Not Prostitutes: Energy Industry Provides Jobs And Opportunity For Women
“Fracking as an industry serves men; 95 percent of the people employed in the gas fields are men,” ecologist and...
Month: May 2015
Rod St. Aubyn: Own Up To Your Mistakes
When I was in college I experienced something that stuck with me forever. Late one evening most of the people...
North Dakota Democrats Shifting To The Right On Trade?
Last night the U.S. Senate passed a trade bill that gives the executive branch a "fast track" process to bringing...
Tony Gehrig: Fargo Citizens Can Get A Tax Break Without Changing Budgets
Fargo residents have not seen a reduction in Fargo’s share of property tax for decades and recent state buy downs...
Matt Evans: Leadership In Scouting Is About Ideas Not People
Yesterday, Rob reported that the current leader of the Boy Scouts stated that he wanted to lift the ban on...
When Social Change Doesn't Require Courts Or Laws: Boy Scouts Reconsidering Ban On Gay Leaders
"We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be. The status quo...
Three Affiliated Tribes Crying Wolf Over Oil Tax Changes
During the closing weeks of the 2015 legislative session lawmakers went to battle over a contentious reform to the state's...
Doug Leier: Why Deer Tags Are Down In North Dakota
The late Dean Hildebrand, North Dakota Game and Fish Department director from 1996 through 2005, had a number of quotes...
North Dakota General Fund Tax Revenues Down 16.7 Percent In April
Oil prices have fallen, and oil activity in North Dakota has slowed down. This is showing up in the state...
On Fictionalized Rape And Painted Breasts
Recently the decision by a Fox television affiliate to blur out the breasts in a Pablo Picasso painting shown on...
