A recent letter to the editor by one David Wells attacks my credibility. “I believe some clarification is in order regarding Rob Port’s description of Democrat Heidi Heitkamp’s political career in his July 17th column. Port is either woefully ignorant of Heitkamp’s political history or he is making a deliberate attempt to deceive Forum readers to advance…
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It Should Be Illegal for a City to Hold an “Open Meeting” in Another City
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If You’re Going to Attack My Credibility Please Quote Me Accurately
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Plain Talk: North Dakotans Are Too Pessimistic About Economic Mobility
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North Dakota’s Legislature Doesn’t Set Family Leave Policy for Private Businesses and That’s a Good Thing
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If You’re Going to Attack My Credibility Please Quote Me Accurately
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We Need to Take Away Law Enforcement’s Ability to Withhold Video From the Public
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Using the Legacy Fund to Eliminate Income Taxes Would Not Make North Dakota Like Alaska
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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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It Should Be Illegal for a City to Hold an “Open Meeting” in Another City
Last year the City of Minot held a “retreat” in the City of Washburn, a town roughly an hour south along Highway 83. This “retreat” was also, supposedly, an open meeting at which public business was discuss. Including a hot-button issue related to the city doubling the cost of building permits for people living in…
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North Dakota’s Legislature Doesn’t Set Family Leave Policy for Private Businesses and That’s a Good Thing
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The Left Has Cried Wolf on Racism So Many Times Their Criticism of Donald Trump Isn’t Penetrating
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Guest Post: Maybe Stop Caring So Much About What the President Tweets
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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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Plain Talk: North Dakotans Are Too Pessimistic About Economic Mobility
A recent Harvard Study found that while North Dakotans are almost the most pessimistic people in the country when it comes to economic mobility (the ability of people to improve their economic situation over their lifetimes), the state actually sees more economic mobility than any other. Why the disconnect? Also, Congressman Kelly Armstrong takes listener…
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Plain Talk: Senator Cramer Says He’s “Surprised” Trump Even Cares About #TheSquad
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Print Column: The Dumbest Thing Democrats Could Do Is Listen to Heidi Heitkamp
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Plain Talk: As Many as 175,000 North Dakota Could Seek Pardons for Marijuana Convictions
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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