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Former Sen. Ray Holmberg, left, served 45 years in the North Dakota Legislature. Wayne Stenehjem, right, served as attorney general for 22 years. The two Republicans were close associates who began their political careers at the same time. (Photos provided by Sherburne (Minn.) County Jail, Office of Attorney General)

Call logs show Holmberg, former AG communicated amid federal sex crime investigation

By: Amy Dalrymple (ND Monitor) Newly released call logs show the late Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem communicated with former Sen. Ray Holmberg as the lawmaker was being investigated for sex crimes, including calls the day Stenehjem sat for a law enforcement interview. Yet Stenehjem only told law enforcement about one phone conversation with Holmberg, according […]
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April 28, 2025
Rep. Ben Koppelman, R-West Fargo, speaks about term limits during a committee hearing on Jan. 23, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor

House kills term limit start date bill after conference committee stalemate

By: Michael Achterling (ND Monitor) A bill clarifying the state date for North Dakota’s term limits law failed in the House on a 61-28 vote Monday. The bill was debated over multiple conference committee meetings in recent days. The Senate version contained a Jan. 1, 2023 start date for the term limits, while the House […]
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April 28, 2025

Trump is shifting cybersecurity to the states, but many aren’t prepared

By: Madyson Fitzgerald For the first half of his career in law enforcement, working as a police officer in South Florida, Chase Fopiano did not think cyberattacks on police agencies were a serious threat. Many of his law enforcement colleagues were under the same impression — that since they were the most likely to investigate […]
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April 28, 2025

North Dakota farmers feeling effects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s health kick

By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to “Make America Healthy Again” is making some North Dakota farmers queasy.  Kennedy’s MAHA movement shuns highly processed foods and dyes. But it also includes an attack on oils made from seeds such as sunflowers and canola, with North Dakota […]
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April 28, 2025
North Dakota Senate Majority Leader David Hogue, R-Minot, speaks in front of House Majority Leader Mike Lefor, R-Dickinson, on the House floor during a meeting of the Legislative Management Committee on Nov. 14, 2024. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

Lawmakers selected for committee that makes study decisions for interim 

By: Michael Achterling (ND Monitor) With the 69th North Dakota Legislative Assembly finishing its business in the coming days, lawmakers elected members to the Legislative Management Committee to prepare for the next session and deal with any unfinished business. The Legislative Management Committee has three primary roles during the interim before the 70th Legislative Assembly […]
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April 28, 2025
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Daily Brief: Holmberg Report Out, Minot Voter Turnout, Armstrong Signs Bell to Bell Bill, Gas Taxes, and Bill Langer

Growing City, Shrinking Votes: Minot's Mayoral Turnout Paradox See the full breakdown here Despite population growth, fewer Minot residents are voting for mayor today than in the 1970s and '80s, when the city was 15,000 people smaller. A new analysis comparing elections from 1970–1986 to modern contests shows turnout has dropped by more than half, […]
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April 28, 2025
Governor Langer’s pose in this portrait shows his characteristic energy.

North Dakota's Maverick, William "Wild Bill" Langer-Collom's Column.

William “Wild Bill” Langer remains one of the most controversial, charismatic, and enduring figures in North Dakota’s political history. A lawyer, reformer, outlaw governor, and longtime U.S. senator, Langer’s life embodied the contradictions of prairie populism: deeply rooted in the struggles of ordinary people, yet unafraid to bend, or break, the rules of the system […]
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April 26, 2025
A Bismarck gas station displays the current per gallon rate for fuel on March 24, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

North Dakota House, Senate at odds over proposed gas tax increase

By: Michael Achterling and Amy Dalrymple (ND Monitor) North Dakota lawmakers continue to debate the first increase to the gas tax in 20 years, with the House on Friday narrowly advancing a 5-cent tax increase while the Senate unanimously defeated a separate bill with a 3-cent increase. Supporters in the House said the increase is […]
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April 26, 2025
North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong gives a student the pen he used to sign a bill establishing cellphone-free public schools during a signing ceremony April 15, 2025, at Bismarck’s Centennial Elementary. He was joined by first lady Kjersti Armstrong. (Photo provided by governor’s office)

Gov. Armstrong signs bill banning public school student cellphone use in North Dakota

By: Michael Achterling (ND Monitor) North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong went to a Bismarck elementary school Friday to sign a bill banning public school student cellphone use from “bell to bell.” “This is a game changer for our public schools, giving students the freedom to focus on learning and to interact with teachers and friends […]
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April 25, 2025
Sen. Keith Boehm, R-Mandan, testifies in favor of a bill to address explicit content from school and public libraries during a committee hearing on Feb. 10, 2025. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

Votes fail to overturn vetoes of library bill, private school funding

By: Jeff Beach (ND Monitor) Two vetoes by Gov. Kelly Armstrong stood up to challenges in the North Dakota Legislature on Friday.  Armstrong vetoed Senate Bill 2307, a library obscenity bill, and House Bill 1540, that would have used taxpayer dollars to support private school tuition vouchers.  A two-thirds majority was needed to override the vetoes.   The library […]
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April 25, 2025
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