Its been a long road for Bismarck native Anne Cleary. Over two years ago, the Bismarck City Commission turned Cleary’s dream of building a home into a nightmare when they rejected her request to build on a vacant lot she [read more…]
The 2019 Legislative Session is shaping up to be an interesting one. And it’s bills like Rep. Tom Kading’s (R – District 45) House Bill 1184 that make it so. Kading is undoubtedly one of the most conservative members of [read more…]
Civil Asset Forfeiture – legal process that enables a government to seize property and other assets belonging to persons suspected of committing a crime. In March of 2017, the North Dakota Legislature did the unthinkable and defeated Rep. Rick Becker’s (R [read more…]
Baseball has historically been known as “America’s Past-time”. But over the years professional football – in particular the National Football League (NFL) – has unquestionably become the most popular sport in America. For many, an afternoon of watching rivalries like [read more…]
I am not a fan of zoning ordinances. The idea that a government entity can dictate to a property owner what they can and cannot do with their own property – when they are not harming anyone – is repulsive [read more…]
A recent Letter to the Editor in the Forum by Fargo resident Ben Lambrecht calls for North Dakota to use the heavy hand of government to stop discrimination against the LGBTQ community in the workplace. A call that has been defeated in [read more…]
A recent decision by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department of Justice to “give new authority to law enforcement agencies to seize money, contraband and property when they can prove those assets are the ill-gotten gains of criminal [read more…]
Some folks in our society are a tad presumptive and oversensitive. Seriously. An apparent outrage broke out last week as some attendees at the Red River Valley Fair discovered a carnival worker giving away bunnies as prizes. Worse than the [read more…]
I’ve been covering the case of Gladstone resident, Gary Dassinger, and about his being put through the wringer on charges of animal abuse and neglect. Charges based on a 2013 law passed in North Dakota with the support of the [read more…]
For Bismarck property owner, Anne Cleary, meeting with the Bismarck City Commission this week was supposed to be an intermediate step towards having a home she only now dreams about and sees on paper. Unfortunately, her dream became a nightmare [read more…]
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