Month: February 2017

Rob Port February 21, 2017 0

My focus is very much on North Dakota news these days, what with our Legislature in session and all, so...

Rob Port February 21, 2017 0

The Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control - you know then as "BreatheND" - isn't a public health initiative. It's...

Rob Port February 20, 2017 0

Earlier this month a bill which would have required more data collection on the social and fiscal impacts of refugee...

Rob Port February 20, 2017 0

In Congress right now there is an effort to disapprove an Obama administration regulation aimed at the oil industry. The...

Rob Port February 20, 2017 0

Last week I wrote about a report from a tribal newspaper about a roughly $6 million hit the Prairie Knights...

Rob Port February 20, 2017 0

In its original form SB2314, introduced by Republican Senator Jessica Unruh of Beulah, would have addressed power companies seeking rate...

Rob Port February 20, 2017 0

Earlier this month legislation to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity failed in the state Legislature for...

Rob Port February 20, 2017 0

The job of a North Dakota lawmaker isn't over on Friday when they return from Bismarck to their districts. The...

Rob Port February 17, 2017 1

"I'm convinced there's almost nothing there." That's what Congressman Kevin Cramer told me during an interview earlier today referring to...

Rob Port February 17, 2017 0

It wasn't hard to forecast the likely outcome of a House vote today on HCR3004, a proposed constitutional amendment which...