Yesterday, I wrote about how North Dakota’s policymakers should look to the tools they have — notably control over state taxes — to boost economic growth in the face of…
Nobody — or almost nobody — enjoys paying taxes. If they did, we wouldn’t have to threaten people with jail to make them pay. They are, at best, a necessary…
Signatures are being collected for a constitutional amendment to abolish property taxes in North Dakota. The idea is superficially appealing — who wouldn’t vote to get rid of a tax?…
North Dakota home owners have until March 31 to apply for the state’s new $500 residential property tax credit that was approved in the 2023 legislative session. But thousands took…
Movers and shakers in Fargo got a sneak preview of the fate of their $140 million ballot measure to expand the Fargodome, when West Fargo school district voters soundly rejected…
West Fargo school administrators continue to wrestle with the reasons behind the abysmally low voter turnout for the district’s $147 million bonding special election that went down in flames. Despite…
The sizable property tax and utility fee hikes first proposed by the Fargo City Commission this summer set off alarm bells at The Forum editorial board. The headline of the…
Earlier this month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO, f/k/a General Accounting Office) issued a report on the fraud around Covid-related unemployment insurance (UI) payments. It seems like the headline should have…
The controversial project broke ground in Medora this summer and is still on track for a July 4, 2026, opening. The Associated Press (AP) reported late last month that workers…
Fargo and West Fargo city officials have made it clear local property taxes will be increasing come next year. So it came as a surprise when Cass County elected officials…
Across the Red River in Minnesota, the state government saw a forecast surplus of $18 billion as an opportunity to actually raise taxes in the last legislative session. North Dakota,…
The North Dakota Legislature just handed taxpayers the biggest property and income tax cut in state history, more than half a billion dollars overall. But that could be only a…
Downtown Fargo has a problem. It’s gotten so rowdy and noisy on the streets on many nights that city hall has been deluged with complaints. Last summer the controversy got…
The good news (if you might even call it that) is that President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a deal to prevent a default. The bad news…
As soon as June 1, the U.S. government could run out of money to pay its bills. This means that without further borrowing, the U.S. government would not be able…
A line of credit has been added to the state parks’ budget bill to backstop initial construction costs at the proposed Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora. The Bismarck Tribune reports, North Dakota’s state…