About a month ago, I was interested in doing an open records request in relation to a member of the North Dakota Legislature’s e-mail communication. I won’t get into the issue, who was involved, or the reason for my interest [read more…]
At the beginning of January, we broke the news that Rep. Luke Simons (R – District 36) was sponsoring legislation — House Bill 1381 — to prohibit taxpayer funded gun buyback programs. In case you’re not familiar with gun buyback programs, they’re used [read more…]
Just two days ago, we published an article discussing the desire of what seems like a multitude of legislators to override Governor Doug Burgum’s veto of Senate Bill 2244. This, of course, is the bill proposing to double commercial and noncommercial [read more…]
Update: I received a message from a member of the legislature that informs me the bill sponsors of SCR 4015 requested that it be killed. My source speculates that the end goal of doing this is to get SCR 4001 [read more…]
When I first wrote about Rep. Dan Johnston’s (R – District 24) House Bill 1052 back in December, I wasn’t speaking hyperbole when I said that I believed it has the potential to be the most impactful piece of legislation [read more…]
We recently published an article expressing our disappointment over the 2019 North Dakota Legislature’s record on taxes. Included in that article was their move to raise driver’s license fees by passing Senate Bill 2244. As a matter of percentage, the [read more…]
A year ago, we published an article in which I expressed skepticism and displeasure with North Dakota’s needle exchange program. The program came into being as a result of the 2017 Legislative Session’s Senate Bill 2320. The basic premise behind the [read more…]
The following article was submitted to The Minuteman by John H. Wilson. In January of 2019, the New York State Legislature crossed a line, and legalized abortions regardless of the stage of pregnancy. In essence, the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) allows [read more…]
On Wednesday, we published an article predicting that the North Dakota Senate would defeat House Bill 1545, which called for the study of replacing property tax with an alternative source of revenue. That was after the Senate Finance & Taxation [read more…]
Rep. Craig Headland’s House Bill 1530 wasn’t my favorite proposal to eliminate the state income tax, but it was better than nothing. Had it passed, it would have used Legacy Fund earnings to reduce income taxes— with the goal of [read more…]
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