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Response to Hamida Dakane and Rob Port from the organizers of Fargo soccer tournament

By The Dakotan on August 16, 2024

Dear Fellow Citizens, We are responding to the InForum editorial about the Sep 7th soccer tournament we are organizing, sponsored by District 10 State House candidate Jared Hendrix. We would like to address comments made by Rep. Hamida Dakane about new Americans, Hendrix, and our tournament. To be clear, Hendrix did not come up with […]

Public – and some lawmakers – shut out from discussion of school choice legislation

By The Dakotan on August 16, 2024

BY: AMY DALRYMPLE (North Dakota Monitor) An important discussion about the future of North Dakota’s K-12 education system appears to be happening in private. The discussion is so private, in fact, that even some Education Committee lawmakers seem to be in the dark. The Legislature’s interim Education Committee was directed through legislation approved in 2023 to study […]

Collaboration, government efficiency highlight US Senate committee hearing at Grand Farm

By The Dakotan on August 16, 2024

BY: JEFF BEACH (North Dakota Monitor) CASSELTON — While hosting a congressional field hearing, Greg Tehven, one of the founders of North Dakota’s Grand Farm, called on the federal government to honor its financial commitments in a timely manner. “It was very uncomfortable sitting in this room and telling my board of directors that we […]

Minot lawmaker remembered as ‘even keeled,’ great friend across 18 years of public service

By The Dakotan on August 16, 2024

BY: MICHAEL ACHTERLING (North Dakota Monitor) It may have been unconventional to roll a beat-up pickup onto a political convention floor, but that was in character for Rep. Randy Schobinger. In 1996, that was a resounding success for the Minot lawmaker, according to his friend and former campaign staffer. Schobinger, 54, who died Tuesday, started […]

Mike Blessum, Minot City Council chats Minot Budget, Federal Funding, and Property Taxes

By Jonathan Starr on August 15, 2024

Mike Blessum joins Minot Matters to talk the 2025 prelim city budget. He talks about the presentation by the City, Federal Funding, Employee Pay Packages, and the goal of decreasing property taxes. Jonathan Starr

Commission taps candidate with industry background for North Dakota’s next top oil regulator

By The Dakotan on August 14, 2024

BY: MARY STEURER (North Dakota Monitor) The North Dakota Industrial Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to select a candidate who made his career in the oil and gas industry to be the state’s top oil regulator. Nathan Anderson is slated to take over as Department of Mineral Resources director on Sept. 16, an announcement from the […]

Medical marijuana businesses are primary backers of North Dakota recreational pot ballot measure

By The Dakotan on August 14, 2024

By: BY: MICHAEL ACHTERLING (North Dakota Monitor) North Dakota medical marijuana businesses are high on the list of donors backing the state’s legalized pot ballot measure, according to campaign finance reports. More than $287,000 has been donated to the ballot initiative’s sponsoring committee by two organizations associated with North Dakota medical marijuana dispensaries, with only […]

Ballot questions tackle high property taxes that come with rising home values

By The Dakotan on August 14, 2024

BY: ELAINE S. POVICH (North Dakota Monitor) No state illustrates this year’s flurry of ballot measures to cut property taxes better than Colorado. There, the results of two likely voter questions could reduce funding for schools, roads, emergency responders and other local government services. Colorado’s ballot measures are just two of nearly a dozen upcoming […]

At least 12 die in motorcycle accidents before, during and after 2024 Sturgis rally

By The Dakotan on August 14, 2024

BY: SETH TUPPER AND JOHN HULT (North Dakota Monitor) Three people died in motorcycle accidents during the recently concluded Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, according to the official tally of the state Department of Public Safety, but the actual number of motorcycle-involved traffic deaths in the state from the days before, during and after the event is […]

Harris Took The Reins On Solving A Key Region’s Migrant Crisis — Nearly 1.8 Million People Crossed Into US Anyway

By The Dakotan on August 14, 2024

By JASON HOPKINS (Daily Caller News Foundation) Over a million migrants hailing from Central America have crossed illegally into the U.S. since Vice President Kamala Harris was tapped to address the illegal immigration crisis stemming from that region. Since the launch of her presidential campaign, Harris and her allies have vehemently pushed back on the […]

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