Month: June 2021

Rob Port June 8, 2021 0

MINOT, N.D. — At the dawn of every new cycle North Dakota's political parties reorganize themselves. Local, district-level party committees...

Rob Port June 7, 2021 0

MINOT, N.D. — Last month I wrote about North Dakota's State Investment Board using time at a recent meeting to kick around...

Rob Port June 7, 2021 0

MINOT, N.D. — Based on about three decades worth of election results, North Dakota voters don't like much of what...

Rob Port June 7, 2021 0

Coal Creek Station is North Dakota's largest coal-fired power plant and, for a while, it was slated for closure, thanks to...

Rob Port June 4, 2021 0

"I would like us to get the smile back," Sen. Kevin Cramer said in a recent interview. "I mean, we still...

Rob Port June 4, 2021 0

MINOT, N.D. — "The U.S. has outgrown federalism," former Lt. Gov. Lloyd Omdahl tells us. Federalism was an organizing principle during...

Rob Port June 3, 2021 0

MINOT, N.D. — The activists fighting the Line 3 pipeline replacement project (this is an existing pipeline that's being updated by its...

Rob Port June 2, 2021 0

Earl Pomeroy served in the North Dakota House of Representatives from 1980 to 1985, as state Insurance Commissioner from 1985 to...

Rob Port June 2, 2021 0

MINOT, N.D. — The COVID-19 pandemic has given us all an object lesson in why public health officials and experts...

Rob Port June 2, 2021 0

MINOT, N.D. — Things are beginning to get back to normal, as they should. While there are still reasons to...