2015 legislature

Rob Port April 4, 2015 0

For 25 years when I was director of the North Dakota Legislative Council, I coordinated the chaplaincy program for both...

Rob Port April 3, 2015 0

SB2279 failed this time, but it’s going to pass eventually. Here’s why. SB2279 is really about a fight that most...

Rob Port April 2, 2015 0

The image below will be the front page of tomorrow's Fargo Forum. At this point, I think it's fair to...

Rob Port April 2, 2015 0

The North Dakota House took up SB2279 this afternoon and defeated it soundly after about an hour and a half...

Rob Port April 1, 2015 0

In the 2013 session Rep. Marie Strinden – a Democrat from Grand Forks – introduced HB1412 which would have given immunity...

Rob Port April 1, 2015 0

Should the law protect human conscience or punish it? That is the question before the North Dakota legislature this week in...

Rob Port March 31, 2015 0

A "death by study" is a legislative maneuver that effectively kills a bill by turning it into something the Legislature...

Rob Port March 31, 2015 0

I often hear people complain about North Dakota lawmakers. They're accused of being spendthrifts and in the pockets of special...

Rob Port March 31, 2015 1

When President Obama announced his war on stay at home mothers last fall he probably did not expect North Dakota's...

Rob Port March 27, 2015 0

Earlier this week the state House shot down SB2293 which in its original form would have established a rail safety...