Month: March 2015

Rob Port March 20, 2015 0

There's an old saw, usually attributed erroneously to Albert Einstein, about insanity being defined as doing the same thing over...

Rob Port March 20, 2015 0

In the parlance of the North Dakota Legislature, a "hog house" amendment is a change to a bill that completely...

Rob Port March 20, 2015 0

In North Dakota there is a big resource gap between rural schools and urban schools. The urban schools have large...

Rob Port March 20, 2015 0

Yesterday the state Senate defeated HB1434, introduced by Rep. Marie Strinden (D-Grand Forks), which is the the so-called "brunch bill"...

Rob Port March 20, 2015 0

I'm not surprised. Proving guilt in court beyond a reasonable doubt is hard. A simple assault charge against State Superintendent...

Rob Port March 20, 2015 0

Way back in 2013 I broke a story about a number of lawmakers - Democrats and Republicans - not living in...

Rob Port March 20, 2015 0

With oil prices falling there's been a lot of doom and gloom about North Dakota. The state got an ugly...

Rob Port March 20, 2015 0

On March 15 Tom Dennis authored a sensible editorial about e-cigarettes in the Grand Forks Herald. He wrote that “vaping...

Rob Port March 20, 2015 0

Yesterday we got news that no fewer than 19 candidates had applied to be the next chancellor of the North...

Rob Port March 20, 2015 0

The big news of the week was, without a doubt, the new revenue forecast for the state of North Dakota...