This guest post was submitted by Fargo attorney Mark Friese The Bismarck Tribune reports Bismarck City Commissioners will seek to impose traffic fines with double the financial penalties otherwise provided by law. If approved, this elitist, twice-as-expensive approach would arguably apply to all categories and types of traffic violations. There are hundreds, but to illustrate,…
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Guest Post: Maybe Stop Caring So Much About What the President Tweets
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Plain Talk: As Many as 175,000 North Dakota Could Seek Pardons for Marijuana Convictions
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Guest Post: Bismarck Doubling Traffic Fines Will Undoubtedly Invite Legal Challenges
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Controversy Over Pay for Absent Legislators Is Much Ado About Not Much
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Guest Post: Bismarck Doubling Traffic Fines Will Undoubtedly Invite Legal Challenges
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Controversy Over Pay for Absent Legislators Is Much Ado About Not Much
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Organizer of Referendum Petition Campaigns Says They Don’t Have Enough Signatures Yet
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When Actual Racism Doesn’t Happen I Guess We Have to Invent It
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When It Comes to Columbus Day, We Can’t Add Through Subtraction
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Do We Measure the Success of a University President in Terms of Buildings Built?
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North Dakota Politics Needs More Transparency, Not an Ethics Committee
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Tax Incentive Handouts Aren’t the Only Way to Promote Denser, Downtown Development
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Attorney General: Legislature’s Limits on Auditor’s Authority Are Likely Unconstitutional
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Nobody Even Like Remembers East Germany Any More, You Guys
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Guest Post: Maybe Stop Caring So Much About What the President Tweets
This guest post was submitted by Fargo attorney Mark Western It’s Groundhog Day yet again. Over the weekend, the Twitter-verse has been upended yet again with the President’s incendiary statement admonishing four Democratic members of Congress to “go back” to where they came from. While some have interpreted this as a taunt to go back…
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Ballot Measure Legalizing Recreational Marijuana in State Constitution Submitted to Secretary of State
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These Fargo Elected Leaders Are Dodging Accountability and It Stinks
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Is the Bizarre Political Situation in Alaska a Sign of Things to Come in North Dakota?
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If We Really Wanted Equality We’d Make the Female Soccer Players Compete With the Men
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We Don’t Need More Licensing Requirements for Massage Therapists, We Need Them for Prostitutes
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The U.S. Census Process Rewards States Which Flout Our Immigration Laws With More Political Clout
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It Would Be a Mistake for Marijuana Proponents to Try for Expungement Again
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This Editorial Cartoon Needs to Be Retracted
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Grand Forks City Council Member Says Democrats Mistakenly Included Her in Fundraiser
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Plain Talk: As Many as 175,000 North Dakota Could Seek Pardons for Marijuana Convictions
“We could be looking at upward of 175 to 179 thousand who have this issue.” That’s what Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said on this episode of Plain Talk, referring to a streamlined process to allow those with minor convictions for marijuana-related crimes to apply for pardons. Stenehjem sits on a constitutionally-established board which makes recommendations…
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Plain Talk: Trump Says So-Called “Fake News” Is “Dangerous” and “Not Free Speech” but He’s Absolutely Wrong
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Plain Talk: Senator Cramer Says of HR1044 “I Not Only Supported It I Championed It”
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Guest Post: Ethics Commission Front-Runner Has Corporate Ties to Large State Government Contracts
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Print Column: When Child Rape Becomes Just Another Political Football
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Plain Talk: NDUS Chancellor Says It’s Time for Higher Ed to “Get Out of the Ivory Tower”
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Plain Talk: “Democrats Are Finally Acknowledging There’s a Crisis at the Border” Says Armstrong
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Print Column: America Is an Idea That’s Greater Than This Ugly Moment
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Plain Talk: Legalize ND Organizer Explains New Proposal to Make Recreational Marijuana Legal
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Guest Post: North Dakota’s Legislature Disregards the People