Month: June 2017

The North Dakota media is making a big deal about “one of the largest seizures of marijuana in state history” being made Tuesday evening during a traffic stop near Berthold. Apparently 122 pounds of the stuff was confiscated– a street [read more…]

The title of this article is not an embellishment… at all. Those of us who advocate for the abolition of property taxes have said it time and time again. So long as property taxes exist, we will never truly own [read more…]

I look forward to the day when we don’t hear anything more about the Dakota Access Pipeline. The most current issue to arise concerning the pipeline saga has to do with Energy Transfer Partners (the company that built the pipeline) [read more…]

I’m used to being in the minority when it comes to political issues. So, I expect nothing less when it comes to the topic of what I’m about to write. As I was scrolling through my Facebook feed recently, I [read more…]

Five years after Empower the Taxpayer’s failed attempt to abolish property taxes through an initiated measure in North Dakota, the issue is once again a hot topic across the state. A fact that proves what Empower the Taxpayer said all [read more…]

Unless you’ve been in a coma or live in a cave somewhere, you are aware that North Dakota’s economy has been feeling the effects for quite some time now of slumping agricultural and oil prices. The most recent report from [read more…]

Over the last month or so, I have written a few articles about some folks in the Legislature taking issue with Governor Burgum over some vetoes and their desire to reconvene in an attempt to override them. Chief among the [read more…]

  “As I drove to the Stark County Courthouse yesterday to observe court proceedings, I did so with the mentality that there was indeed a possibility that Gary Dassinger is guilty of the charges brought against him. By the time [read more…]

When I was a boy, my Dad let me tag along with him and a friend to visit an Amish community in Montana. I was too young to recall the details regarding the purpose of their visit now. All I [read more…]

Governor Doug Burgum’s former primary opponent for the Republican nomination for governor – Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem – wrote an opinion today that says Burgum overstepped his constitutional authority on some controversial vetoes. The opinion was written at the request [read more…]