Month: January 2017

Rob Port January 30, 2017 0

"We're having a damn tent revival," one legislative observer told me of the debate today over HB1163. "Anybody who watched...

Rob Port January 30, 2017 0

State Rep. Tom Kading, a lawmaker in his first term from Fargo's District 45, has introduced HB1327. If passed, it...

Rob Port January 30, 2017 0

In a video released on social media today North Dakota's only Democrat elected to statewide office says she can't support...

Rob Port January 30, 2017 1

I wish it were not so, but I'm afraid this weekend is a preview of what American politics will be...

Rob Port January 28, 2017 0

In the annals of clueless, slanted, utterly out-of-touch national media reporting from the #NoDAPL protests in south central North Dakota this...

Rob Port January 27, 2017 0

The North Dakota House of Representatives today spent more than twenty minutes of floor time debating a bill which would...

Rob Port January 27, 2017 0

I've always seen a lot of similarities between Governor Doug Burgum and President Donald Trump. Not in terms of rhetorical...

Rob Port January 27, 2017 0

Back in early December I wrote that the #NoDAPL movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline had taken in, at that...

Rob Port January 27, 2017 0

President Donald Trump insists that Mexico will be paying for his proposed border wall between our two countries. Mexico, meanwhile,...

Rob Port January 27, 2017 0

After a contentious election cycle, it is time for lawmakers to begin binding up division across the nation. The American...