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Jul 31, 2024

Rep. Kelly Armstrong, who is currently in the midst of a campaign to become North Dakota's next governor, has had a long career in public service. On this episode of Plain Talk, he told my co-host Chad Oban and I what his proudest moment has been from that career (so far, he's still a young man in political years).

He...


Jul 26, 2024

In 2018, North Dakota voters approved a ballot measure creating the state Ethics Commission.

The commission was implemented in 2019, and that first year, it received just 2 complaints. There were 3 in 2020, 9 in 2021, then a spike (right around election time) in 2022 to 14. There were 14 complaints again in 2023, and so...


Jul 24, 2024

Many Republicans are trying to argue that President Joe Biden opting to end his re-election campaign, and the subsequent consolidation of Democrats behind the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris, was a "coup."

Was it? My co-host Chad Oban and I discussed it on this episode of Plain Talk, where we were also joined...


Jul 22, 2024

When President Joe Biden announced an end to his re-election campaign, Adam Goldwyn, chairman of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL, participated in a call with his counterparts from around the country that resulted in a unanimous endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to replace the incumbent at the top of...


Jul 19, 2024

Dickinson State University, one of the North Dakota University System's four-year institutions, has been thrown into chaos by a labor dispute with a group of nursing faculty.

First the faculty, after rejecting a new contract aimed at tamping down what DSU President Stephen Easton too much spending on a program that...