Month: March 2017

Rob Port March 7, 2017 0

We are getting a new forecast this week for tax revenues in North Dakota. Or so we are told. I’ve...

Rob Port March 6, 2017 0

The floor debate today in the state Senate over was probably one of the most frustrating spectacles I've seen to...

Rob Port March 6, 2017 0

In a letter to the Grand Forks Herald today University of North Dakota professor Thomasine Heitkamp (sister to U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp)...

Rob Port March 6, 2017 0

Left wing protests aimed at blocking a speech by libertarian sociologist Charles Murray turned violent late last week. Not only...

Rob Port March 6, 2017 0

"Senate Bill 2327 would transfer the powers of the Environmental Health Section in the North Dakota Department of Health to...

Rob Port March 6, 2017 0

Last week House Majority Leader Al Carlson dropped a bit of a bombshell on state politics. He announced a proposed...

Rob Port March 3, 2017 0

Legislating is a fraught process, whether it's at the national level or right here in North Dakota. Sometimes emotions run...

Rob Port March 3, 2017 0

North Dakota has a big budget problem resulting from lawmakers building huge spending increases on top of a oil-boom-era revenue...

Rob Port March 2, 2017 0

Amid all the other legal maneuvering by activist lawyers working on behalf of the #NoDAPL movement was a class action...

Rob Port March 2, 2017 0

The months long pipeline protest is apparently over, and the pipeline is now being completed as it was planned through...