Articles

The full Neal deal: Fargo-born nutrition advocate doesn’t avoid controversy

FARGO - Dr. Neal Barnard doesn’t think his battle against America’s food manufacturers is of David-and-Goliath proportions.

• Dr. Neal Barnard
• Grim Reaper ad

Swift: North Dakotans have own language

A sloppy Joe by any other name is still a sloppy Joe. That’s the one thing I learned after checking out the “Dictionary of American Regional English,” which explains more than 60,000 regional words and phrases.

• Tammy Swift

Sister’s Path leads addicted parents to rebuild lives (Part 2 of 2)

Unassuming program ‘simply here to serve our clients’
FARGO – Deb Soliah describes Fargo’s Sister’s Path program as the most Scandinavian of programs.

• Julie McCroskey
• Nurse checks on a mother
• Fenced backyard
• Tower City mother ends cycle of substance abuse to reunite with her children (Part 1 of 2)

Out of the ashes: Town’s efforts, another congregation’s generosity resurrect Oriska church

ORISKA, N.D. - Even as the Zion Lutheran Church burned to the ground May 16, 2011, the congregation wasn’t ready to give up.

• Fire, rebulding, dedication
• Rescued from the fire
• The Rev. Dan Faust
• New Oriska church

Swift: All’s fair in love and tanning

When I saw photos of tanorexic New Jersey mother Patricia Krentcil last week, I could only think one thing: “There, but for the grace of sunblock, go I.”

• Tammy Swift

High tunnel, low cost

Felton, Minn. - From a distance, it looks like a giant snake skeleton against the blue Minnesota sky. But drive closer, and you realize this is a high tunnel like few others.

• Tyne Stormo and Ben Kragnes

Mob beating of former Forum reporter in Virginia sparks media firestorm

FARGO – A former Forum reporter who was beaten by a mob has found himself caught in a media firestorm amid claims that his newspaper, The Virginian-Pilot, tried to practice “reverse racism” by burying the incident.

• Dave Forster

North Dakota has third-highest West Nile virus infection rate

Fewer getting most severe form of virus
FARGO – The good news: A new study shows we are much less likely to get the most severe form of West Nile virus than previously thought. The not-so-good news: More of us have been infected with the West Nile virus than we probably realize.

• Mild winter may – or may not – spawn more skeeters

Mild winter may – or may not – spawn more skeeters

FARGO – The relatively mild winter has some people wondering if mosquitoes, especially the West Nile virus-carrying Culex Tarsalis, will be out for blood this year.

A life less ordinary: Kindred native grows up to meet Eleanor Roosevelt, lead national medical society

FARGO - Adele Swenson has no idea why her life turned out the way it did. She was a poor farm girl, yet she grew up to have tea with Eleanor Roosevelt.

• Adele Swenson

Columns

Swift: When food hoarding becomes a necessity

No sooner is the cap off a fresh tube of toothpaste, my husband says, and I’m flying into town to replace it with a new one.

• Tammy Swift

Swift: ‘Dance Moms’ on two left feet

Move over “Toddlers and Tiaras.” There’s a whole new breed of scary parent in town. They’re the “Dance Moms.” They live in nicer houses and dress posher than “Tiara’s” pageant moms, but they are every bit as petty, strident and horrifying.

• Tammy Swift

Swift: Dog endures battle of the bulge(s)

Poor, lumpy Jake. When he was 3 or 4 years old, my father-in-law pointed out a slight protuberance on his left side (hereafter known as his “driver’s side”).

• Tammy Swift

Tammy Swift column: Going from bridesmaid to the Captain of the Coffee

The comic hit of early summer just might be “Bridesmaids,” the new Kristen Wiig movie about the hilarious, outrageous exploits of a bride’s best friends before they march her down the aisle.
I guess such a film will enjoy better box office than one called “Matronly Aunts,” a movie about a gaggle of middle-aged women relegated to making pew bows and pinning on corsages at the wedding.

• Tammy Swift

Swift: Pomapoo gets new ’do

Last week, I came home from work to find a new, furry, black ottoman in the living room. “How nice,” I thought. “TSC must have had a furniture sale, which Irwin couldn’t resist. I wonder if he also bought a John Deere afghan?” But when I tried to prop my feet up on the new ottoman, it yelped.

• Tammy Swift

Swift: ‘Drop by’ guests shouldn’t expect domestic paradise

There are four kinds of housekeepers in the world.

Swift: The super son-in-law showdown

I finally realized something during my Christmas break. My family isn’t athletic. We aren’t famous. But that doesn’t stop us from being the most competitive family of uncoordinated unknowns in the Upper Midwest.

Swift: Mother-in-law’s Mocha Bars the best, bar none

Here’s the weird thing about Christmas cookies. Everyone thinks their families make the best ones.

Swift: Cleaning freezer causes slow burn

We’ve played a new game at the Swift Compound lately. It’s called “What’s This Thing I Found in the Freezer?”

Swift: Welcome to Bed, Wrath & Beyond

My husband says the scariest sentence in the English language is when I say: “I have an idea.”