus tour, the Prairie Gardener along with 49 others from this region who were headed back home from an East Coast break with Judy’s Leisure Tours of Fargo, had a chance to visit both the outdoor and indoor gardens. With stormy weather possible that day, the choices ensured at least one venue would work.
By Darrel Koehler , May 12, 2012
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IN THE SPIRIT: Their circle is unbroken
Last Sunday, after morning Mass and lunch, 10 women returned to the peaceful sanctuary of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in East Grand Forks. They wore identical cross pendants and placed their chairs upfront in a semi-circle.
Natalie Mack Wavra no longer joins them, but because of her, this circle of faith, family and friendship will forever be unbroken. In quietness, the prayers began.
By Naomi Dunavan , May 11, 2012
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DOUG LEIER: It’s time of year when thoughts turn to fishing
It’s hard to believe when I glance at the calendar that it’s May, and not June or maybe July. The early arrival of spring-like temperatures after a mild winter can do that. So, while open water fishing has been viable since mid-March, between work, school and other responsibilities, not everyone has yet made their initial fishing excursion.
By Doug Leier , May 10, 2012
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OUR OPINION: Here’s hoping the Boot stays alive and kicking
As the world now knows, Herald columnist Marilyn Hagerty sometimes writes in “North Dakota Nice” code. If she devotes most of her column to a restaurant’s napkins, decor, parking and other nonessentials, that might be because she’s too polite to write about the food.
But no one has needed codebooks to understand Marilyn’s columns about the Bronze Boot.
By Tom Dennis , May 10, 2012
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MARILYN HAGERTY: Moose are scarce; Mattracks move gingerly around Karlstad
You go north on Interstate 29 until you get to Drayton, N.D. You take a right and keep going east on Highway 11 until you hit Karlstad, Minn. You aren’t in Karlstad long before you realize the biggest show in town is the Mattracks factory. Well, that and Wiktel Co., run by the Wikstrom family. It serves much of northwest Minnesota. Matt Brazier, 31, was 12 years old when he drew a picture of rubber tracks on tires and asked his father, Glen Brazier, if they could do that. He said they could. They did. And now there is a factory in Karlstad that employs 50 people.
By Marilyn Hagerty , May 10, 2012
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