Over the years, we’ve been critical of Governor Doug Burgum on a number of issues. That’s to be expected when there’s disagreement on important matters that affect North Dakotans. But the flip side is that it’s also important to give [read more…]
After a long and controversial road for House Bill 1298, it’s dead. Though it gained the necessary 2/3 vote in the House to override Governor Doug Burgum’s veto, the Senate failed to do so— by four votes. As you’re likely [read more…]
Nearly two months ago, proponents of protecting girls’ sports in North Dakota achieved victory when House Bill 1298 passed by a wide margin of 65-26. That came after stellar arguments from Rep. Ben Koppelman (R – District 16) — who [read more…]
I recently wrote about the impressive work of Rep. Ben Koppelman (R – District 16) in presenting his Stand Your Ground legislation (HB 1498) to the House Judiciary Committee. That effort resulted in a 10-1-3 Do Pass recommendation. It hit [read more…]
I wrote late last month about Rep. Jeff Magrum’s (R – District 28) House Bill 1193— also known as the Stand Your Ground Law. While all eyes seemed to be on this legislation — after a somewhat heated committee hearing [read more…]
Late last month, I wrote about Rep. Ben Koppelman’s (R – District 16) efforts to prohibit the state, political subdivisions, and entities receiving public funding from allowing transgender participation in team sports that are “exclusively male or exclusively female”. In [read more…]
In a PC world, that’s too often short on common sense, the North Dakota Legislature is about to have an opportunity to show where they stand on a controversial issue— transgenders in publicly funded sports. Monday morning at 10:45am, Rep. [read more…]
Early last month, we published an article expressing the view that Rep. Corey Mock (D – District 18) deserves credit for coming up with an idea to save more Legacy Fund dollars— rather than spend them. That idea was found [read more…]
Back in February, I wrote that North Dakota’s Food Freedom Law was under attack again. This time it came in the form of Senate Bill 2269, which was sponsored by former grocer and current State Senator and Assistant Majority Leader [read more…]
For more reasons than we can discuss here, North Dakota’s 2019 Legislative Session has largely been a disappointment— especially when it comes to taxes. For example, last month we published an article explaining a number of bills that had the [read more…]
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