This is a companion to the April 21 post, entitled Getting There. There have been some additions to the earlier post, as well as a couple of comments. The 1980 U.S. census had a question about the ancestry of citizens. The report showed that 7.9% of Minnesotans, 321,087 people, had French descent (from France and […]
FOLLOWUP POST AT APRIL 28 HERE. Related post here. PRENOTE: Comments section for this blog have been repaired and are again available to users. Today’s post relates to history of French-Canadians in this part of the world. Not directly related, but the Coleen Rowley talk about Leonard Peltier on Thursday is on-line and can be […]
A friend sent me this message on Tuesday Apr. 18. I send this exactly as received: “Do you have any interest in writing about 2 votes for 2023 SoWashCo ISD833 Schools a) Buildings Levy? and b) three School Board seats ? Not sure of the 2023 dates – (Jun 22 – Aug 7) and or […]
PROGRAM NOTE: This Thursday evening, on Zoom, Coleen Rowley on Leonard Peltier. Link is here. Pre-register. * Today [April 18] or very shortly thereafter the Fox trial proceeds in Delaware. There is always the possibility that there will be a pre-trial settlement – very common in matters like this – so anything is possible. The […]
PRENOTE: You may wish to watch this film trailer, in which you’ll see a familiar face – if you know me. The film will be released in France and the U.S. in the next few months. There have been three other posts this month: Hoops, Arraignment, Tennessee, access here, if you wish. * Thursday morning […]
This afternoon I turned on the television about the time the Tennessee legislature was about to expel one of its members, Justin Jones. The details will be all over the news, including the fates of two colleagues, Gloria Johnson and Justin Pearson. There will be more than enough detail on the regular news, so I’ll […]
I asked my search engine just now “how many people are arraigned in a year in the U.S.?“. Of course, the answer was almost instantaneous: “There were over 4.53 million arrests for all offenses in the United States in 2021.” Sometime later today one of those arraignments will happen on Manhattan, and sometime after that […]
Tonight is the NCAA Men’s Final, the premiere college basketball title in the U.S. Strictly coincidental, my 8th grade friend raised a question about what we remembered about the old school in tiny Ross ND in 1953-54. My brother, John, sent along photos he took in 2014, traveling through Ross, and finding the old school […]
Spring is almost here. We expect perhaps 5″ of snow tonight and tomorrow – but next week perhaps to the 50s. This weekend, a trip back to the 1880s. Within this week, I shared the below photo with my siblings, and with my French-Canadian colleagues in the French-American Heritage Foundation. This is a reminder about […]
Elba encounters a Tarantula, here. * Tuesday Netflix gave a viewing tip: Waco: American Apocalypse. a three part series which opened March 22. [See Postnote 2] It’s now 30 years after. Has anyone learned anything? Joyce Vance has an very informative commentary on the 1993 tragedy. (Vance places the Branch Davidian compound 20+ miles northeast of […]