Roscoe Streyle: North Dakota Won’t Be the Best Place for Education if We Don’t Make the Investments
This guest post was submitted by Minot resident Roscoe Streyle who served in the state House from 2011 to 2018....
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Plain Talk: Shouldn’t Universities Exist Because We Need Them, and Not Because of the Law?
On this episode of Plain Talk, legislation proposed in Bismarck would remove mandates for eight of North Dakota's 11 institutions...
City Tells Citizens Who Can’t Vote in City Elections They Have to Pay Double for Building Permits
Extra-territorial zoning is an odd bit of North Dakota law which allows for municipal governments to extend their governance beyond...
Senator Nicole Poolman: Setting the Facts Straight About Voter ID in North Dakota
This guest post was submitted by Republican state Senator Nicole Poolman, Chair of Senate Government and Veterans Affairs Committee and cosponsor...
Video: “People With Disabilities Shouldn’t Be Seen as a Means of Economic Development”
The floor debate today in the state Senate over was probably one of the most frustrating spectacles I've seen to...
The Road to Efficient State Government Is Pitted With Potholes of Parochialism
North Dakota has a big budget problem resulting from lawmakers building huge spending increases on top of a oil-boom-era revenue...
Senate Kills Bill Which Would Have Given Representation to Citizens in Extra-Territorial Zoning Areas
Extra-territorial zoning has been a controversial area of policy in North Dakota for some time now. Essentially it's state law...
Audio: Republican Gov Candidate Doug Burgum Says He Doesn’t Know if Trump Is a Disaster, “I Guess We’ll See on Nov 8”
I had Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Burgum on my radio show today. My first question for him was relevant to...
The Honeymoon Will Be Over for Doug Burgum When He Starts Getting Specific on Policy
Doug Burgum won the NDGOP's gubernatorial primary last week by appealing to a faction of conservative Republicans upset with free-spending...
Senator Nicole Poolman: “I’m Worried About the Legislature”
Bismarck state Senator Nicole Poolman was, until Tuesday, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem's running mate on the gubernatorial ticket. But Stenehjem/Poolman...
