As a political science professor and a recovering government reorganizer, I was impressed by the inaugural address of Governor Doug Burgum. And the more he talked the more impressed I became.
Those of us at BNSF Railway are compelled to respond to Lloyd Omdahl's latest column ("Pipeline delay perpetuates rumor mill"). We are in no way connected to protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Until this column, ridiculous rumors to the...
The decision of the Corps of Engineers to stop construction of the Dakota Access pipeline serves no one well. The decision does nothing but provide false hope to the Standing Rock Sioux, increases community polarization and perpetuates a destruct...
In theory, North Dakota Republicans and Democrats believe in a two-party system but in practice Republicans believe in a one-party system. They have proven this by their relentless efforts to legislate the Democratic Party out of existence.
U. S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has introduced a resolution calling for replacement of the Electoral College with a direct popular vote. Since Hilliary Clinton won the popular vote and lost in the Electoral College, the resolution looks more like ...
"I hope we're not here for some sort of political wake," declared Madeleine Morgan as she burst into the room for another meeting of the Homeland Security Committee.
It has been said that experience is a hard teacher and we learn no other way. So we should take a little time for hindsight so we have more foresight in 2020.
If North Dakota doesn't take the initiative to settle the conflict at the construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the confrontation will become uglier and the likelihood of a wholesale outbreak of hostilities will result. With guns galor...
Measure 3 on North Dakota's statewide ballot calls for inserting a series of victim's rights, called Marsy's Law, into the state constitution. Financed by California Billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III, the North Dakota effort is chaired by Kathlee...
Doug Burgum, probable-governor-elect, is making bold plans to get North Dakota thinking outside of the box in the same fashion as he did when overcoming barriers to creating the billion-dollar Great Plains Software empire.
GRAND FORKS--When the initiated proposal for Marsy's Law, backed by California billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III appeared in North Dakota, native commentators worried about out-of-state meddling in the state's initiative process.
GRAND FORKS -- North Dakota voters will be casting ballots in November on an initiated measure that would add $1.73 to the present cigarette tax of 44 cents. It would be the first cigarette tax hike in 23 years.After two bipartisan bills in the 2...
GRAND FORKS At the close of the North Dakota special legislative session, the leadership announced it would be making reforms in the January session to prevent a repeat of the recent fiscal crisis caused by a plunge in oil and farm commodity prices.
