10/23/25: Governor Armstrong has appointed West Fargo School District Business Manager Levi Bachmeier as North Dakota’s next Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Bachmeier has served as business manager of the West Fargo School District since 2019, while also coaching track and field. From 2016 to 2019 he served as education policy adviser and policy director for then-Gov. Doug Burgum. Bachmeier previously taught high school social studies for two years with Teach for America and spent a summer as a policy analyst fellow at the U.S. Department of Education.

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(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)

10/23/25: Governor Armstrong has appointed West Fargo School District Business Manager Levi Bachmeier as North Dakota&rsquo;s next Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Bachmeier has served as business manager of the West Fargo School District since 2019, while also coaching track and field. From 2016 to 2019 he served as education policy adviser and policy director for then-Gov. Doug Burgum. Bachmeier previously taught high school social studies for two years with Teach for America and spent a summer as a policy analyst fellow at the U.S. Department of Education.
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Gov. Armstrong appoints Levi Bachmeier as state superintendent

02/19/26: The former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested Thursday for suspected misconduct in public office after revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Joel Heitkamp shares his take and takes comments from listeners on the news. 

(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)

02/19/26: The former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested Thursday for suspected misconduct in public office after revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Joel Heitkamp shares his take and takes comments from listeners on the news.&nbsp;
(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, &ldquo;News &amp; Views,&rdquo; can be heard weekdays from 8 &ndash; 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)

Joel speaks to arrest of former Prince Andrew over Epstein files-related misconduct

02/19/26: Stacy Mitchell is the Co-Executive Director for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and wrote this article in the Atlantic: The Great Grocery Squeeze / How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance released a new interactive map and policy brief that exposes how decades of unchecked consolidation reshaped the American grocery landscape.

(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)

02/19/26: Stacy Mitchell is the Co-Executive Director for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and&nbsp;wrote this article in the Atlantic: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift=QFVDFKVE3HQ31cU_KmT1dMoNepnmHxqTbYqKlK_hiUE&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift%3DQFVDFKVE3HQ31cU_KmT1dMoNepnmHxqTbYqKlK_hiUE%26utm_source%3Dcopy-link%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dshare&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1771621136937000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2fFIZfTOUADGZd5KFWL8uC">The Great Grocery Squeeze / How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert. </a>The Institute for Local Self-Reliance<a href="https://ilsr.org/article/independent-business/grocerygaps/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ilsr.org/article/independent-business/grocerygaps/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1771621136937000&amp;usg=AOvVaw282ApgbwOMY4RW-7YLjHWI">&nbsp;released a new interactive map&nbsp;</a>and policy brief that exposes how decades of unchecked consolidation reshaped the American grocery landscape.
(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, &ldquo;News &amp; Views,&rdquo; can be heard weekdays from 8 &ndash; 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)

Stacy Mitchell speaks to grocery food deserts across rural America

02/19/26: Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski gave commissioners an overview of how his department deals with immigration-related issues. He joins Joel Heitkamp on "News and Views" to talk about the meeting and how his department would deal with ICE.

(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, “News & Views,” can be heard weekdays from 8 – 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)

02/19/26: Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski gave commissioners an overview of how his department deals with immigration-related issues. He joins Joel Heitkamp on "News and Views" to talk about the meeting and how his department would deal with ICE.
(Joel Heitkamp is a talk show host on the Mighty 790 KFGO in Fargo-Moorhead. His award-winning program, &ldquo;News &amp; Views,&rdquo; can be heard weekdays from 8 &ndash; 11 a.m. Follow Joel on X/Twitter @JoelKFGO.)

Gov. Armstrong appoints Levi Bachmeier as state superintendent

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