Port: Wouldn’t it be nice if political leaders respected both immigrants and the need for border security?
MINOT, N.D. — The largely unserious demagogues who, at least nominally, are our leaders at the national level have been...
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Port: North Dakota’s open records laws, election conspiracies, and the tyranny of the confidently incorrect
MINOT, N.D. — A week ago I wrote about the legions of dopes and dupes who are flooding North Dakota election officials,...
Port: As Trump embraces the Qanon movement, when are North Dakota’s Republicans going to turn away?
MINOT, N.D. — “What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?" Those were the words...
Port: Let’s acknowledge the deceit at the heart of Cara Mund’s US House campaign
MINOT, N.D. — I like Cara Mund. I'm impressed by her political acumen. But there is something fundamentally deceptive about...
Plain Talk: Gov. Burgum says North Dakota’s baby boom is driving a need for new child care policy
MINOT, N.D. — When I began my writing career 20 years ago, North Dakota had an aging, shrinking population. Our...
Port: Congratulations to Mac Schneider, but we need to pick up the pace with these appointments
MINOT, N.D. — I was happy to hear that Mac Schneider, a former leader of the Democratic-NPL caucus in the...
Port: A national abortion ban isn’t any more constitutional than Roe v. Wade was
MINOT, N.D. — For decades after a previous iteration of the U.S. Supreme Court, with the Roe v. Wade decision,...
Plain Talk: In first debate, attorney general candidates clash over crime, marijuana, and more
MINOT, N.D. — If there's one thing we learned from the first debate between North Dakota's candidates for attorney general,...
Here’s 12 minutes of Senate candidate Rick Becker whining about how Republicans don’t like him any more
MINOT, N.D. — One of my favorite genres of social media umbrage is "I'm not bothered by this thing I'm...
But property taxes’ is not a good argument against flattening North Dakota’s income taxes
MINOT, N.D. — Last month a group of Republican leaders — including Gov. Doug Burgum, Tax Commissioner Brian Kroshus, and...
