Month: December 2016

Rob Port December 8, 2016 0

For weeks in November we here in North Dakota were inundated with news about thousands of veterans coming to North...

Rob Port December 7, 2016 0

The "Tobacco Taliban" is what state lawmakers, in private moments, call the bureaucratic zealots at the Center for Tobacco Prevention...

Rob Port December 7, 2016 0

The #NoDAPL movement is one built in no small part on half-baked legal reasoning and conspiracy theories. It seems as...

Rob Port December 7, 2016 0

Yesterday we got news from Reuters that delays in completing the Dakota Access Pipeline brought on by intense and often...

Rob Port December 7, 2016 0

In North Dakota state law requires that we convene a session of our Legislature every January in odd-numbered years, just...

Rob Port December 7, 2016 0

This quote from Standing Rock Sioux chairman David Archambault is from a couple of days ago, but a reader just...

Rob Port December 6, 2016 0

"You can't drink oil, keep it in the soil." That's been one of the chants used most often by #NoDAPL...

Rob Port December 6, 2016 0

I had former Governor Ed Schafer on my radio show today and while most of our conversation focused on the...

Rob Port December 6, 2016 0

Back in the middle of last month, before winter descended on North Dakota with a vengeance, I warned #NoDAPL protesters...

Rob Port December 6, 2016 0

Today in an editorial the Fargo Forum seems willing to give the violent, unlawful #NoDAPL protesters a sort of heckler's veto...