EAGLE RIVER, Wisc. (WJFW)- One of the Northwood s most treasured tradition, the World Championship Snowmobile Derby, was back at the World Championship Derby Complex in Eagle River.
“I feel very lucky to have had role models like my mom, my dad and my uncles growing up. That’s something that had a tremendous influence on me that, if something’s right, you should fight for it.”
Mark Schneider, a civil rights attorney, local author, and former Democratic-NPL party chair, passed away on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at his home on Eighth Street in Fargo after a largely successful three-year battle with cancer. He was 74.
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 - Joe Schneider is the author of “A Blind Pig in Sugar City.” It’s a gritty novel about a young man getting his start as a journalist in the 1960s in Fargo. It’s an experience the author knows well – he was a reporter for the Forum newspaper back then. ~~~ Nearly all abortions are now illegal in some states, with more expected to follow. It’s not the first time states have banned the procedure. In a story from Harvest Public Media and KCUR, Mackenzie Martin has the story of Doctor Annie Smith, a figure who looms large in Missouri's mythology for performing illegal abortions in the early 1900s. ~~~ COVID expert Dr. Eric Topol calls BA.5 the worst variant because of immune escape – the ability to have growth, fitness and advantages we haven’t seen before. He visits with Conversations on Health Care hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter.