politics

The slate of candidates is now set for the 2012 election with Friday, April 13, the filing deadline for contenders wishing to run for elected office in North Dakota. In...

Fargo business owner and former legislative legal aide Mark Puppe has filed the necessary forms as a candidate for the North Dakota House on the June 12 primary ballot. He...

"We are tired of it and we won't take it anymore." Those are the sentiments of folks in the City of Oxbow south of Fargo who feel they are getting...

In 2010, Minot became the first city in North Dakota to adopt the Minneapolis-based "Feed My Starving Children" food-packing program for starvation-impacted children. With the municipal auditorium for a staging...

Measure 2 will negatively impact the delivery of benefit services to veterans and county employees if it passes. It appears to me from reading the relevant statutes that if Measure...

Ballooning land and commodity prices will have only a nominal impact on property taxes. The outrageous land prices, as much as $5,000 an acre in the Red River Valley, would...

Measure 2 is, without question, one of the most consequential policy questions that has been presented before the state. How many times have you heard that implication as a Dooms...

North Dakota's business continues to be done by your legislators at interim study committees. The Legislative Audit and Fiscal Review Committee (LAFRC) met March 27 to receive audit reports on...

Just about everyone is unhappy with civic affairs in America these days. Congress and many other public institutions are held in low regard. We have turned into a nation of...

District 22 Republicans held their endorsement convention on Saturday, March 10, in the Casselton City Hall Auditorium endorsing incumbents Senator Gary A. Lee and Representative Wes Belter and newcomer Peter...

What started out as a quarrel over the Sioux logo has now become a major threat to the authority of the Board of Higher Education. The Supreme Court decision, whatever...

One of the most common curiosities about North Dakota politics during the past few years has been the mystery of a heavily Republican state being represented in Washington by three...