Even at Its Peak Violent Crime in the Bakken Oil Patch Was About the Same as the Surrounding Region
Recently my colleague April Baumgarten produced a very thorough report on crime in the region of the Bakken oil fields...
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Roscoe Streyle: The Oil Industry Is Taxed Enough Already
This guest post was submitted by Minot resident Roscoe Streyle. Do more, pay more, we hear it every day from...
Latest Tactic in the Environmental Left’s Drive to Obstruct Human Progress Is to Declare That Plants Have Rights
If plants had rights, would you even be able to mow your lawn? Laugh if you want, but that's the...
Plain Talk: People Targeted by “Red Flag” Law Have to Pay to Defend Their Gun Rights, Oil Industry Pays Half of All North Dakota Taxes
Over the weekend I had an interesting Twitter conversation with state Rep. Karla Rose Hanson, the sponsor of so-called "red...
Over the Past Five Years North Dakota’s Oil Industry Has Paid 50 Percent of All Taxes Collected in the State
"During the Bakken development oil extraction and production taxes are more than 44% of all taxes collected by the state,"...
Why Can’t North Dakota Democrats Stop Lying About Oil Tax Revenues?
During the 2015 legislative session state lawmakers made two changes to North Dakota's oil tax code. First, the eliminated an...
Doing Bad Things to the Environment in the Name of Environmentalism
Certain very large, very noisy factions of the American left have taken to opposing the construction of pipeline infrastructure vigorously....
North Dakota, With Some of the Highest Oil Tax Rates in the Nation, Is Hardly a “Cheap Date”
Our left wing friends like to live in a fairy tale land where North Dakota is some noxious petrostate in...
We Should Use a Term Other Than “Spill” for Oil Field Incidents That Don’t Result in an Actual Spill
Environmental activists, many of whom would like to stop the development of oil resources entirely, like to talk a lot...
North Dakota Sales Tax Revenues up Nearly 10 Percent in 2018’s First Quarter, but the Increases Were Mostly in Oil Country
With lawmakers probably looking at more budget belt tightening in their 2019 session which begins in January news of increased...
