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Rob Port August 8, 2018 0

MINOT, N.D. — As we approach the home stretch of the 2018 campaigns North Dakota's Democrats are trying to make...

Rob Port August 6, 2018 0

MINOT, N.D.—In 2009 the North Dakota Legislature passed a constitutional amendment to create a fund out of a portion of...

Rob Port August 1, 2018 0

MINOT, N.D. — There are some who defend initiated ballot measures, the method through which distracted voters decide complicated policy...

Rob Port July 30, 2018 0

MINOT, N.D.—The Shirky Principle, named for technology writer Clay Shirky, holds that institutions will try to preserve the problem to...

Rob Port July 15, 2018 0

MINOT, N.D.—One of the most bedeviling problems facing the great state of North Dakota are chronic labor shortages, as generations...

Rob Port July 11, 2018 0

MINOT, N.D.—This week organizers of a ballot measure aimed at legalizing recreational marijuana turned in an estimated 18,700 signatures to...

Rob Port June 20, 2018 0

Criticize North Dakota's initiated measure laws, the process whereby citizens can collect signatures and enact policy directly through a vote,...

Rob Port May 23, 2018 0

On my radio show Monday, as I discussed Republican Will Gardner's departure from the Secretary of State race, I tried...

Rob Port May 2, 2018 0

MINOT, N.D.—"The for sale sign is out," Whiting Petroleum Corp. CEO Brad Holly told the Denver Business Journal recently. "We're...

Rob Port April 22, 2018 0

MINOT, N.D. — Gov. Doug Burgum released his budget guidelines for the 2019-2012 biennium this week, and the tone of...