National Heritage Area
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
By
Rob
on November 17, 2009 at 08:49 am
The Northern Plains Heritage Foundation, the organization started by state Senator Tracy Potter to receive the millions of our tax dollars to develop a “management plan” for 4.7 million acres…...
Thursday, October 29, 2009
By
Rob
on October 29, 2009 at 09:56 am
Those of you who have been following the National Heritage Area controversy here in North Dakota (read all of my posts on the subject here) you know that federal land…...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By
Rob
on October 13, 2009 at 06:21 am
KFYR has their television report up of the National Heritage Area land grab town hall which happened last night. You can view it by clicking here.. What you’ll see: First,…...
By
Rob
on October 13, 2009 at 03:18 am
The Bismarck Tribune has a story up about last night’s Northern Plains Heritage Foundation public meeting about their National Heritage Area land grab (pictures of the crowd at the link),…...
Monday, October 12, 2009
By
Rob
on October 12, 2009 at 06:09 pm
Earlier today I put out a call for people to attend the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation’s first public hearing about the 4.7 million acre federal land designation grab, and boy…...
By
Rob
on October 12, 2009 at 06:59 am
Tonight at 7:00pm at the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Library the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation, the unelected board that is getting $10 million to develop a management plan for a federal…...
Monday, September 28, 2009
By
Rob
on September 28, 2009 at 01:31 pm
After state Senator Tracy Potter went to Washington DC and lied to Congress about the level of support among local governing entities for the 4.7 million acre Northern Plains Heritage…...
Thursday, September 24, 2009
By
Rob
on September 24, 2009 at 01:03 pm
Those of you who have been following my National Heritage Area coverage (past posts here) know that Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has been protecting the North Dakota property rights that…...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
By
Rob
on September 22, 2009 at 08:06 am
It seems as though they’ll have to be given that it was one of their own Senators who was victimizing them in the first place. Those of you who have…...
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Silly me, I thought it was a felony. From the ND Policy Council on ND Democrat State Senator Tracy Potter: Potter told the US Senate Subcommittee on National Parks, “In…...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
By
Rob
on August 12, 2009 at 06:37 am
Traditionally, the editorial board at the Bismarck Tribune loves federal spending in North Dakota. As a recent example, the National Heritage Area land grab orchestrated (illegally) by state Senator Tracy…...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
By
Rob
on August 4, 2009 at 10:14 am
Last night the Burleigh County Commissioners held a meeting, and on the agenda of that meeting was a discussion about the 5 county, 4.7 million acre National Heritage Area land…...
Thursday, July 30, 2009
By
Rob
on July 30, 2009 at 08:14 am
The Burleigh County Commission has put a discussion about the National Heritage Area land grab, which as of right now encompasses all of Burleigh county and four other counties (Morton,…...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
By
Rob
on July 29, 2009 at 05:41 am
One key aspect of the controversy surrounding the 4.7 million acre federal land designation that North Dakota landowners were opted into without any notification is that State Senator Tracy Potter…...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
By
Rob
on July 22, 2009 at 06:54 am
They’re not whiners, like the Fargo Forum called them, at least according to the Tribune which criticizes the manner in which this federal land designation was brought about if not…...
Monday, July 20, 2009
By
Rob
on July 20, 2009 at 08:51 am
How dare they question a federal land designation - complete with $10 million in funding for an unelected board of political activists to develop a “management plan” - that they…...
Sunday, July 19, 2009
By
Rob
on July 19, 2009 at 09:00 am
In the Grand Forks Herald today opinion editor Tom Dennis suggests that concerns over the 4.7 million acre National Heritage Area land grab are exaggerated, though he also suggests that…...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
By
Rob
on July 14, 2009 at 07:47 am
Courtesy of the North Dakota Farm Bureau: According to Senator Dorgan’s office, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed Interior Appropriations bill (HR 2996), including the Heritage Area language (Sec. 115) with…...
Monday, July 13, 2009
By
Rob
on July 13, 2009 at 01:22 pm
Previously I’ve posted on the National Heritage Area land grab by saying that it encompasses 500,000 acres of privately-owned North Dakota land (see all my previous posts here). Little did…...
Sunday, July 12, 2009
By
Rob
on July 12, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Here on Say Anything I’ve been banging the drum on the 500,000 acre (of private land) National Heritage Area issue for over a month now. If you’re a late comer…...
Monday, June 22, 2009
By
Rob
on June 22, 2009 at 03:59 pm
ON TONIGHT’S SHOW: New information indicates that a private group will have a $1,000,000 taxpayer-funded budget to promote management plans for North Dakota’s 500,000 acre National Heritage Area, and that…...
Monday, June 15, 2009
By
Rob
on June 15, 2009 at 01:06 pm
Here’s an interesting update for those of you following the National Heritage Areas story (click here to get my previous posts). A little birdie, who has apparently talked with someone…...
By
Rob
on June 15, 2009 at 06:23 am
A reader, after seeing my posts on the subject (collected here) and hearing me speak about the issue on the radio, emailed state Senator Tracy Potter about the National Heritage…...
Friday, June 12, 2009
By
Rob
on June 12, 2009 at 07:37 am
Update: To download the audio copy of my interview, click here. This morning I was on the Scott Hennen Show opposite state Senator Tracy Potter, the man in charge of…...
Thursday, June 11, 2009
By
Rob
on June 11, 2009 at 06:12 am
Here’s an interesting tidbit of information on the National Heritage Areas controversy (if you’re not up to date on the story, read my past posts here). Looking through lobbying disclosure…...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
By
Rob
on June 10, 2009 at 06:31 am
For those of you keeping track of the National Heritage Areas land grab story here in North Dakota (previous posts here, here and here) there’s a disturbing development. According to…...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
By
Rob
on June 9, 2009 at 01:46 pm
Here’s an update for those of you following the controversy over the National Heritage Area land designation that is effecting over 500,000 acres in North Dakota. Previously it’s been revealed…...
Monday, June 08, 2009
By
Rob
on June 8, 2009 at 12:30 pm
A little over a week ago I posted on news that over a half a million acres of privately-owned land in North Dakota had been handed over to an un-elected,…...
Friday, May 29, 2009
By
Rob
on May 29, 2009 at 11:42 am
And the people who actually own that property? Who weren’t even told it was happening to them? Well, they’re out of luck. “I really feel like they didn’t want us…...
Thursday, September 21, 2006
By
Rob
on September 21, 2006 at 07:01 am
Wonderful. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been invited to speak at Columbia this Friday, University officials confirmed Wednesday night. Ahmadinejad, who has been criticized for promoting Islamic fundamentalist rule in…...
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