GRAND FORKS – Working as a balloon artist for a major political event has been on Misti Kauffman’s bucket list for years. Kauffman, owner of Grand Forks-based Balloons by Misti, imagined doing work at ...

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The cheering, clapping and speechifying are over. Historians from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have returned after their trips to the 2024 political party conventions to ...

‘Some of them are things that conventions have always used, and some of them are logistical things that are new in each different time period.’ And if you’re wondering how a curator brings home ...

An Auburndale business specializing in party décor contributed to the climax of a political party’s ultimate party. Johnathon and Shelly Gerber, owners of Party People Events in Auburndale, traveled ...