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The Roosevelt-Custer Regional Council for Development (R-CRC) is a quasi-public non-profit agency that serves the eight counties and 27 communities of the southwest region of North Dakota designated as Region VIII. Those counties include Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Slope and Stark. Governed by local city and county officials and operating under state enabling legislation, the Regional Council provides planning, development and technical assistance services to the area’s counties and cities. For the past 38 years, the R-CRC has acted as the region’s “council of governments” or the “regional planning and development office” and thus responds to a number of issues and concerns as they affect local governmental entities. It is in this role that the Regional Council has undertaken this Public Safety Assessment with funding from Bremer Bank. This project is meant to provide a description and needs analysis of Public Safety in the eight county region.

The Missing Middle chronicles the diminishing role of moderates and centrists in contemporary American politics. In the early chapters, it examines the growth in left and right perspectives in the media during the Clinton and Bush years, when two highly polarizing issues (impeachment and the Iraq war) dominated the public discussion and fueled organizational growth on the left and right. It documents how middle America became gradually squeezed out of the debate over public issues in the Clinton and Bush era. The focus on the media in the early part of the book serves as a jumping-off place for a wide-ranging discussion of the role of moderates and centrists in American political life. First, from a historical perspective that explores the way some presidents in the past half-century pursued a dynamic centrist approach to American government. It gives you that clear perspective of a few leaders who everyone knows - major historical figures like Clinton, JFK, and Eisenhower - and how they explored a middle path to quality American leadership. Second, a focus on policy that shows what centrists would actually like to do on the major issues facing our nation today. The book returns to policy again and again - to the choices we actually need to make - which gives you a solid sense of centrism as a distinct option on the current political landscape. Finally, there is a focus on movement politics. The book interweaves the elements of left and right movements (their media figures, organizations, and candidates) with corresponding elements in centrist politics. We see where the middle is present and where it is missing, in comparison to the vibrant left and right communities. You get a feel forwhat all of these movements really look like on the American political scene today. While weaving the above themes into a clear picture of American centrism, The Missing Middle brings a passionate quality to the subject that shows why we might want centrists to prevail on some issues and what centrists can do for the nation. It has an emotional and slightly polemical feel in places, woven into the solid factual structure of the book.

A genealogy and a history of the ancestors of Sunie Garrett Talbert born 13 May 1899 at Belleview Plantation, Edgefield County, South Carolina the daughter of Edward Holmes Talbert and Marguerite Zelime Mays. She married 1) 18 Feb 1924 Alexander Samuel Elliott (1895-1940) and 2) 30 June 1941 Frederick Murry Fisher.