Hoeven: A victory for the Missouri River Basin
This week, we scored a major victory for the people who live and work throughout the Missouri River basin. The U.S. Senate passed the States’ Water Rights Act, legislation I introduced and attached to the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) to bar the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from charging a storage fee for water drawn from the Missouri River reservoirs.
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The legislative leadership responsible for the big tax cuts is calling them “the largest tax-relief package this state has ever seen.”
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The 2013 legislative session is now over, with the traditional closing words “Sine Die.” With this Legislature, that could easily be interpreted as “good riddance.”
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My house has never looked better. In fact, I’ve never seen it like this. Every single room is perfectly tidy. There is no clutter anywhere. Every paint scratch has been touched up, every floor is clean. Every dish is put away, and each hairdryer and similar appliance (with three girls, I have a lot of them) has its cord carefully wound and is “just so” on the shelf.
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Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer earlier this month delivered a commencement speech in which he sought to tie school shootings to legalized abortion. “Forty years ago, the United States Supreme Court sanctioned abortion on demand,” he said in his speech at the University of Mary on May 4. “And we wonder why our culture sees school shootings so often.”
RELATED CONTENTLetter to the Editor: The passing of an agricultural leader
Southwestern North Dakota and the state as a whole lost a giant in agricultural advancement with the passing of Lavern (Ole) Linnel for Killdeer.
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It’s been likened to an alien spaceship landing; a gigantic greenhouse; a dream job for the people who make Windex.
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North Dakota will add 144 full-time equivalent positions to state government’s workforce in the next few months. The 2013 Legislature approved the job growth. Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s budget proposal had called for more state employees in specific classifications to deal with rapidly rising demand for state services.
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What are we to make of an announcement May 9 that the State Board of Higher Education passed a resolution to conduct a job performance review of Chancellor Hamid Shirvani?
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As all of us have learned at our mother’s knee, “thank you” is a phrase that goes a long way.
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You know what our problem is? We think only in terms of “steps.” But life really isn’t about steps. It’s about the next step. Forget the “s.”
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Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner, R-Dickinson, and House Majority Leader Al Carlson, R-Fargo, recently boasted on the pages of this newspaper that they “got the job done for the citizens” of North Dakota.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who follows the news that these past several months have been challenging for me and the members of the State Board of Higher Education.
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