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Money for Private Students Passes Senate 

Lawmakers Debate School Choice  BISMARCK – A bill to help offset tuition costs for students enrolling in private K-12 schools passed the North Dakota State Senate Tuesday.  House Bill 1532 would provide funds to qualified private schools for the purpose of offsetting the cost for parents, no more than 30% of the per student rate. […]
by Lydia Hoverson
April 11, 2023

Runoff Underway in North Dakota 

Hydrologic Outlook   National Weather Service Bismarck ND 11:13 AM CDT Tue Apr 11 2023  ...RUNOFF FROM SNOWMELT WAS INCREASING ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA...  Water from melting snow was establishing pathways to the rivers and streams across western and central North Dakota.  Some of the more prominent rivers and streams that were already receiving runoff include: the Little […]
by The Dakotan
April 11, 2023

Sports Betting Fails Senate 

Lawmakers Debate Regulating Versus Ban  lydia.hoverson@mydakotan.com   BISMARCK – A resolution that would have placed a measure on the ballot to allow sports betting failed in the North Dakota State Senate Monday.  House Bill 3002 would have placed a constitutional measure to allow the legislative assembly to authorize sports betting in the state on the November 2024 […]
by Lydia Hoverson
April 10, 2023

Term Limits Resolution Rejected 

Senate Rejects Two House Votes  BISMARCK – Two resolutions that passed overwhelmingly in the North Dakota State House of Representatives suffered crushing rejection in the Senate Monday.  House Concurrent Resolution 3019, which sought to repeal and replace a term limits initiated measure approved by state voters in the November 2022 general election, failed by a […]
by Kim Fundingsland
April 10, 2023

Senate Votes for Signature Fraud Penalty 

lydia.hoverson@mydakotan.com   BISMARCK – A bill to provide a fine of up to a $3,000 for fraudulent signatures passed the North Dakota State Senate Monday.  House Bill 1230 initially sought to issue a fine no less than $10,000 to a ballot measure’s committee chairman that willfully submits invalid signatures. Amendments were made by the House to […]
by Lydia Hoverson
April 10, 2023

High Temps, Fast Melt 

Minimal Runoff Occurring  MINOT – The snowpack in the Minot area has diminished considerably in the past few days and, with temperatures more June-like than April, the remaining snow should melt quickly.  “What we’ll have for temperatures today, and going forward, is putting a blowtorch on the snowpack,” said Allen Schlag, National Weather Service hydrologist […]
by Kim Fundingsland
April 10, 2023

Mister Chief Clerk 

Reading Bills for 18 Years  lydia.hoverson@mydakotan.com   BISMARCK – In North Dakota the titles of legislative bills are read to both the State House and State Senate.   Who reads the titles on the House side?  Buell Reich, Bismarck, chief clerk for the House side, said his job includes taking care of all the bills that […]
by Lydia Hoverson
April 9, 2023

The Silence of the Owl 

A Slice of Life  Sometimes a person needs to listen to the silence.  Our world is filled with sounds of all sorts, so much so that most of us don’t even realize it. There’s cheering and chatter, the closing of car doors, noise of traffic, televisions, ring tones of cell phones -- even our own […]
by Kim Fundingsland
April 9, 2023

Chippewa Woman Named North Dakota Poet Laureate 

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America  North Dakota lawmakers have appointed a Chippewa woman as the state's poet laureate, making her the first Native American to hold this position in the state and increasing attention to her expertise on the troubled history of Native American boarding schools.  Denise Lajimodiere, a citizen of the Turtle […]
by AP - The Dakotan
April 7, 2023

Lawmakers Change Child Labor Laws for Sports 

Fourteen-Year-Old Workers Past 9 P.M.  lydia.hoverson@mydakotan.com   BISMARCK – The North Dakota State Senate passed a bill Friday that would allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work past 9 p.m. at sports events in the summer months.  North Dakotans must be 14 years old to be employed, and currently youth 14 and 15 years old can work […]
by Lydia Hoverson
April 7, 2023
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