This video sums up the toxicity in North Dakota politics everyone is talking about
MINOT, N.D. — Reporter Jeremy Turley has an excellent profile of the growing toxicity in North Dakota politics coming, for the most...
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Plain Talk: Studying misinformation, and a homophobic attack from a state lawmaker
Misinformation. Fake news. These are terms we hear a lot in America in 2021, but what do they mean? How...
Teddy Roosevelt was a racist, but that’s far from all he was
MINOT, N.D. — If we were to engage in some endeavor to illuminate the history of the Five Tribes, who...
Would four-day work weeks … work?
MINOT, N.D. — “I think there’s lots of opportunity for it." That's what Dusty Hillebrand, a North Dakota Job Service employee in...
Plain Talk: Moving North Dakota’s oil industry toward being carbon neutral
Earlier this year Gov. Doug Burgum raised a lot of eyebrows in the political world by announcing a goal for North Dakota's...
When politicians take taxpayer dollars for themselves, they have to answer questions about it
MINOT, N.D. — When is a question an attack? When the politician it's asked of doesn't want to answer it....
Rep. Rick Becker, critic of big government, won’t answer questions about his government loans
MINOT, N.D. — Rep. Rick Becker, a Republican from Bismarck, is the strident ideological martinet who founded the Bastiat Caucus, a rump...
‘Badass Grandmas’ doth protest too much
MINOT, N.D. — The ballot measure which created North Dakota's ethics commission was pushed by a front group for national...
Plain Talk: Replacing the only elected Democrat in western North Dakota
Sen. Erin Oban is the only member of the Democratic-NPL to be elected in western North Dakota. To the extent that...
Friday Mailbag: A Christmas tradition, defending Agatha Christie, common ground on EV, and our shifting political landscape
MINOT, N.D. — Decorating for Christmas might be my favorite family tradition. In my family, it's a very specific tradition....
