Month: February 2013

Rob Port February 21, 2013 62

There's something ironically hilarious about Senator Byron Dorgan - "the old populist, man of the people" as the reader who...

Rob Port February 21, 2013 32

Senator Heidi Heitkamp is on a statewide tour touting the Senate's passage of the Violence Against Women Act. The intent...

Rob Port February 21, 2013 11

"The college degree is becoming the new high school diploma," writes Catherine Rampell in the New York Times, "the new...

Rob Port February 21, 2013 38

HB1385 is a bill introduced by Rep. Dennis Johnson which would require drug screening before applicants for public assistance in...

Rob Port February 21, 2013 17

Any time rising gas prices become a story, and the media loves to make it a story, the gas price...

Rob Port February 21, 2013 41

Earlier this week the University of North Dakota made national headlines when they suspended a play-by-play announcer, Paul Ralston, for...

Rob Port February 20, 2013 37

"In 2009 underage customers accounted for 30% of all alcohol consumed in this state totaling $69 million in sales," said...

Rob Port February 20, 2013 16

News that Florida Governor Rick Scott, until this point a staunch opponent to Obamacare, capitulating on the expansion of Medicaid...

Rob Port February 20, 2013 11

In his speech carrying SB2059 to the floor, Senator Dick Dever noted an alarming fact that I've written about before...

Rob Port February 20, 2013 5

Last year a group of activists got together and gather signature for petitions to empanel a grand jury charged with...