North Dakota

Rob Port September 11, 2015 0

Yesterday, in a procedure that turns on its head the assignment of powers in the Constitution, Senate Democrats blocked a...

Rob Port September 10, 2015 0

Political prognostication is fun! When vacancy opens in an office as consequential as governor, people like to speculate about who...

Rob Port September 9, 2015 0

Last month a friend asked me to place a bet. "How many governor hopefuls at the convention next spring?" he...

Rob Port September 9, 2015 0

Earlier today Senator Heidi Heitkamp announced that she's not running for governor in 2016 (during a call-in to a left...

Rob Port September 9, 2015 0

UPDATE: Heitkamp says officially that she's not running. According to the Bismarck Tribune's Nick Smith, Senator Heidi Heitkamp will appear on...

Rob Port September 9, 2015 0

North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has, along with 14 other governors, signed a letter to President Barack Obama (see below)...

Rob Port September 8, 2015 0

"An analysis of data from leading oil- and gas-producing states found more than 180 million gallons of wastewater spilled from...

Rob Port September 5, 2015 0

North Dakota State Treasurer Kelly Schmidt, a Republican, told me in a phone interview this afternoon that she's considering a...

Rob Port September 4, 2015 0

UPDATE: Per KNOX radio host Ryan Cunningham, "No one from the Empire Arts Center will attend today's meeting." He adds that...

Rob Port September 3, 2015 0

A man who is not a University of North Dakota student claims to have been taunted and assaulted because of his...