North Dakota’s Office of Management and Budget has released a new forecast for North Dakota’s tax revenues, and the numbers are an improvement over previous forecasts. According to the forecast, released by Governor Doug Burgum’s office, revenues for the rest of the 2017-2019 biennium are projected to be 4.4 percent (or more than $136 million)…
Governor Burgum May Be Salty About It, but Lawmakers Are Right to Sue Over Vetoes
State lawmakers announced today that they’ll be filing a lawsuit challenging some of the vetoes issued by Governor Doug Burgum targeting bills they passed during their session earlier this year. We knew this was coming. Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner told me back in June that lawmakers needed just one more vote to move forward…
Blame Standing Rock and #NoDAPL for North Dakota Legislature Cancelling Tribal Address UPDATED: Plan B Instituted
Updates to this story below Next year North Dakota’s Legislature, including those members just elected earlier this month, will convene for their 2017 session. Typically each new session begins with a series of addresses from the governor, the judiciary, and the state’s tribes. But this year the addresses from the tribes and the judiciary has…