Why schools allowed cell phones to invade the classroom at all remains a mystery to anyone who spends time around teenagers. Yet it’s only now that legislation to ban mobile…
Today, the Biden administration directed the Departments of Energy and Defense to lease public lands to data centers — so long as they’re powered with “clean energy.” The order did…
On January 20, 2025, President Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. One of his top campaign promises was to immediately address the failed immigration…
A new peer-reviewed study finds significant overlap between vulnerable species and solar energy potential in the Southwest. The paper may be read in full here. The Southwest, including large swaths…
In his first State of the State address given on Tuesday (Jan. 7), North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong said he supports education savings accounts (ESAs), describing them as a way…
North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley announced yesterday in a press conference that the Fargo police officers who shot and killed Peter Greco, 65, on November 13 were justified in…
Global mining is becoming more dangerous every day. According to an excellent report in The Wall Street Journal, global mining is facing a rash of “increasingly aggressive actions” toward Western…
With just two weeks left to go in his presidency, President Biden today issued an offshore drilling ban in 625 million acres of Atlantic and Pacific ocean. While the Gulf…
Capping the burden Last June, I argued that “North Dakota should break the link between property valuations and property tax burdens.” The essential point, I wrote, “is that the burden of…
After years of speculation and exploration, state geologists are urging companies to take another look at a sizable pool of untapped oil reserves discovered deep under a section of the…
The nationwide release of fourth- and eighth-grade student performance in reading and math has been set for Jan. 29, 2025, as announced by the National Assessment Governing Board of the…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) last week again predicted a decline in global coal use, expecting demand to plateau through 2027 and decline thereafter “as renewable energy sources play a…
Merry Christmas! Those in good favor this year didn’t include a number of union bosses who found themselves caught up in illegal shenanigans. Perhaps their New Year’s resolutions will include…
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives typically purport goals of combating bias and promoting inclusivity, but an experiment on the topic has found that its pedagogy produces hostile attribution bias.…
After just a few weeks of trying it out, Fargo’s plan to give homeless individuals with nowhere to go a break from the city’s recently passed ban on encampments in…
President Joe Biden’s unprecedented commutation of the sentences of nearly 1,500 federal prisoners has drawn an equally unprecedented rebuke from U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Hovland in Bismarck. Fifteen federal…