State Sales Tax Revenues Miss Forecast by More Than $40 Million in January
North Dakota keeps revising its revenue forecasts down, and actual revenue collections keep coming in even lower. It's a reality...
Month: February 2017
Report: Standing Rock’s Casino Revenue Down Millions After #NoDAPL Protests
"The annual Prairie Knights Casino intake was approximately $14 million in 2015 and dropped to near $8 million in 2016,"...
This Is the Legislation North Dakota Should Have Passed in Response to the #NoDAPL Riots
Yesterday the state Senate passed three of four of the "protest bills" introduced in reaction to the #NoDAPL rioting against...
The Initiated Measure Process Has Not Served North Dakota Well
Today the Bismarck Tribune editorializes against a push by lawmakers a bill creating a commission tasked with reviewing our state's initiated...
It’s Time to Take Marsy’s Law to Court
Last year the voters approved Marsy's Law, a constitutional amendment which will supposedly make our legal system more just by...
The Dakota Access Pipeline Company Shouldn’t Have to Pay for the #NoDAPL Movement’s Mayhem
Back in November I interviewed Kelcy Warren. Warren is the CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, the company which has been...
The University System Isn’t Meant to Be an Employment Program for Professors and Bureaucrats
This letter to the editor in the Grand Forks Herald today is an unfortunate example of why higher education can often...
Audio: Highway Patrol Spokesman Says #NoDAPL Clean up Is “Not Going to Be Fast Enough”
"It's slow moving," Lt. Tom Iverson of the North Dakota Highway Patrol told me yesterday on my radio show (audio...
Forecast Sees Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s Re-Election as a “Coin Flip”
It's very, very early to be talking about the 2018 election cycle, and thanks to Trump having upended conventional wisdom...
John Andrist: It’s Easier to Kill Bills Than Pass New Ideas
I had my first Uber ride last night. Pretty exciting! A friend picked me up in a Uber that whisked...
