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Sam Easter

Contributing reporter

Sam Easter is a freelance reporter who has been a regular contributor to the Herald since 2019.

Easter, a native of Midland, Mich., graduated from Central Michigan University in 2013 with a degree in English, after which he interned and worked a general-assignment beat for the Bay City Times/MLive.

In 2015, he joined the Herald’s staff as City Hall reporter, covering North Dakota politics at all levels and conducting Herald investigations through early 2018, when he began his freelancing career.

His work has since appeared in The Washington Post, Vice, The Daily Beast and other publications.

Easter, who speaks English and Spanish and uses the pronouns he/him/his, can be reached at samkweaster@gmail.com or via Twitter via @samkweaster.

GRAND FORKS-Senators from Minnesota and North Dakota are split on the road ahead after President Donald Trump's Monday announcement that he is firing Rex Tillerson, his administration's secretary of state.
GRAND FORKS-North Dakota's Republican leaders in Washington, often content with President Donald Trump's policy decisions, took a different tack last week upon his announcement of high metal tariffs, which critics say could harm the American economy.
GRAND FORKS - Minnesota and North Dakota leaders are cautiously open to President Donald Trump's plans to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un-often welcoming diplomacy and a calmer relationship, but hoping the Trump administration will hand...
WASHINGTON-Last week's school shooting in Parkland, Fla., left 17 dead and has since evoked uncommon political attention from politicians-from President Donald Trump to leaders in North Dakota and Minnesota, many of whom say they're open to chang...
WASHINGTON-When Donald Trump addresses the nation on Tuesday night, Jan. 30, lawmakers from Minnesota and North Dakota will be listening carefully for the president's vision-and from a look at the guest list, some are looking to make statements o...
Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., minced no words Friday, Jan. 26, on recent reports that President Donald Trump attempted last year to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller-the ex-FBI director now investigating links between Russia and the president's cam...
GRAND FORKS--Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's presidency, with approval ratings nationwide historically low for much of that time. And among North Dakota and Minnesota leaders, Trump's performance reviews are mixed.Presse...
ROVERUD, Norway-George Melford Nygaard, 108, was born in 1910-just after Ford's Model T hit the streets, two years before the Titanic sailed and before Europe descended into World War I. Now approaching his 12th decade, the North Dakota native be...
Fergus Falls firefighters responded to a "fully-engulfed" construction trailer fire on Friday and contended with multiple propane tanks as they attempted to put it out.
GRAND FORKS - Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, invoked her own family history in rebuking President Donald Trump's reported remarks on Haitian and Nigerian immigrants, calling them "unfair generalizations."Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., also expressed c...