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    December 17, 2018
    The Dakota Women's Correctional and Rehabilitation Center in New England, N.D., pictured here April 17, 2012, houses more than 100 female convicted felons. Forum News Service file photo
    Rob Port: Prisons aren’t jobs programs
    Governor Doug Burgum’s executive budget his ignited several debates over policy and spending across the state. Perhaps one of the most heated...
    opinion/columns21 hours 41 min ago
    December 16, 2018
    Rob Port
    Port: Heitkamp’s angry goodbye
    MINOT, N.D. -- This week Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said farewell with an address on the floor of the Senate. The timing was less than ideal.
    opinion/columnsDecember 16, 2018 - 9:12am
    December 13, 2018
    The Belfield American Legion Color Guard marches toward the Belfield Theatre for the town's Memorial Day Services on Monday, May 30, 2016. (Dustin Monke / The Dickinson Press)
    Port: Governor Burgum and a Republican lawmaker want to exempt military pay and pensions from state income taxes and it’s a solid idea
    North Dakota has thousands and thousands of military members, both active duty and retired, living in our state. North Dakota has a chronic labor...
    opinion/columnsDecember 13, 2018 - 10:13am
    December 12, 2018
    The campus of the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton. Special to The Forum.
    Port: North Dakota has seen a significant drop in student loan debt loads
    Are North Dakota students getting smarter about how they finance higher education? It sure seems that way. The cost of attending institutions...
    opinion/columnsDecember 12, 2018 - 9:42am
    Port: Legislative pettiness leads to marginalization of Burgum’s conservative budget
    MINOT, N.D. -- Traditionally in North Dakota the governor's executive budget, delivered to lawmakers as an address in December, is introduced...
    opinion/columnsDecember 12, 2018 - 7:01am
    December 11, 2018
    Congressman Kevin Cramer, U.S. Sen. John Hoeven and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum hosted EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt at a closed roundtable discussion in Fargo Wednesday, Aug. 9. Dave Olson/Forum News Service
    Rob Port: Governor Burgum, Senator-elect Cramer tell NDGOP in letter not to give up open primary
    Last week I wrote about proposed legislation, being considered for endorsement by the North Dakota Republican Party, which if passed would end...
    opinion/columnsDecember 11, 2018 - 7:53pm
    December 10, 2018
    Sen. Heidi Heitkamp concedes the North Dakota senate race, at an election night event in Fargo, N.D., Nov. 6, 2018. (Hilary Swift/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Rob Port: Maybe Heidi Heitkamp could give some of her left over money to her campaign’s victims
    Senator Heidi Heitkamp has a lot of money left over from her unsuccessful 2018 campaign.
    opinion/columnsDecember 10, 2018 - 11:00am
    December 9, 2018
    Rob Port
    Port: Burgum’s proposed pension bailout must be tied to real reforms
    MINOT, N.D. -- It’s not the sexiest political topic, so you might be forgiven if you’re unaware of North Dakota’s chronic problems with...
    opinion/columnsDecember 9, 2018 - 8:49am
    December 7, 2018
    Rob Port: Public Service Commission says North Dakotans can be charged for green energy policies in other states
    The Public Service Commission, in a split decision, recently gave the go-ahead to Xcel Energy to inflate power bills here in North Dakota to...
    opinion/columnsDecember 7, 2018 - 9:32am
    December 5, 2018
    Port: Governor Burgum’s first real budget might be the most fiscally conservative spending plan North Dakota has seen in two decades
    Although he was elected to office in the 2016 election cycle, and headed up the executive branch during the 2017 legislative session, the budget...
    opinion/columnsDecember 5, 2018 - 5:43pm
    Port: Any reform to North Dakota speeding fines should avoid move toward policing for profit
    If there were no risk of death, injury, or property damage on our roads we’d have no need for speeding fines. Unfortunately, that risk exists,...
    opinion/columnsDecember 5, 2018 - 10:33am
    Port: Public must keep a sharp eye on relationship between local politicians, opioid lawyers
    MINOT, N.D. -- More and more local governments in North Dakota are deciding to join themselves to lawsuits against the opioid industry over the...
    opinion/columnsDecember 5, 2018 - 7:08am
    December 4, 2018
    Port: Measure 1 backers send deeply ironic letter to lawmakers insisting they begin work on an ethics committee
    The North Dakotans for Public Integrity, an ostensibly local front group for left wing interests funded by big donations from Hollywood activists,...
    opinion/columnsDecember 4, 2018 - 11:28am
    December 3, 2018
    Wells operate in the oil fields of Texas, where an oil boom is also under way but in a bit of a lull currently. Forum News Service file photo
    Port: 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 the thrall of corrupt politicians who...
    opinion/columnsDecember 3, 2018 - 9:30am
    December 2, 2018
    Port: ADHD, August birthdays and why I’m a conservative
    MINOT, N.D. -- Ideology takes a back seat in modern politics, and that’s not a good thing. People identifying themselves as “conservative”...
    opinion/columnsDecember 2, 2018 - 7:00am
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