High Plains Reader
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The High Plains Reader is an alternative newspaper serving the Fargo metropolitan area, with an estimated readership of 20,000 to 30,000 weekly between print and online readers. The tabloid was founded in 1994 by Ian Swanson, Peter Ryan, and Len Schmid in Grand Forks, North Dakota and is currently owned by Raul Gomez and John Strand who purchased the paper in late December 1996. After a flood and fire destroyed their Grand Forks office, the Reader moved its office to Fargo. In 2004, the Reader celebrated its 10th anniversary in different venues in the Fargo-Moorhead area, including Ralph's Corner Bar. Distribution ended in the Grand Forks area in 2009. In 2014, HPR celebrated 20 years. Source
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
| Media Market | Fargo-Valley City |
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Search ArticlesHomesteading insights from the road
From August 5 to 7, I am attending the 56th Convention of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia in Hays in western Kansas. Hays is the Ellis County seat, which, along with Rush County, will celebrate their 150th Anniversary of the settlement of the first Volga German immigrants.
Solving the hormonal keys
The key for male (and female) health: estrogen, testosterone and their siblings The U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced that military personnel 30 or older will undergo regular testing for testosterone deficiency. This will be included in their mandatory annual checkup to optimize the person’s natural capabilities, protecting longevity and ensuring the biological foundation required to sustain the fight.
River Runs Red: A Taste of Fargo-Moorhead at Harold’s on Main
by | Aug 28, 2026 | Music Sunday, August 30, 2 p.m. Harold’s on Main, 1330 Main Ave., Moorhead It’s the end of summer and things will get heavy. River Runs Red features celebrated hardcore, punk and metal acts — and any genre in between. This will be Swing Low’s first show in 4 years and Spec’s first show in two years. Don’t miss Daikaiju — the guitar wielding masked marauders — along with Out4Blood, Careful Gaze, No Divinity, Frenzied State, God Cult, Goodmorning Guilty, Stepback, and Ganked.
Castrating Congress and carving the Constitution
Trump: ‘No other president could do some of the shit I’m doing’ It’s Voting Day in the country. All voters are in formal dress. A uniformed soldier gives each voter a ballot which has only one name. Each voter checks it and places the ballot in the “Yes” box with both hands. Each voter bows deeply to the picture of the president, his father, and grandfather. No one dares to approach the “No” box. The voters leave the voting precinct and join the election celebration in the city center.
In Schoenbrun’s tent: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’
An increasingly intimate relationship between a filmmaker and a reclusive horror actor commands our attention in “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” director Jane Schoenbrun’s highly anticipated follow-up to the much lauded “I Saw the TV Glow.” Schoenbrun’s latest, described by the artist in an interview with JP Mangalindan for “Time” as emerging from the “fun parts” of transitioning (as opposed to the more frightening aspects explored in “I Saw the TV Glow”) is essential viewing for...
Good news for the badlands
“It’s a feather in their cap and, any time they are successful at shepherding one of these through the process, it’s a feather in all of North Dakota’s cap.” I’ve written here before about efforts by some bad guys — some former County Commissioners in the far west of North Dakota, in Billings County — to build a bridge and connecting roads in the valley of the Little Missouri State Scenic River at a place called the Short Ranch (more about that place in a minute) and the efforts of some good...
For every student, a laptop
“…dropout rates climb to 20% higher for distance learning when compared to face-to-face classrooms. I wonder what role AI will play tomorrow.” Over promised and under performed Imagine it is the 1920s. You are sitting in your high school science classroom and your teacher tells the class that he just read what Thomas Edison had to say about the big changes motion pictures will cause in education, like making school more interesting for students.
Dinner at the farm, with a tour between courses
by | Aug 25, 2026 | Food Thursday, August 27, 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday, September 10, 5:30-8 p.m. Farm in the Dell, 7426 40th St. N, Moorhead You’ve heard of the farm to table moment. But this time, the table comes to the farm. The menu focuses on local food, with a multi-course meal prepared by Chef Paul Hagen from New Vibe Culinary and desserts by Spread Your Sunshine. If you go, be sure to wear farm friendly footwear — attendees will have an opportunity to tour the farm and gardens.
Muiderman Theatre: a hidden gem in the Red River Valley
By Joseph Demasi and Madeline Luke North Dakota is a state of hidden treasures. It is amazing what you can find here if you know where to look. If you head to Thompson, North Dakota, just a few miles south of Grand Forks, you will find the home and workshop of luthier Kevin Muiderman, a world-renowned maker of beautiful acoustic guitars.
Let one ad hoc climate action group inspire others to local action
In a time of desperate politics, it can be easy to get despondent. We little people have no power over anything political, we tell ourselves. Everything is controlled by Big Business, Big Data, Big Tech and the corporate media. One group in Moorhead, which I’m proud to call myself a part of, is pushing in the opposite direction.