Our bad: AFSCME changes story about using tax dollars for union organizing
By Tom Steward | Watchdog Minnesota Bureau ST. PAUL, Minn. — AFSCME has wasted little time reacting to a Watchdog...
Month: January 2014
Illinois taxpayers paying billions to ‘manage’ debt
By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Watchdog SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois taxpayers realize the state is buried in debt. Illinois' worst-in-the-nation...
Breaking the bank: As McAuliffe takes oath, public pensions burden future
MOUNDS OF DEBT: Debt in the Commonwealth totals more than $91 billion, according to a new think tank report, but...
Berg Column: Who Is Looking Out For The Little Guy In North Dakota?
Valley News Live - KVLY/KXJB - Fargo/Grand Forks TRANSCRIPT: Good evening, I'm Chris Berg, thanks for joining us. Tonight's Point...
North Dakota Property Tax Relief Probably Won't Last
The North Dakota state government's approach to property tax relief, under Governors John Hoeven and Jack Dalrymple, has been to...
How Did Democrats Become The Party Of The Rich?
"If you brought back either of the Roosevelts—Teddy or Franklin—from the grave, the most astonishing thing they would find is...
Kingsbury Column: My Version
When my last week's column about higher ed was published I didn't expect the responses it received. As with the...
No apologies from lawmaker who opposes ‘homosexual bills’ and early education
Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog “I don't apologize.” That's the short and long of it from State Sen. Bill Kintner...
What If The Bakken Oil Boom Was Already Slowing Down?
In one of those turn of events in politics that nobody could have predicted, North Dakota Republican Party Chairman Robert...
Report: Nikko Jenkins threatened ‘cannibalism’ and a Von Maur repeat
Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog The fallout from this week's bombshell report on accused mass murderer Nikko Jenkins—the state is...
