Error In Legislation Means Earlier Sunday Booze Sales Might Not Be Legal
One of the more hotly contested bills during the 2015 legislative session earlier this year was the so-called "brunch bill."...
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Should Anti-Tobacco Tax Dollars Be Used To Fight Vaping?
About a month ago I wrote a post about Rep. Mike Schatz, a Republican lawmaker from New England, questioning whether...
Minnesota Considering Raising Smoking Age To 21
Big, paternalistic government is always taking another step toward infantilizing Americans. At 18 you’re old enough to fight in wars,...
Legislature Avoids Treating Vaping Like Smoking, For Now
The state Senate yesterday unanimously approved HB1186, which was one of two bills emerging from the House aimed at putting...
Health Gestapo Takes Aim At Fargo Culinary Students
At Fargo Davies High School in Fargo the students have a top-notch culinary class which runs, on a limited scale,...
Mandatory Voting Is A Stupid Idea
President Obama thinks a law mandating that all eligible Americans vote is a "transformative" idea. Obama floated the idea of...
Civil Disobedience: Kids Sled On Capitol Hill In Defiance Of Police
A victory for the people in the War on Fun: After Congress left town and snow showers arrived Thursday, children...
Grand Forks Bans Beer Pong
UPDATE: It looks like the WDAZ article quoted below was inaccurate. Grand Forks has merely moved these ordinance changes forward. They've yet to...
Lesson For North Dakota: Tobacco Smuggling Spikes In Minnesota After Tax Hike
Last week I wrote a post about proposed tobacco tax hikes being considered by lawmakers in Bismarck. I cited research...
Will Raising North Dakota's Tobacco Tax Decrease Use, Or Increase Smuggling?
"North Dakota needs to do everything it can to prevent more people from smoking and to encourage smokers to quit,"...
