Port: North Dakota’s public employee pension director needs to be fired
MINOT, N.D. — North Dakota's lawmakers have sent to Gov. Doug Burgum legislation that will close the state's defined-benefit pension for...
Port: Why would North Dakota taxpayers help subsidize a Minnesota law we’re also challenging in court?
MINOT, N.D. — When Minnesota's lawmakers passed a new ban on energy from carbon-producing sources, like coal, the North Dakota...
Port: North Dakota Republicans replace Democrat-backed abortion ban with something more moderate
MINOT, N.D. — Yes, I'm being specious with the headline, but it's on purpose. Yesterday Gov. Doug Burgum signed into law Senate...
Port: Lawmaker accuses attorney general of making inappropriate comments about an officer-involved shooting
MINOT, N.D. — A high-speed chase that ended in an officer-involved shooting in Bismarck is now at the center of a spat...
Port: Veterans group says they aren’t involved in charitable gaming, but is that true?
MINOT, N.D. — According to a regulatory complaint filed by Attorney General Drew Wrigley's office, an interconnected group of gaming companies used...
Port: This is not the way to make criminal justice policy
MINOT — In recent legislative cycles, North Dakota's leaders have made great strides toward a more enlightened approach to criminal...
Port: Gender transition surgery and medicine, which carry permanent side effects, can wait for adulthood
MINOT, N.D. — The way this Legislature in Bismarck has pursued an aggressive policy against the LGBTQ community, generally, and...
Port: From Bismarck to Washington, D.C., Trump-era Republicanism is about authoritarianism
MINOT, N.D. — Over lunch today, a Republican friend and I discussed the political realignment at work in America. Specifically,...
Port: Prigs and prudes in the Legislature send book ban to Gov. Burgum’s desk
MINOT, N.D. — It was hard not to feel depressed last night, as I watched a majority of the North...
Port: ND’s self-righteous lawmakers unwittingly aligned themselves with communist China today
MINOT, N.D. — That our Legislature has, this year, been frequently waylaid by fracas around culture war trivialities is evident...
