Audio: Lawmaker Says North Dakota’s University System Needs to Change or Go the Way of Blockbuster
Blockbuster Video was a corporate juggernaut. Until it wasn't. The movie rental market got upended by a different approach. Everything...
Month: June 2017
The Government Shouldn’t Compete With Private Businesses for Profits
Garbage collection is a service that, for the most part, ought to be left to the private sector. In some...
State Officials Should Make Decisions Without Consultants More Often
At times it can seem as though many of our state's leaders are incapable of making any decision without a...
Supreme Court Extends Their Blaine Amendment Ruling to Case Involving School Vouchers
Earlier this week I wrote about a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Blaine Amendment laws which prohibit the flow of...
The Federal Government Should Do Less, and the States Should Do More, on Health Care and Insurance Policy
"Let states take over health reform from federal politicians" is the headline for my print column today (here's the version...
NDSU President Dean Bresciani Finally Figured Out How to Keep His Mouth Shut
It wasn't a surprise at all that, after a year of basically being put on probation, NDSU President Dean Bresciani...
Supreme Court Ruling Could Have Big Implications for School Choice Policy in North Dakota
For years now proponents of school choice here in North Dakota have proposed policies which would direct, through one mechanism...
The Head of the North Dakota College Democrats Needs Some Remedial Work on Vocabulary
Last week I wrote that Senator Heidi Heitkamp is the most disingenuous politician in North Dakota. That's because she's pretending...
What if Raising the Minimum Wage Is Bad for People Who Make the Minimum Wage?
Our friends on the left take it as an article of faith that raising the minimum wage is good for...
Heidi Heitkamp Blasted in the New York Times for Being “Uninterested in Sexism and Misogyny”
Here in North Dakota junior Senator Heidi Heitkamp has made a really big deal about the issue of human trafficking....
