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Green Mandates Cost Minnesota Utility Customers $70 Million Last Year
“Right now we’re paying for wind we don’t need, we can’t use and can’t sell,” says Mark Glaess, Minnesota Rural Electric Association executive director. Meaning that green power is like a self-licking...
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Energy Prices Highest Ever Recorded In May
As President Obama pushes his “war on coal” and other supposedly “green” energy policies, energy prices hit their highest level ever recorded by the BLS: (CNSNews.com) – The price of electricity in the...
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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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Vaping Seems To Be Replacing Smoking, Not Luring People To It
This coming session our lawmakers will be considering legislation which would continue to treat vaping, or “e-cigarettes,” as though it were just like actual smoking. Already the state included vaping...
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Matt Evans: Defending Kevin Cramer To Conservatives
Someone has kidnapped Matt Evans and written this column under his name. Evans, you see, is a tireless critic of government. He has no tolerance for politicians who don’t say what they mean. He is...
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Dickinson State Loses Grant Money Intended For Scholarships
I say that Dickinson State University is losing money for scholarships not because they’ll never get it – the folks on the North Dakota Challenge Fund Grant Review Committee say the money will be...
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North Dakota Added Over 16,000 Workers In Last Year
Oil price concerns weigh heavy on the minds of many North Dakota leaders, but for now the state’s economy remains strong. We just got another datapoint proving it today with the latest state labor...
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If Only Our Government Got As Much Coverage As Football
Bison football has become such a big deal in North Dakota that the media is now running coverage about how much coverage the football team gets. It’s all very meta. Not that it ever takes much for the...
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Less Than 100 Sign Dakota Resource Council Petition To Audit Oil Regulators
It often seems as though the left-wing activists who are out to stop fossil fuel energy development get an inordinate amount of attention from the media, far in excess of their actual on-the-ground...
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Bette Grande: Policy And Budget Choices In A Time Of Great Uncertainty
With the ND legislative session a few weeks away there are many things to ponder over the holidays. There are opinions on every side about the impact and duration of lower global oil prices, but we...
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