Are North Dakota students getting smarter about how they finance higher education? It sure seems that way. The cost of attending institutions in the North Dakota University System certainly hasn’t gotten any cheaper, yet the volume of debt being carried by North Dakota students across all 11 public institutions in our state has declined. Earlier…
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North Dakota Has Seen a Significant Drop in Student Loan Debt Loads
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Bison Football Should Raise the Price for Season Tickets
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Print Column: Legislative Pettiness Leads to Marginalization of Burgum’s Conservative Budget
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Read It: Governor Burgum, Senator-Elect Cramer Tell NDGOP in Letter Not to Give up Open Primary
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North Dakota Has Seen a Significant Drop in Student Loan Debt Loads
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Read It: Governor Burgum, Senator-Elect Cramer Tell NDGOP in Letter Not to Give up Open Primary
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Video: Senator Heitkamp, Who Still Hasn’t Congratulated Senator-Elect Cramer, Delivers Angry and Tearful Farewell Speech
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Teddy Roosevelt Library Is a Good Idea, but Please Don’t Call It Mt. Rushmore
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Pro-Obamacare Lawsuit, Filed by North Dakota Democrats as a Campaign Gambit, Smacked Down by Judge
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Public Service Commission Says North Dakotans Can Be Charged for Green Energy Policies in Other States
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Pro Athletes Facing Bigger Tax Bills Should Blame High-Tax States Not Trump’s Tax Reform
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Any Reform to North Dakota Speeding Fines Should Avoid Move Toward Policing for Profit
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Measure 1 Backers Send Deeply Ironic Letter to Lawmakers Insisting They Begin Work on an Ethics Committee
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Should Convicted Criminals Be Able to Serve on North Dakota’s School Boards?
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Bison Football Should Raise the Price for Season Tickets
Those of you are familiar with my work know that I’ve got little love for collegiate athletics generally, and little interest in football specifically. But even I’ve noticed some of the griping about empty seats at North Dakota State University football games. The Bison are apparently on pace for another championship season, yet according to…
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On Day of Heitkamp’s Farewell Speech, Democrat Leader in the Senate Trashes North Dakota
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Burgum’s Budget Makes Spending of Oil Tax Revenues More Transparent
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Maybe Heidi Heitkamp Could Give Some of Her Left Over Money to Her Campaign’s Victims
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Doing Bad Things to the Environment in the Name of Environmentalism
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Legislation Could End North Dakota’s Open June Primary, Which Is Good in Principle but Could Be Bad for Republicans in Practice
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Senator Heidi Heitkamp: “I Think I’m Done With Electoral Politics”
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Governor Burgum’s First Real Budget Might Be the Most Fiscally Conservative Spending Plan North Dakota Has Seen in Two Decades
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U.S. Supreme Court Decision Could Mean Big Changes for North Dakota Bar Association
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“I’m Not Asking for Money or a Tax Rebate. Just Leave Me Alone.”
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Print Column: Legislative Pettiness Leads to Marginalization of Burgum’s Conservative Budget
MINOT, N.D. — Traditionally in North Dakota the governor’s executive budget, delivered to lawmakers as an address in December, is introduced as actual spending bills at the beginning of the actual legislative session in January. Last week legislative leaders changed the rules. While Burgum’s budget proposals will be available to lawmakers, the actual legislation introduced…
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Steve Burian: Research by UND and NDSU Critical to North Dakota’s Diversification
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Print Column: Burgum’s Proposed Pension Bailout Must Be Tied to Real Reforms
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Print Column: Public Must Keep a Sharp Eye on Relationship Between Local Politicians, Opioid Lawyers
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Print Column: ADHD, August Birthdays and Why I’m a Conservative
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Print Column: Burgum Can’t Paint Over the Mold Problem in Higher Education
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Print Column: We Are Regulating Young Families Out of Our State
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Print Column: Heitkamps Feel They’re Entitled to Power, and That’s Exactly Why They Shouldn’t Have It
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My Daily Radio Show Ends This Week
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Print Column: Measure 1 Should Be Challenged in Court Immediately