JAMES FERRAGUT
Ferragut: The good times in Beuland 
I’m pretty sure most people think the neighborhoods they grew up in were the best.
By James Ferragut , August 22, 2010
Ferragut: A nation always at war?
It would be ridiculous to try to write something original on the insanity of war. The brightest minds have been immortalized by their opinions on war.
By James Ferragut , July 25, 2010
Ferragut: Summer music nostalgia
I get nostalgic in the summer. It’s because longing for these three hallowed months starts in January.
By James Ferragut , June 27, 2010
Ferragut: Young of heart and mind
To paraphrase a quote I saw recently: Apart from catching my image in the mirror, there is absolutely nothing to remind me that I’m anything but a 19-year-old lad.
By James Ferragut , May 02, 2010
Ferragut: We prepare again to be ‘the story’
Fargo-Moorhead attracted the world’s attention last year because of our refusal to abandon our cities in the face of a potentially catastrophic flood.
By James Ferragut , March 14, 2010
Ferragut: Optimism, hope stomped down by vicious schoolyard politics
I recently had a breakfast meeting with the president of a company from Germany. His products are more technologically advanced and higher quality than his competitors.
By James Ferragut , February 28, 2010
Ferragut: Have we learned a lesson?
OK, now what? What next? What have we learned since the economy crapped out and shook our world? Over the past two years and for the first time in eight decades, Americans have been forced to look at the way they conduct their lives.
By James Ferragut , January 31, 2010
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.
By James Ferragut , December 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.
By James Ferragut , December 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.
By James Ferragut , October 18, 2009
The ‘gap’ is more insidious
Donald Fisher died last week. Donald and his wife, Doris, founded a mom and pop store called The Gap in 1969. The only product The Gap sold was blue jeans. Owning a store that carried only one category of clothing was a new concept; it changed the business model of retailing. Niche retailing and niche marketing were born with The Gap. The Gap now has more than 3,700 stores worldwide.
By James Ferragut , October 11, 2009
Ferragut: Delve inside ‘the man’
It is ironic that most of the baby boomers who identified with the Woodstock Nation have become replicas of the generations we were rebelling against.
By James Ferragut , August 23, 2009
Ferragut: Survival,prayers on trail
I wanted the experience of a hardcore mountain-backpacking trip.
By James Ferragut , August 16, 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.
By James Ferragut , July 05, 2009
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