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Video: Lawmakers Slam Civics Test Bill Through State House For Some Reason
For some reason today the North Dakota House slammed through a bill requiring that students in the state take the same civics test that immigrants take. Meanwhile legislation to address state...
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North Dakota Supreme Court Criminalizes The 4th Amendment
The North Dakota Supreme Court today dealt a major blow to privacy rights in ruling that it’s ok to criminalize the exercise of your 4th amendment rights. Here’s what happened. During the 2013...
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Matt Evans: Civics Test Legislation May Create Conflict With Homeschooling Law
The new legislative session has arrived. Now is the time to pay attention to what bills are hitting the floor, and to proactively communicate with your representatives about the issues that are...
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Democrat Budget Proposal Should Have Begun With An Apology On Oil Taxes
You have to hand it to North Dakota Democrats. What they lack in electability they make up for in chutzpah. Yesterday a group of Democrat lawmakers got together and called for the state to create two...
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It’s Western Lawmakers Vs. Governor Dalrymple On Western Funding
Now that they’ve rushed through the really important legislation, lawmakers today are addressing funding for western North Dakota. Both Governor Jack Dalrymple and a group of western lawmakers have...
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Frank Burggraf: Extend The Moratorium On UND Nickname
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. It is time to put things into perspective. What was the reason we are being asked to move on? Hostile &...
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Video: UND Researcher Defends Campus Rape Junk Science
Sarah Edwards, a professor at the University of North Dakota, was one of the researchers responsible for that junk science paper claiming that a third of college males would rape a woman if they...
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UND Task Force Recommends No Nickname As A Permanent Option
At the legislature, University of North Dakota officials showed up to testify against a bill introduced by Rep. Scott Louser which would extend the moratorium on the school picking a new nickname (that...
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VIDEO: ND House Decisively Defeats UND Nickname Moratorium Bill, 21-62
There were eleven members of the North Dakota House absent today as a flu bug sweeps through the state capitol, but that didn’t make the difference in HB1155 which was Rep. Scott Louser’s bill to...
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The ND House Tackles A Batch Of Property Tax Bills
Yesterday the state House addressed a slew of property tax bills (a full summary of the bills and outcomes below), including Governor Jack Dalrymple’s supposed “property tax relief” bill, which I...
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After “Nazi” Twitter Controversy, Democrat Rep. Jessica Haak At It Again
I don’t think Rep. Jessica Haak needs any introduction to the SAB audience. She’s the Jamestown-area Democrat who called House Majority Leader Al Carlson a “Nazi” on Twitter and was later forced to...
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Amendment To Let State Of North Dakota Write Checks To Individuals Fails
It’s a bit ironic that HCR3036 failed today. The constitutional amendment, introduced by Rep. Vicki Steiner, would add to the Article X Section 18 state constitution the following language allowing the...
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Oil Tax Cuts Fall Flat In North Dakota House
With no debate, outside of bill carrier Rep. Craig Headland explaining his committee’s “do not pass” recommendation for the bill, the most controversial tax bill before this legislature fell flat on...
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Senate Appropriations Committee Poised To Chop $376 Million Out Of House...
Earlier this session the North Dakota House passed HB1250, introduced by Rep. Craig Headland, which represented over a half-billion in tax relief. Here’s what that bill does, as passed by the House on...
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Senate To Vote On $350 Million In Income Tax Cuts, $250 Million More Likely...
“We are bringing 1250 up to the floor for a vote,” a state Senator told me this morning. That’s the income tax cuts introduced by Rep. Craig Headland which, when passed in the House, totaled over $500...
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North Dakota Senate Kills $352 Million Income Tax Package
Yesterday I wrote of the food fight going on between the North Dakota House and the Senate over HB1250, a package of income tax cuts. Well, yesterday evening the House (after much contentions debate)...
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North Dakota House Caves, Approves Senate’s Smaller Income Tax Cuts
Back in February the House passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Craig Headland which would have reduced the state’s corporate and personal income taxes by more than $500 million. “The question now is, how...
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North Dakota District Conventions: Districts 12 and 29 Jamestown and...
This post is part of a continuing series highlighting the potential state legislative candidates from each district for their party’s nomination. For more information on this series, refer to the...
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Ironic: Governor Dalrymple Gets Credit For Other People’s Tax Cuts
The Cato Institute today released their analysis of gubernatorial performance on fiscal issues. North Dakota’s Jack Dalrymple got a pretty good grade, coming in 12th in the nation, though I’m not sure...
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Video: House Kills Tobacco Tax Increase, Increase Restrictions On E-Cigs
The House today had one of its most protracted debates of the session to date today. It was related to tobacco and e-cigarettes, and spread over three separate bills. HB1078 adds e-cigarettes to the...
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