I’m watching the North Dakota Public Service Commission’s hearing on a proposed expansion of the Dakota Access Pipeline today ( it’s on-going, you can live stream it here, I’m not sure if or when an archive will be available). The proceedings are mostly unfolding as you’d expect. A sober, if at times pointed, discussion of…
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Guest Post: Impeachment Hearing Gave Little Reason for Anyone to Change Their Minds
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Left Wing Protesters Disrupt Legislative Meeting Over Legacy Fund, Tell Majority Leader to F**K Himself
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Hey Standing Rock, Was Yosemite Sam Busy?
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The Legacy Fund Should Be About Legacy, Not the Spending Needs of the Moment
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Hey Standing Rock, Was Yosemite Sam Busy?
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Feed the Kids, Sure, but Should Parents Be Let Off the Hook for School Lunch Debt?
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As Dakota Access Pipeline Fight Heats up Again Poll Says Nearly 70 Percent of North Dakotans Support Expansion
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Excessive Child Care Regulations Benefit Big Businesses but Hurt the Small Ones
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Cass County Prosecutor Won’t Pursue Criminal Charges Over ND School of Science Audit
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Auditor Gallion Needs to Be Careful Not to Prove His Critics Right
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Democrats in North Dakota’s Senate Call on Oley Larsen to Resign Leadership Position
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Publicly Oley Larsen Says He Won’t Resign, but Privately He’s Asking His Fellow Senators for Their Opinion
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Oley Larsen: Ilhan Omar Isn’t a Terrorist, She’s Just Sympathetic to Them
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How Is It Not Racist to Call Someone a Terrorist Simply Because They’re Muslim?
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Left Wing Protesters Disrupt Legislative Meeting Over Legacy Fund, Tell Majority Leader to F**K Himself
Lawmakers are in Fargo again today holding public hearings soliciting ideas for the $6.8-billion-and-counting in the state’s Legacy Fund. I wrote about yesterday’s iteration of this hearing earlier today, but sources on the scene tell me today’s continuation of the hearing has been disrupted by left-wing protesters. Here’s a brief (and not very high quality,…
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The Legacy Fund Should Be About Legacy, Not the Spending Needs of the Moment
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Let’s Not Make It Harder for Our Canadian Friends to Visit North Dakota
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Dakota Access Pipeline Expansion Expected to Bring in at Least $33 Million Per Year in Tax Revenues
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North Dakota Auditor Now Seems to Be Routinely Referring Audits for Criminal Investigation
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North Dakota Attorney General Asks for Law Enforcement Investigation Into Commerce Department Audit Findings
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If North Dakota’s Universities Are in a “Death Spiral” It’s Not From Lack of Public Funding
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I Guess Lynching-Themed Rhetoric Is Ok When Democrats Like Heidi Heitkamp Do It?
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For Some of North Dakota’s Small Towns Not Even the Law Is an Open Record
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North Dakota State Lawmaker Falsely Claims Picture Shows Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar in an Al Qaeda Camp
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Guest Post: Impeachment Hearing Gave Little Reason for Anyone to Change Their Minds
This guest post was submitted by Fargo-based attorney Mark Western I spent some time yesterday watching the impeachment hearings conducted by the United States House of Representatives Intelligence Committee. As a practicing attorney (and an avid political watcher), I have been watching, with some interest and some confusion, about the points that the various members…
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Print Column: Let’s Hope the Anti-Pipeline Activists Don’t Set Any Fires This Time
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Print Column: National News Outlets Squander the Public’s Trust and Local Journalists Suffer for It
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Print Column: ‘Progressive’ Energy Policy Hampers Progress
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Print Column: How Many Times Did North Dakota Cops Violate the Fourth Amendment?
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Print Column: Some N.D. Republicans Need to Find Their Moral Compass
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Print Column: Sen. Oley Larsen and Our Race to the Bottom
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Senators Cramer and Grassley: How Congress Can Fix High Drug Prices
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Guest Post: In Defense of School Resource Officers
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Plain Talk: North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Got Individual Insurance Rates 20 Percent Lower, Here’s What He Wants to Do Next