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The Post Office Isn’t A Jobs Program
Here in North Dakota a group of postal workers were outside of the federal building in Bismarck today protesting against efficiency measures being considered by Congress to close the alarming deficits...
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Post Office to End Saturday Delivery
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is likely to announce today they will no longer deliver mail on Saturdays, in what can only be viewed as the latest sign of an agency that is well past prime...
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Are We Entitled To Saturday Mail Delivery?
“There is no question that the U.S. Postal Service has serious financial problems, but it is not clear that the proposed changes would save a significant amount of money in the long term,” Senator...
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Cash-Strapped Postal Service Starting Its Own Clothing Line
Well, they can’t make any money actually delivering mail, why not try selling clothes? First the end of Saturday mail, now a new clothing line. The U.S. Postal Service is taking unprecedented steps 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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