High Plains Reader
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Circulation 20,000-30,000 | | |
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The High Plains Reader is an
Features
The paper features reviews of bands, movies, and theater in Fargo-Moorhead, plus a calendar of weekly events. Its editorials generally take a more leftist tack than those of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.
Recurring portions of the High Plains Reader include the weekly editorial, written by Editor Sabrina Hornung, photojournalist and news editor C.S. Christopher Hagen, or Co-owner John Strand; the cover story; features; opinion; wellness; a theater column; movie reviews by Greg Carlson; a Best Bets section, generally giving brief synopses of upcoming events, focusing mostly on local musicians; and a calendar section, a detailed list of daily events for the upcoming week.
Controversy
The Reader began carrying Allison Moorhead's sex column in late 2004, which had a controversial and short run at North Dakota State University's newspaper The Spectrum. Longtime HPR contributor Ed Raymond withdrew his "The Gadfly" column in protest.
The column offered general information about sexual activities, including accounts of the writer's own, rather than a question-and-answer format. Moorhead stopped writing for the Reader in early 2005. Ed Raymond returned to writing his column the following June.