Apr 29, 2022
Carbon capture and storage is a big deal for North Dakota. Not just because our state's economy is dominated by commodity-based industries - energy and agriculture - that emit a lot of carbon, but because the geology under our feet lends itself to storing captured carbon.
There are billions in investments lined across...
Apr 27, 2022
Minot, N.D. — Sen. Jessica Bell, a Republican from District 33, has a lengthy track record of reliably conservative policy making in the North Dakota Senate, which includes her consequential work to save a coal-fired power plant that employs, directly and indirectly, thousands of her constituents.
Yet the delegates at...
Apr 25, 2022
North Dakota's initiated measure process has become a venue for deep-pocketed special interests to hire local fronts, pay mercenaries to collect signatures, and then pound their issues into the heads of voters with big-money marketing campaigns.
What was intended to empower grassroots activists to keep state government...
Apr 22, 2022
Minot, N.D. — Ves Marinov serves the state of North Dakota as a member of the Highway Patrol. He's also a citizen of Fargo who is running for a city on the city's commission.
He's campaigning on a platform of addressing crime, eliminating special assessments, moving the city to a ward system for its elected leaders,...
Apr 20, 2022
Medical marijuana is legal in North Dakota, having been approved by voters by way of a ballot measure.
Recreational marijuana, however, has taken a rockier road. Multiple ballot measure campaigns have failed in the past. House Bill 1420, considered during the last legislative session, and which would have also...