Fundraising and construction planning was a total disaster, and now they are going to shell out another $35m for this vanity project. Tone deaf and feckless.

https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/nd-legislators-to-consider-35-million-to-fund-military-museum-construction/?utm\_medium=social&utm\_source=facebook\_KX\_News&fbclid=IwY2xjawTwv\_JwZG9mBGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzQwOTk2MjYyMzA4NTYwOQABHnTiiVipvuM8GuOJfGmTTzeTBW04ab7A5PmoXk0WOCaKkpS9X3CoETj3Bxf9\_aem\_WmaMP1ywaqaBM1NoqZJMNA

Hey all. First time posting. I hope I’m not breaking any rules.

This is item I found in a small thrift shop in France. It kind of spoke to me lol.

It’s an award that was presented to Laurence Welk.

The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award. Given by William L. Guy gouverner of North Dakota in 1963.

Anyone have an idea if I should grab him or not? It’s selling for 25€.

Thanks everyone !!

Seen on Facebook, not sure if the guy who posted it would want his name shared.

Stark Power, the foreign owned company driving this Mandan Data Center project, is accepting submissions here: https://mandandc.com/
Please ask as many questions as possible, and voice your disapproval of the project. Or your approval if you enjoy the idea of yourself or your neighbors to suffering through this forever more.

Stark Power is also having an open house on Aug. 20th in Mandan. Here's a (paywalled) source link from the Bismarck Tribune.

***MOST IMPORTANTLY***
The public City of Mandan Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting is on Aug. 24th at 5:30pm in the Mandan High School Auditorium (the new location at 2335 4th Ave NW).
Here's more information posted to facebook from Snortland for ND, the official City of Mandan meetings calendar can be found here.

The rules and regulations that North Dakota and Mandan have for Data Center construction are nearly nonexistent. They are being written NOW.
Now is the time to make your voice heard.
Speak up before your voice is drowned out by the song of the data center.

The state already gave $40m for the military gallery. They haven’t raised any money and the legislature just wants to write another check. We have actual needs, and it’s going to be nearly $80m for this.

When is there going to be accountability in state government here?

Link to full article: https://northdakotamonitor.com/2026/08/14/line-of-credit-more-oversight-proposed-for-stalled-north-dakota-military-gallery-project/

So my question is this: If you are a member of a professional board provided by the state of North Dakota, and you choose to establish a company, and then you have that company approved by the board you serve on to be one of the beneficiaries of the people you are meant to serve – not only the community but specifically hairstylists – and you decide to create this company and get it approved to be part of the board-certified educational pathway, do you consider that a conflict of interest or do you believe it to be illegal?

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/ISwRa7Lt2CU

A topic that has caused public consternation around development in North Dakota is the practice of companies asking public officials to sign nondisclosure agreements about their proposed projects. Sen. Tim Mathern has a bill for the upcoming special session that would ban the practice, but only for data center issues, which Democratic candidates have made a central campaign issue this election cycle. Shouldn’t that sort of legislation cover other types of projects?

From KFGO.com

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) – A North Dakota state senator plans to introduce a resolution urging President Donald Trump to grant executive clemency to two men serving life sentences for their roles in a 1983 shootout that left two U.S. marshals dead.

State Sen. Jeff Magrum, R-Hazelton, is sponsoring the draft concurrent resolution on behalf of Scott Faul, 73, and Yorie Kahl, 66. Both men have been in federal custody for more than 43 years following the ambush near Medina, North Dakota.

“I just felt like justice isn’t being served,” Magrum said. “If you pay your debt to society and serve your sentence, you should be let out”.

The resolution formally requests that the 69th Legislative Assembly urge the president to grant clemency and asks the secretary of state to forward copies of the measure to the White House and North Dakota’s congressional delegation.

A Deadly Encounter and Decades in Prison

Faul and Kahl were convicted in federal court following the Feb. 13, 1983 shootout that resulted in the deaths of Deputy U.S. Marshals Kenneth Muir of Fargo and Robert Cheshire of Bismarck. Three other law enforcement officers were wounded during the confrontation.

A jury convicted both men of two counts of second-degree murder, four counts of assaulting federal officers, one count of conspiracy to assault, and one count of harboring a fugitive. Each was sentenced to two concurrent life terms plus an additional 15 consecutive years.

Faul is currently imprisoned at the Milan Federal Correctional Institution in Michigan, while Kahl is held at the Butner Federal Correctional Institution in North Carolina.

According to the resolution, both men began serving their sentences on June 24, 1983, with an initial presumptive parole date of Feb. 12, 2013. The Bureau of Prisons later extended that date to 2023.

The U.S. Parole Commission subsequently denied parole requests for both men in 2023 and again in 2025.

“The goalposts keep changing,” Magrum said, noting that the pair’s next opportunity to apply for parole will not come until 2027. “That’s kind of a cruel and unusual punishment to them and their families to expect to get out, and then the sentence keeps changing”.

Legislative Path Ahead

Magrum said his decision to draft the resolution stemmed from a phone call he received two years ago from Faul while Magrum was serving as a presidential elector. After previous outreach to federal lawmakers yielded no results, Magrum decided to bring the matter before the state legislature.

“I know there’s victims on the other side and I am sympathetic to them too,” Magrum acknowledged. “But the fact of the matter is Scott left behind five children and Yorie a daughter, and they’ve served their debt to society”.

Magrum plans to present the resolution on Monday to Legislative Management, which will determine whether it will be included in an upcoming special session. It is one of roughly 29 proposed bills and resolutions under consideration for the session.

He said he has circulated the draft to lawmakers representing the area surrounding Medina to gauge interest in co-sponsoring the measure.