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Rod St. Aubyn: What Is The Future Of The Legal Profession?
I was so pleased to see that Governor Dalrymple is awarding the Roughrider Award to ND Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerald VandeWalle. It is an award that Chief Justice VandeWalle deserves. He is such...
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North Dakota Highway Patrol Spokesman Says Google-Owned Waze App Helps Criminals
With the Christmas holiday coming up a lot of you will probably be hitting the road to visit friends and family. One tool you might use to help you get to your destination quickly and easily is Waze, a...
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Let’s Be Glad North Dakota Doesn’t Do Much With Our Lottery
I hate state-run lotteries. Not so much because I’m anti-gambling – I don’t enjoy gambling myself, but my libertarian position is that it should be legal – but because the states have essentially given...
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Richard Winger: Accessing Ballot Is Too Hard For North Dakota’s Minor Party...
Every state has had minor party candidates for the legislature on the ballot in recent elections, except for North Dakota. No minor party candidate for the N.D. legislature has been able to qualify...
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Opposition To Reforming North Dakota’s Oil Tax May Have State Paying An Ugly...
The video above is of the floor debate in the state House last session (February of 2013) over HB1234 introduced by Rep. Roscoe Streyle. The bill, among other things, would have eliminated a raft of...
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North Dakota Has More Money To Spend But Lawmakers Pass Fewer Bills
The North Dakota Legislature meets for no more than eighty days – the maximum the state constitution allows – every odd-numbered year. The most recent session ended in the spring of 2013, and the next...
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North Dakota Added Over 16,000 Workers In Last Year
Oil price concerns weigh heavy on the minds of many North Dakota leaders, but for now the state’s economy remains strong. We just got another datapoint proving it today with the latest state labor...
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If Only Our Government Got As Much Coverage As Football
Bison football has become such a big deal in North Dakota that the media is now running coverage about how much coverage the football team gets. It’s all very meta. Not that it ever takes much for the...
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Less Than 100 Sign Dakota Resource Council Petition To Audit Oil Regulators
It often seems as though the left-wing activists who are out to stop fossil fuel energy development get an inordinate amount of attention from the media, far in excess of their actual on-the-ground...
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Bette Grande: Policy And Budget Choices In A Time Of Great Uncertainty
With the ND legislative session a few weeks away there are many things to ponder over the holidays. There are opinions on every side about the impact and duration of lower global oil prices, but we...
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Obama Got It Right On Cuba
Representative Kevin Cramer sent out a press release yesterday evening reacting to President Barack Obama’s recent move toward more normalized diplomatic relations with Cuba. Not only does Cramer agree...
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Higher Ed Challenge Fund Should Be Renewed Only With Oversight For...
During the 2013 legislative session lawmakers authorized $29 million to match donations to the state’s institutions of higher education. The funds come in the form of grants, and every $1 in taxpayer...
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Rod St. Aubyn: My Legislative Christmas List
With Christmas just a few days away, I thought I would present my Legislative Christmas Wish List. After reviewing my list I found it necessary to pare it down to the top three. Behavioral Health...
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North Dakota University System Wants To Exempt Student Info From Open Records...
There’s been a lot of headlines created by the North Dakota University System’s request, now filed as legislation for lawmakers to consider next year, to exempt discussions of presidential evaluations...
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Governor Jack Dalrymple Misleads On Fee Increases?
During his budget address earlier this month Governor Jack Dalrymple promised that the executive branch would not seek to take more revenue in the form of higher taxes or fees from North Dakotans. “Our...
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Does Fast Food Make Kids Dumber?
“Eating fast food may lead to lower student test scores in math, science and reading, a recent study of U.S. school children said,” reports Reuters. A survey showed that fast-food consumption by 8,544...
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The End Of North Dakota’s Oil Boom Is Here
I think North Dakota’s oil boom is over, and the closing of a business in Williston has convinced me that it’s true. The Williston Herald is reporting that the Bakken Club, a business that made...
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Rod St. Aubyn: Projected Oil Prices And The Legislature
Rob had an interesting blog story on Saturday evening about the possibility that the oil boom in Western North Dakota may be over. With the lower oil prices partially caused by OPEC’s war against...
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New York Times Profiles Corruption, Murder Involving Heidi Heitkamp “Friend”
Political corruption is an unfortunate fact of life on many American Indian reservations, and the Fort Berthold Reservation is certainly a noteworthy example. And, as has often happened with tribal...
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The Outdoor Heritage Fund Doesn’t Need Fixing, It Needs Repeal
This election year North Dakota had a titanic debate over a constitutional amendment – Measure 5, specifically – which would have diverted hundreds of millions of tax dollars into a slush fund for...
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