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Archive Home > 2012 > April > 01 > How far would you go for a comeback?

How far would you go for a comeback?

• Family men go it alone in North Dakota’s oil fields

By Ann Carrns / The Bulletin
April 1, 2012

WILLISTON, N.D. — Last spring, Bob Ripka decided the time had come for drastic change. His once-robust income from his job at a printing company was dwindling. His family lost their house in the real estate crash. And employment prospects around his home in Pine City, Minn., more than an hour....

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