Audio: Godfread Says Medica Leaving Obamacare Exchange “A Sign of Things to Come”
Yesterday Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread ripped Congress for their inaction on healthcare reform while announcing that the insurance company Medica...
Month: September 2017
Ed Schafer: Heidi Heitkamp Could Learn a Lot From Teddy Roosevelt
The news filtered in to North Dakota with a story about U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Maine’s Sen. Susan...
So Much for Heidi Heitkamp’s Bipartisanship
A big part of Senator Heidi Heitkamp's "centrist" brand, a part of the carefully cultivated public perception she hopes will...
The Dakota Access Pipeline Company Shouldn’t Have Given the State of North Dakota a Dime
"Dakota Access Pipeline LLC has donated $15 million to the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services (DES) to help retire...
Governor Burgum May Be Salty About It, but Lawmakers Are Right to Sue Over Vetoes
State lawmakers announced today that they'll be filing a lawsuit challenging some of the vetoes issued by Governor Doug Burgum...
Standing Rock Chairman Who Helped Instigate #NoDAPL Protests Gets Thumped in Re-Election Campaign
The often violent and often unlawful #NoDAPL protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline made David Archambault, chairman of the Standing...
John Andrist: Intellect Applied . . . or Just to Argue?
It’s almost 70 years since I was a high school student, but I still remember a discussion from our Present...
It’s Not Constitutional to Ban Out of State Money for Initiated Measures
A committee convened by the Legislature to review the initiated measure process met this week, and it seems they're taking...
Addressing the 2017 North Dakota Petroleum Council Annual Meeting
Blogging will be a little slow the next couple of days as I'll be traveling to Grand Forks. The folks...
Chancellor Hagerott Blames Republican Politics for His Problems, but That Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test
Last week Chancellor Mark Hagerott was stung by the revelation of an unflattering performance review from 2016 - one alleging...
