Print Column: China Wants Trump to Knuckle Under on Trade, and So Does Heidi Heitkamp
MINOT, N.D.—The Shirky Principle, named for technology writer Clay Shirky, holds that institutions will try to preserve the problem to...
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Ethics Ballot Measure Committee Paid $260,000 to Collect Signatures Despite Claiming It Was a “Volunteer” Effort
A group calling itself the North Dakotans for Public Integrity announced earlier this week that their ballot measure, which would...
Podcast: Majority Leader Al Carlson Talks Infrastructure Spending, and a Discussion About How Men Can Be Victims Too
House Majority Leader Al Carlson joined me on air today to talk about the infrastructure spending program he and other...
To Win Senator Heidi Heitkamp Needs Her Constituents to Feel Pain
Today we got news that America's economy is very, very strong right now. Quarterly GDP numbers are of limited value...
Podcast: Prosecutor Says Legalizing Marijuana Wouldn’t Be Such a Bad Thing
On the radio show today I spoke with Brian Johnson. He works as an assistant state's attorney in Burleigh County,...
Despite Heitkamp Trailing in the Polls National Democrats Make North Dakota’s Senate Seat a “Second Tier” Race
Based on the publicly available polling data we have in North Dakota's Senate race it sure looks like Heidi Heitkamp...
Where’s the Evidence That Football Championships Boost Campus Enrollment?
Collegiate sports at most universities - including North Dakota's two largest campuses, UND and NDSU in Grand Forks and Fargo...
One of North Dakota’s Biggest Proponents of the Corporate Farming Ban May Have Inadvertently Triggered Its Demise
Back in 2016, as political extremists demonstrated violently against the Dakota Access Pipeline the owner of the historic Cannonball Ranch...
Republican Legislative Leaders Announce Propose New Funds for Infrastructure (And Hint at Legacy Fund Lending Program)
The leadership of the North Dakota Legislature - specifically House Majority Leader Al Carlson, a Republican from Fargo, and Senate...
Heidi Heitkamp Comes Out Against Trade War Mitigation Her Political Mentor Supported
I think we can adapt the Shirky Principle to politics by saying that politicians are opposed to fixing problems that...
