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Exaggerating Complaints About Saltwater Spills
When citizens complain about the way they’re governed it’s always important to pay attention. But also worth paying attention to is the scope of the protests. Is dissatisfaction widespread, or isolated...
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It Begins? Oil Company Scales Down North Dakota Operations Due To Oil Prices
“In the next few months, everyone in the oil market will be intently watching the volume of new drilling activity in the shale plays of the United States for any signs of a slowdown in response to the...
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Order For Oil Conditioning Was Likely Too Much Micromanagement For Industry’s...
Back in November, as the North Dakota Industrial Commission was considering new regulations for conditioning crude oil before shipment, I interviewed North Dakota Petroleum Council Vice President Kari...
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North Dakota Is The Best Place In America To Speed
According to the folks at Popular Mechanics the best place in America to drive faster than the speed limit is North Dakota. Maybe the shale oil boom will change this state’s outlook on speeding, but...
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Bette Grande: Are Artificially Low Gas Prices Worth It?
As we enter the winter months and spend time warming up our cars and traveling in the cold, we should be happy about the low gas prices, right? The mainstream media is full of stories about the lower...
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Hey Kevin Cramer, The Lights Are Already Going Out In Minnesota
North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer has an op/ed in the Wall Street Journal today headlined, “Where Will You Be When the Lights Go Out?” “The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), a...
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Yes There Is A Wrong Way To Be A Rape Victim
Recently actress/author/activist Lena Dunham sort of apologized to a man she identified (inadvertently, I guess?) as a rapist in her book Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s...
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The Malthusians Have Been Wrong About Peak Oil For More Than A Century
We were supposed to have run out of oil by now. Yet here we are, with surging domestic oil production and falling gas prices. What the hell happened? The end of oil was first predicted in 1909,...
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Report: North Dakota Tax Revenues Down 46 Percent In Third Quarter
“We expect revenues to remain strong in the next budgeting period,” Governor Jack Dalrymple said in his recent budget address to a joint session of the Legislature. “We expect revenues to continue to...
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Another Company Cuts Back Spending, Drilling In North Dakota Due To Oil Prices
More ugly news for a state that has an aggressive spending budget built on oil tax revenues, despite what Governor Jack Dalrymple has claimed. Two days ago Oasis Petroleum announced that they were...
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North Dakota’s Tax Revenues Did Not Actually Decline 46 Percent In The Third...
Yesterday evening I wrote about a report from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, picked up by Reuters, which described North Dakota’s tax revenues as declining 46.7 percent in the third quarter...
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NDSU President Used Girlfriend’s Email Account To Avoid Open Records Requests?
NDSU President Dean Bresciani is rather famously hostile to government transparency. “Either Dean Bresciani went to the Lois Lerner school of email management, or she went to the Dean Bresciani school,...
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Credit Where It’s Due: Dickinson Press Stands Up For The Public’s Right To Know
I often get accused of being too negative, of only writing about what’s wrong and not what’s right, so let me take a few moments of your time to applaud some people who are doing the right thing....
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Everything You Wanted To Know About North Dakota’s Tax Trigger
With oil prices in a rout, North Dakotans are obviously concerned about what impact that may have on the state’s budget. Governor Jack Dalrymple and lawmakers have increased spending aggressive in past...
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When Environmentalists Obstruct Solutions To Environmental Problems
Very often I get the feeling that environmental groups care far less about the environment than they do about advancing certain political agendas. Case in point, the battle over NORM (or naturally...
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John Dorso: Feds Should Stop Meddling In Local Law Enforcement Matters
That President Obama and his AG Eric Holder are adding to the racial tensions in this country is a point some may argue with. What isn’t being discussed is the insertion of the Federal government into...
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Shauna Theel: Wind Becoming A Valuable Part Of North Dakota’s Energy Boom
The renewable energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) has helped spur private investment in projects that help American workers make more of our energy right here at home, and North Dakota has seen the...
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Kevin Cramer: “Arbitrary Emission Standard” Puts American Power Supply At...
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com “I don’t think many people know how close we came,” Rep. Kevin Cramer said on Fox News Business yesterday, referring to last year’s “polar vortex” and...
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Time For Oil Boom Critics To Give Some Credit On Flaring
To hear some environmental activists and political partisans tell it North Dakota’s oil boom is an ecological disaster. “We’re destroying western North Dakota,” they chorus. Most recently they’ve been...
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Missouri Bill Would Require Father’s Consent For An Abortion
Missouri’s HB131, introduced by Republican state Rep. Rick Brattin, is sure to stir controversy. It requires that a woman seeking an abortion get her husband to sign off unless the pregnancy resulted...
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