Earlier this week I wrote about a group of Republican and Democratic state lawmakers who, along with a group of lobbyists from the state, attended a National Conference of State Legislatures summit in Nashville, Tennessee. The lobbyists on the trip paid for at least one big meal at the Country Music Hall of Fame, which…
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Here’s What North Dakota Lawmakers Said They Learned on That Nearly $90,000 Trip to Nashville
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Trump’s Ban on Flavored Vaping Products Is a Dumb, Knee-Jerk Reaction
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We Shouldn’t Inflate the Cost of Government Just to Shop Local
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Dinner for Lawmakers, Paid for by Lobbyists, Was Legal Only Because There Aren’t Any Ethics Rules Yet
North Dakota
Here’s What North Dakota Lawmakers Said They Learned on That Nearly $90,000 Trip to Nashville
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We Shouldn’t Inflate the Cost of Government Just to Shop Local
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Senator Kevin Cramer Signs Letter to Facebook Over Censorship of Pro-Life Content
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Trade Cannot Be the Only Lens Through Which We See China
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Ethanol’s Struggles as Government Eases Mandates Should Make Farm Country Very, Very Scared
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Words Mean Things: The National Rifle Association Is Not a Terrorist Organization
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Conservative Group Hires Relative of Former Senator Heidi Heitkamp
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What Is the Order of the Mantic Syndicate and Why Is It Running for the United States House?
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NDSU Athletics Is Not a Business
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North Dakota Regulators Owe the Public a Better Explanation for Spill Underreporting
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Trump’s Ban on Flavored Vaping Products Is a Dumb, Knee-Jerk Reaction
In recent weeks we’ve seen a lot of headlines about vaping being linked to hundreds of cases of lung disease. In our region, North Dakota has reported at least one case of vaping-related lung disease, while Minnesota has seen a similar case end in death. This has, unfortunately, provoked some hysteria. Newspaper editorial boards are…
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Dinner for Lawmakers, Paid for by Lobbyists, Was Legal Only Because There Aren’t Any Ethics Rules Yet
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Legislature Should Consider Using Existing Platforms for Video of Committee Meetings
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Democratic Lawmaker Suggests New Ethics Commission Could Regulate Speech of Elected Officials
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How Far Must We Oblige the Will of the People?
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A Reminder That Social Media Activism Isn’t Real Life
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Case From Minnesota May Force the Supreme Court to Decide How Far Our Right to Say “No” Really Goes
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There’s Nothing “Reckless” About Using the Legacy Fund to Lower and Eliminate Income Taxes
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So Long David Koch
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A Payroll Tax Cut Is a Terrible Idea Without Social Security and Medicare Reform
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Print Column: We Overestimate the Government’s Ability to Solve Problems
MINOT, N.D. — Going by the promises currently being made by candidates for U.S. president, you’d think our federal government was an omnipotent machine, and politics merely the apparatus through which we aim it at problems. There seems to be no upper limit on what national candidates will promise they can accomplish. “Bernie Sanders promises…
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Guest Post: Thank You to North Dakota Lawmakers for Supporting Music Education
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Guest Post: Drug Importation Is Not the Solution for High Drug Prices
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Print Column: Life Is Worth Living
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Print Column: Wouldn’t It Be Nice if Collegiate Sports Didn’t Increase the Cost of Higher Education?
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Plain Talk: Senator Cramer Says He Could “Easily See” President Trump Saying He’d Pardon Crimes to Build the Border Wall
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Guest Post: Kudos to Attorney General Stenehjem for Joining Fight Against Illegal Robocalls
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Print Column: The Left’s Climate Change Eschatology Obstructs Real Progress Like the Davis Refinery
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Plain Talk: Meridian Energy CEO Says Davis Refinery Will Produce Less Pollution Than Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Print Column: The ‘1619 Project’ Is a Dangerous Attempt to Rewrite History