Port: In dramatic testimony, rural firefighters accuse Auditor Josh Gallion of exaggerating audit findings
MINOT, N.D. — The relationship between state lawmakers and North Dakota Auditor Josh Gallion may have hit a new low...
Month: March 2023
Port: New York prosecuting Donald Trump is worse than a bad idea. It’s unjust.
MINOT, N.D. — As anyone familiar with my body of work knows, I detest Donald Trump, and his political movement,...
Port: Stop falling for the gotchas and grandstanding
MINOT, N.D. — We all know that politics, especially the sort that emanates from Washington, D.C., consists of a lot...
Port: If we really want to deliver relief to working families, stop charging them for school lunches
MINOT, N.D. — There is a lot of talk in Bismarck about North Dakota's strong revenues and how to deliver...
Port: Let’s allow the voters to decide if they might like a different term limits regime better
MINOT, N.D. — One of the many reasons why legislating at the ballot box, through the initiated measure process, is...
Port: At some point, you have to let people live the lives they want to live
MINOT, N.D. — The debate over smoking bans has been over for a while now, and the anti-smoking folks won....
Port: North Dakota’s legislative process has never been more open and accessible
MINOT, N.D. — To work in journalism is to accentuate the negative. There's a saying in this line of work...
Port: North Dakota’s Supreme Court is close to manufacturing a right to an abortion in the state constitution
MINOT, N.D. — Back in 2020, it was clear that the North Dakota Supreme Court wanted to impose, amid the...
Plain Talk: Protecting patient choice, and a North Dakota Democrat switches sides
MINOT, N.D. — The American system for health insurance and care is broken. There are no two ways about it....
Port: Sanford wants to protect health care choice … by limiting your choices?
MINOT, N.D. — It's unfortunate how much time we've had to spend talking about the ephemera of the culture wars...
