North Dakota Lawmakers Proposing Fixing The State's Ridiculous Oil Tax Trigger
North Dakota's existing oil tax code is a disgrace to public policy. Among other confusing exemptions it includes two triggers...
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Dalrymple Administration Beclowns Themselves On Discrimination Policy
Shortly after Republicans in the state House took a tough stand against SB2279, an anti-discrimination bill, Governor Jack Dalrymple decided...
ND Senate Kills Tuition Bill, Blames Student Debt On Students
There's an old saw, usually attributed erroneously to Albert Einstein, about insanity being defined as doing the same thing over...
ND Senate Says No To Earlier Sunday Booze Sales
HB1434, introduced by Rep. Marie Strinden (D-Grand Forks) would have allowed for restaurants to begin serving alcohol one hour earlier...
Ahead Of Revenue Forecast Dems Doing Oil Tax Trigger Damage Control
There is absolutely no question at this point that the decision by lawmakers in 2013 to rid the state's oil...
Senate Democrats Trying To Resurrect Student Privacy Issue
Earlier this week a Democrat bill to exempt student directory information from open records laws (inspired by some partisan grandstanding during...
Election Day Criminal Complaint Filed By ND Democrats Results In No Charges
Democrats and left-wing activists making wild legal accusations before election day, which ultimately get rejected after election day, has become something...
Democrat Superminority Makes Political Hay Over Surge Funding
If there is one silver lining for North Dakota's superminority Democrats, it's that they don't really have to take responsibility...
After Lengthy Debate, And With Some Serious Misgivings, Senate Narrowly Approves Melicher For SBHE
Despite an abysmal performance in support of his own candidacy before a Senate committee, resulting in that committee recommending against...
House And Senate Leaders Back Amendment Requiring That Lawmakers Live In Their Districts
Back in 2013 SAB was the first to report that multiple lawmakers were no longer living in their legislative districts...
