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48% Of North Dakota Welfare Spending Is On Fast Food, Eating Out, ATM’s And...
I wrote previously about disturbing numbers from the North Dakota Department of Human Services regarding the use of TANF (welfare) funds in the state. DHS hasn’t been very forthcoming with data, and in...
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ND Senate Set to Decide on 4 Key Abortion Bills
The stage was set today for what will most likely be some very interesting debate tomorrow on four Senate Bills regarding abortion in North Dakota. Consideration of amendments were heard for the...
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Just A Reminder: Support For North Dakota’s Pro-Life Bills Strong And...
The Huffington Post has an article up today about Rep. Kathy Hawken organizing a protest of Republican legislators against the anti-abortion bills passed already, and a couple that are still advancing....
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Video: North Dakota Approves Three More Anti-Abortion Bills
The North Dakota House today had lengthy debate on four anti-abortion bills with originated in the Senate. This is “landmark legislation,” as Rep. Robin Weisz noted during the floor debate. “No state...
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North Dakota Liberals Get Hypocritical About Out-Of-State Pro-Life Funding
Now that pro-life legislation has been approved by the legislature, and as Governor Jack Dalrymple draws out this debate by taking his sweet time considering whether to sign or veto, Democrats and...
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Governor Dalrymple Receiving Death Threats Over Signing Pro-Life Legislation...
Yesterday news broke that a pro-abortion activist had been arrested for threatening the life of state Senator Margaret Sitte, who is a champion of pro-life legislation here in North Dakota. Now,...
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Video: North Dakota Senate Passes Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
The North Dakota Senate today brought to the floor HB1362, which contains the expansion of the state Medicaid program originally mandated by Obamacare. The Supreme Court, however, ruled that the states...
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Grand Forks Democrat Claims She Stiffed Client Because She Was Depressed
The North Dakota Supreme Court has reprimanded state Senator Connie Triplett (D-Grand Forks) for a second time for misconduct as an attorney in a state. This time Senator Triplett apparently didn’t...
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Another Company Cuts Back Spending, Drilling In North Dakota Due To Oil Prices
More ugly news for a state that has an aggressive spending budget built on oil tax revenues, despite what Governor Jack Dalrymple has claimed. Two days ago Oasis Petroleum announced that they were...
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North Dakota’s Tax Revenues Did Not Actually Decline 46 Percent In The Third...
Yesterday evening I wrote about a report from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, picked up by Reuters, which described North Dakota’s tax revenues as declining 46.7 percent in the third quarter...
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NDSU President Used Girlfriend’s Email Account To Avoid Open Records Requests?
NDSU President Dean Bresciani is rather famously hostile to government transparency. “Either Dean Bresciani went to the Lois Lerner school of email management, or she went to the Dean Bresciani school,...
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Credit Where It’s Due: Dickinson Press Stands Up For The Public’s Right To Know
I often get accused of being too negative, of only writing about what’s wrong and not what’s right, so let me take a few moments of your time to applaud some people who are doing the right thing....
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Everything You Wanted To Know About North Dakota’s Tax Trigger
With oil prices in a rout, North Dakotans are obviously concerned about what impact that may have on the state’s budget. Governor Jack Dalrymple and lawmakers have increased spending aggressive in past...
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When Environmentalists Obstruct Solutions To Environmental Problems
Very often I get the feeling that environmental groups care far less about the environment than they do about advancing certain political agendas. Case in point, the battle over NORM (or naturally...
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John Dorso: Feds Should Stop Meddling In Local Law Enforcement Matters
That President Obama and his AG Eric Holder are adding to the racial tensions in this country is a point some may argue with. What isn’t being discussed is the insertion of the Federal government into...
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Shauna Theel: Wind Becoming A Valuable Part Of North Dakota’s Energy Boom
The renewable energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) has helped spur private investment in projects that help American workers make more of our energy right here at home, and North Dakota has seen the...
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Kevin Cramer: “Arbitrary Emission Standard” Puts American Power Supply At...
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com “I don’t think many people know how close we came,” Rep. Kevin Cramer said on Fox News Business yesterday, referring to last year’s “polar vortex” and...
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Time For Oil Boom Critics To Give Some Credit On Flaring
To hear some environmental activists and political partisans tell it North Dakota’s oil boom is an ecological disaster. “We’re destroying western North Dakota,” they chorus. Most recently they’ve been...
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