Feb 24, 2021
The fighting over close national elections can be vicious. We saw that last year in the heated battle between Joe Biden and Donald Trump where many of the latter's supporters made claims of vote fraud.
But it's not a recent phenomenon. Turn back the clock and you find Democrats in the George W. Bush-era...
Feb 23, 2021
"The policies surrounding renewable energies was a huge part of this problem," Congressman Kelly Armstrong said on this episode of Plain Talk.
The "problem" in question are the power outages that have recently plagued Texas and a vast swath of the middle of America. For Armstrong, it illustrates not just the absurdity...
Feb 19, 2021
Power outages touched millions of Americans this week, including North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer.
"I actually had a 45-minute blackout," he said on this the 200th episode of Plain Talk.
What can be done to prevent these sort of blackouts in the future? A lot of energy policy gets made at the state level, for a lot of...
Feb 18, 2021
"We have a bit of a crisis in K-12 education right now," North Dakota Superintendent Kirsten Baesler said on this episode of Plain Talk.
At issue is the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it's had on the state's schools. While some of the testing and other measurements of academic progress vary from district to district,...