Should We Let Local Candidates Identify a Political Party?
Currently in North Dakota county and city-level elected officials are supposedly non-partisan. Which is a bit of a joke. Those...
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Bill Would Require Transparency for Executive Branch Travel and Security Costs
Last year state Auditor Josh Gallion, a Republican, released an audit of executive branch travel and security costs (though the...
Burgum Needs to Give up on Declining His Salary
I hate that our politicians, exploiting the populist mores of the electorate, are making a spectacle out of declining their...
Bill Would Require Bible Study Elective in North Dakota Schools
Here's a candidate for the dumbest piece of legislation in the 2019 legislative session. SB2136, sponsored by state Senator Oley...
State Lawmakers Should Be Wary of Their Own Revenue Forecast
In North Dakota, when the politicians are writing budgets, they aren't spending money they have. They're spending money revenue forecasts...
Public Health Officials Need to Stop Treating Vaping as Though It Were the Same as Smoking
Should we care that much if teen's vape? It's a question I asked in a recent print column - my...
Kudos to Governor Doug Burgum for Displaying Tribal Flags
I meant to write about this yesterday, but one of the best moments of Governor Doug Burgum's State of the...
When Subsidies Make Things More Expensive
When the government creates a subsidy the justification for the policy usually has to do with making the subsidized thing...
North Dakota Property Owners Shouldn’t Have to Post Their Land to Control Access
There were hundreds of arrests made during the violent protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline a couple of years back,...
Bill Would Require Double Legislative Approval of Constitutional Amendments Initiated by Petitions
There is a lot of concern among some political observers - including this one - that the initiated measure process...
