Month: October 2020

Rob Port October 21, 2020 0

Trump has brought the rural voice back into play," Shelley Lenz told me on this episode of Plain Talk. Lenz...

Rob Port October 19, 2020 0

MINOT, N.D. — We need to stop debating masks. It's pointless. Local politicians in Minot and Fargo have passed symbolic "mandates" they do not...

Rob Port October 19, 2020 0

MINOT, N.D. — The Legacy Fund has a problem. The roughly $6 billion pot of money, created from a portion...

Rob Port October 19, 2020 1

MINOT, N.D. — Campaign politics is the art of taking complex problems and boiling them down to simplistic talking points...

Rob Port October 15, 2020 0

MINOT, N.D. — "North Dakota's doctors are fed up," reports my colleagues Jeremy Turley and Adam Willis. Their story is about...

Rob Port October 14, 2020 0

MINOT, N.D. — For the most part, candidates representing the Democratic-NPL don't do very well in North Dakota because the...

Rob Port October 14, 2020 0

MINOT, N.D. — Every day, we hear it. The incessant drumbeat about the coronavirus. New cases. New deaths. New food...

Rob Port October 13, 2020 0

MINOT, N.D. — District 8 has become a political battleground this election season. That was true even before Republican state...

Rob Port October 13, 2020 0

This episode of Plain Talk was intended to be a conversation with North Dakota's candidates for superintendent. Sadly, the incumbent,...

Rob Port October 13, 2020 0

MINOT, N.D. — Perhaps Donald Trump's greatest contribution to the Republican Party's legacy will be a shift, prompted by his...