legislative session

Rob Port February 19, 2013 10

Lost in the media celebration following the Attorney General Opinion on the NDSU issue is the fact that nothing has...

Rob Port February 14, 2013 23

One of the peculiarities of North Dakota's system of universities is the fact that eight of the eleven campuses, and...

Rob Port February 11, 2013 5

I missed this last week while I was traveling, but I thought this report about Governor Jack Dalrymple testifying in...

Rob Port February 7, 2013 38

In what is perhaps the most obnoxious political stunt to date in the current legislative session, North Dakota Democrats pushed...

Rob Port February 5, 2013 10

Nina Owcharenko from the Heritage Foundation finds support for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion among Republican governors, such as North Dakota's...

Rob Port February 4, 2013 20

There has been tension between the North Dakota legislature and the university system since the 2011 session, and last week...

Rob Port February 3, 2013 18

It seems the editorial page at the Grand Forks Herald has become more and more shrill in its denunciations of...

Rob Port February 2, 2013 6

Your legislators are in to the swing of things now. There are 468 House bills and 375 Senate bills which...

Rob Port January 28, 2013 4

Today Senator Dwight Cook introduced SB2336 (not available online yet) proposing several major changes to North Dakota's oil taxes. He...

Rob Port January 26, 2013 7

We now have two major tax initiatives in front of the legislature. SB2037 is the property tax relief bill proposed...