Author Archives: Kari Lucin

Avatar of Kari Lucin

About Kari Lucin

Kari Lucin is a staff writer for the Jamestown Sun of Jamestown, N.D., a regional news site at jamestownsun.com, where she writes, dabbles joyfully in multimedia, and updates social media content.

Movie Review: The Avengers

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Kari Lucin

Action movies only work when you care whether the protagonists live or die. If you don’t care, all the pretty explosions in the world won’t be enough to be entertaining. (See: Transformers.) The superhero flick “The Avengers” works. It might … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Lawyers, but No Guns or Money

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Kari Lucin

Jack McDonald, the counsel for the North Dakota Newspaper Association, provided everyone in the room with a packet, entitled All Things Legal, with the subtitle: A brief look at ND open meetings and open records laws & other sticky and … Continue reading →

Tagged , , | Leave a comment

News from–and in–the Oil Patch

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Kari Lucin

The oil boom is affecting newspapers in western North Dakota just as much as it is every other industry, it seems. Three people in the newspaper business had a roundtable discussion Friday morning at the North Dakota Newspaper Association conference, … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The Oil Patch: It’s Not What You Think

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Kari Lucin

I visited North Dakota’s Oil Patch last week and discovered the truth about the area, often compared to the Wild West and considered frightening, dangerous and filled with men who would shoot you just to watch you die. Unsurprisingly, after … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Westward! To the Oil Patch!

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Kari Lucin

Tomorrow I’m heading out with a colleague to the modern-day Wild West, filled with oilmen, money and trucks so big they will make you say “That’s no moon!” and back away with horror. I’m going to a newspaper conference, but … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

The Hunger for Death

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Kari Lucin

Would you pay to watch 24 children kill each other? I did, this weekend, when I bought a ticket to “The Hunger Games,” which is playing at our local theater in Jamestown. Now obviously no children were actually killed to … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Playing Catch-Up

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Kari Lucin

My collection of links, garnered over days of poking at various websites briefly and putting them aside, has achieved critical mass again, and threatens to shut down all the stuff I’m currently working on if I don’t get rid of … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

A Child’s Senseless Death

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Kari Lucin

Bullies have claimed another victim, this time in Iowa. The boy was just 14 years old. His name was Kenneth Weishuhn. I would encourage everyone to look to themselves, their children. Not just for victims who need help, but for … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Strangulation? In North Dakota?

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Kari Lucin

When I wrote this story about sexual assault, I also talked to Mary Thysell a little bit about domestic violence, an even more common problem, and strangulation came up. I said I was fairly certain that in Minnesota, choking someone … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Pants-Wearing Killer: An Addition

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Kari Lucin

Apparently pants-wearing spree killer Anders Breivik actually played World of Warcraft as time off from planning his killing spree, not as a way to plan it. The news story got it wrong. In fact, most of the entities covering the … Continue reading →

Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment