As first reported by The Bismarck Tribune, the North Dakota State Auditor’s Office has been petitioned to audit the Bismarck Public School district. According to the article, community members have…
The days of government entities meeting remotely online without an opportunity for constituents to be in the room are thankfully a thing of the past. Yet one vestige of the…
Stating that an education reimbursement bill “does not go far enough,” North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum recently vetoed the legislation (H.B. 1532), preventing the state’s students most in need of…
Coal may be a dirty word to climate zealots, but not in North Dakota. Not even in Washington, D.C., for those in the know, given the confirmation of significant reserves…
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…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about South Dakota’s relative economic success. What may have also struck you about that story is how badly the economy of North Dakota has…
While nearly all parents agree that reading proficiency is important (97 percent) and the importance of their child developing a love of reading (90 percent), when choosing between the two…
Ever since passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency has schemed to dramatically expand the agency’s grip on waterways, tributaries, wetlands and adjacent lands nationwide.…
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has before him legislation that would finally provide additional educational opportunities to children in the state. Based on his State of the State address in…
Opponents to educational freedom are drumming up every possible reason to convince North Dakota leaders and Gov. Doug Burgum that an educational reimbursement program should be blocked. This morning, Joel…
According to the San Fransisco Chronicle, three major utility companies in California have proposed to charge their customers based on their household income. The measure, which was drafted in response…
After much debate and a few changes, North Dakota’s first school choice bill has passed both the House and Senate and gone on to Gov. Doug Burgum’s desk for signing.…
The term limits ballot measure passed by nearly two-thirds of North Dakota voters last year had hardly taken effect before legislators started messing with it. The constitutional amendment limits lawmakers…
Parental concern over what books are made available to their children in school libraries is largely being framed by media and others on the left as “book banning,” “censorship,” or…
You still see a few folks wearing medical masks here and there, but they stand out like sore thumbs. Most people ditched the pandemic relics long ago. But there’s a…
Within hours of Gov. Doug Burgum’s veto of legislation standardizing the use of pronouns in schools and government, the North Dakota Senate overwhelmingly voted to override the governor’s action. The…