Ferragut: Decades left their imprints 
It didn’t dawn on me until I noticed the first “Looking back at the first decade of the 21st century” that I realized the decade is over.
INFORUM, 12/27/2009
Ferragut: Booted, ousted, fired … 
I’ve been living as a statistic for five weeks. The statistic is full of negative connotations, false assumptions.
INFORUM, 12/06/2009
Ferragut: Chapman unjustly reviled 
Trashing public figures has become one of America’s favorite pastimes, a sick, but pleasurable exercise in making us not feel so bad about ourselves.
INFORUM, 10/18/2009
Ferragut: Incivility comes in threes 
An old adage says things happen in threes. The “trifecta concept” can reveal itself in strange ways.
Fargo, 09/27/2009
Ferragut: Nation’s promise is ageless 
My grandparents Andrea Ferraguto and Marie Scala arrived in America on March 20, 1911, on a ship called the Canopic. They left their homeland in Sicily for a magical land called America, a place where anything was possible. They married in 1917 and settled in Boston’s West End, the Italian conclave.
Fargo, 07/05/2009
Ferragut: Shooting of teenager generates questions 
That the Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo metro population is more than 200,000 still belies the fact that we are a close-knit community. Last weekend, an intruder, a teenage boy, was shot at point-blank range by a homeowner exercising his constitutional right to defend his home and property. The boy died.
Fargo, 06/28/2009
Ferragut: Fargo showed ’em how
Fargo, 04/05/2009
Winter: our little secret 
You heard it for an entire week: “It’s cold outside, brother,” or whatever characterization you heard or uttered about the recent inescapable, hideously cold weather that descended on us this winter. It was the talk of the town.
, 01/25/2009

