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From Screens to Scenery: How “The Scenic Gamer” Is Playing His Way Across America

By The Dakotan on July 17, 2025
When Noah Enright, 27, better known online as The Scenic Gamer, quit his middle school teaching job and set out from Los Angeles on May 1, he had a plan, a Jeep packed with eight gaming consoles, a TV, two portable power stations, and a dream: play video games in all 50 states. Now, two […]
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North Dakota legislative district map to remain in place for now, Supreme Court decides

By The Dakotan on July 17, 2025
By: Mary Steurer (ND Monitor) The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday put a temporary freeze on North Dakota’s legislative district map, keeping it in place pending next steps in a tribal voting rights case against the state. The move came just a day before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals was expected to issue a […]
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Gov. Armstrong pushes flexibility, transportation permitting reform during Senate committee hearing

By The Dakotan on July 17, 2025
By: Michael Achterling (ND Monitor) North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong highlighted the need for permitting reform and flexibility for states to administer federal transportation funding during a U.S. Senate committee hearing in Washington, D.C. Armstrong provided a state’s perspective Wednesday on the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act, which provides federal funding to states to maintain highways, roads and […]
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North Dakota Ethics Commissioners to evaluate ‘strained’ relationship with Attorney General’s Office

By The Dakotan on July 17, 2025
By: Mary Steurer (ND Monitor) The North Dakota Ethics Commission is looking into whether strongly worded communications from the state Attorney General’s Office have negatively impacted commission staff. The decision follows a July 3 letter addressed to the commission from Attorney General Drew Wrigley that harshly criticized the commission’s recent investigation report on ethics violations by Rep. […]
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North Dakota Corrections working on 4 ‘mini prisons’ to relieve crowding

By The Dakotan on July 14, 2025
By: Mary Steurer (ND Monitor) The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is working to add as many as 300 additional beds to its overburdened prison system over the next year. “We’re literally trying to lift up about, as far as I’m concerned, four mini prisons across the state all in the same year,” […]
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Husband of North Dakota Lt. Gov. Strinden dies of cancer

By The Dakotan on July 14, 2025
By: ND Monitor Staff Dr. Tom Strinden, the husband of North Dakota Lt. Gov. Michelle Strinden, died Sunday.  A new release from the office of Gov. Kelly Armstrong said Strinden died after a 17-month battle with brain cancer.  Michelle Strinden was a Fargo lawmaker before being tapped as Armstrong’s running mate last year.  “Tom was […]
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The North Dakota Industrial Commission Uncovered: What It Is, What It Does, and Why It Matters-Collom's Column

By K.L. Collom on July 12, 2025
North Dakota is the only state in America where three elected officials essentially jointly own a bank and a flour mill, regulate oil drilling, approve billion-dollar bond issues, and hand out grants for everything from housing and drone research, to hydrogen development. This board, the North Dakota Industrial Commission (NDIC), was created more than a […]
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North Dakota tribes want US Supreme Court to hear voting rights case

By The Dakotan on July 11, 2025
By: Mary Steurer (ND Monitor) Two North Dakota Native tribes and a group of tribal citizens plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a court decision that found they don’t have standing to sue the state of North Dakota for alleged voter discrimination. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in the ruling concluded […]
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ND after-school providers, school districts in ‘limbo’ due to frozen federal grants

By The Dakotan on July 11, 2025
By: Michael Achterling (ND Monitor) Frozen federal grants are putting North Dakota after-school programs in limbo, pausing teacher training and leaving schools scrambling, education officials said this week. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget withheld $6.8 billion in federal education grants for the upcoming school year for further review. The total withheld for North […]
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Legislators should discuss possible veto lawsuit in open meeting-Commentary

By The Dakotan on July 11, 2025
By: Amy Dalrymple (ND Monitor) North Dakota legislative leaders are scheduled to go into a closed-door session on Friday to discuss a possible lawsuit over a veto error. It’s a conversation that should happen out in the open because lawmakers should be transparent about their thinking and decision-making. The interim Legislative Management Committee is weighing […]
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