Tobacco Tax Hike Measure Sponsors Fix Inaccurate Campaign Finance Report
Yesterday I flagged something fishy about the campaign finance disclosures filed by Raise It For Health, the initiated measure sponsoring...
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John Andrist: It’s Hard to Imagine a World Without Volunteers
Volunteers are good for nothing! Or perhaps I should say “Volunteers are good -- for nothing”. It’s one of those...
Tribe Protesting Dakota Access Pipeline Didn’t Bother to Show up to Regulatory Hearings
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has been hosting a (not at all peaceful) protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline near...
Video: The Protests Against the Dakota Access Pipeline Are Not Peaceful
As we see increasing local and national coverage of the protests on the Standing Rock reservation of the Dakota Access...
Tying Funding for Veterans and the Mentally Ill to Tobacco Tax Revenues Is Counterproductive and Hypocritical Policy
A 400 percent increase in North Dakota's tax on cigarettes (and a big hike on other tobacco products, which are...
UND President Mark Kennedy Is Already Doing Better Than Dean Bresciani
Yesterday new University of North Dakota President Mark Kennedy dropped something of a bomb on his athletics department. In an...
Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Marvin Nelson Wants You to Fix His Cadillac
In North Dakota there is no law prohibiting the use of campaign dollars for personal things. Under our state law if...
Funny How Nobody Wants Rent Control When Rents Are Falling
Two years ago, in the throes of a housing shortage driven by the Bakken oil boom, the Williston Herald called for...
John Andrist: The Feds Shouldn’t Own Lands Without Purpose
Reflecting this week on federal land ownership in this country, I googled for information. And I learned quite a bit,...
The Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Which Isn’t Really About a Pipeline
Things are getting heated on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation as activists strut before the news media and bait law...
