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Tech giants benefit from offshore accounts and Iowa tax breaks
By Sheena Dooley | Iowa Watchdog DES MOINES – Iowa has handed out nearly $30.3 million in tax breaks to attract two tech companies that rank among the top in the nation for their offshore holdings,...
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Report: ND ranks low in transparency for economic-development programs
BISMARCK, N.D. — State economic development programs got one of the worst ratings in the nation, according to a new report from Good Jobs First, which describes itself as “a national policy resource...
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Another Company Cuts Back Spending, Drilling In North Dakota Due To Oil Prices
More ugly news for a state that has an aggressive spending budget built on oil tax revenues, despite what Governor Jack Dalrymple has claimed. Two days ago Oasis Petroleum announced that they were...
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North Dakota’s Tax Revenues Did Not Actually Decline 46 Percent In The Third...
Yesterday evening I wrote about a report from the Rockefeller Institute of Government, picked up by Reuters, which described North Dakota’s tax revenues as declining 46.7 percent in the third quarter...
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NDSU President Used Girlfriend’s Email Account To Avoid Open Records Requests?
NDSU President Dean Bresciani is rather famously hostile to government transparency. “Either Dean Bresciani went to the Lois Lerner school of email management, or she went to the Dean Bresciani school,...
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Credit Where It’s Due: Dickinson Press Stands Up For The Public’s Right To Know
I often get accused of being too negative, of only writing about what’s wrong and not what’s right, so let me take a few moments of your time to applaud some people who are doing the right thing....
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Everything You Wanted To Know About North Dakota’s Tax Trigger
With oil prices in a rout, North Dakotans are obviously concerned about what impact that may have on the state’s budget. Governor Jack Dalrymple and lawmakers have increased spending aggressive in past...
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When Environmentalists Obstruct Solutions To Environmental Problems
Very often I get the feeling that environmental groups care far less about the environment than they do about advancing certain political agendas. Case in point, the battle over NORM (or naturally...
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John Dorso: Feds Should Stop Meddling In Local Law Enforcement Matters
That President Obama and his AG Eric Holder are adding to the racial tensions in this country is a point some may argue with. What isn’t being discussed is the insertion of the Federal government into...
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Shauna Theel: Wind Becoming A Valuable Part Of North Dakota’s Energy Boom
The renewable energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) has helped spur private investment in projects that help American workers make more of our energy right here at home, and North Dakota has seen the...
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Kevin Cramer: “Arbitrary Emission Standard” Puts American Power Supply At...
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com “I don’t think many people know how close we came,” Rep. Kevin Cramer said on Fox News Business yesterday, referring to last year’s “polar vortex” and...
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Time For Oil Boom Critics To Give Some Credit On Flaring
To hear some environmental activists and political partisans tell it North Dakota’s oil boom is an ecological disaster. “We’re destroying western North Dakota,” they chorus. Most recently they’ve been...
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North Dakota Has More Money To Spend But Lawmakers Pass Fewer Bills
The North Dakota Legislature meets for no more than eighty days – the maximum the state constitution allows – every odd-numbered year. The most recent session ended in the spring of 2013, and the next...
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Audio: Hoeven, Cramer Defend Votes For “CROmnibus” Spending Bill
Last week, and over the weekend, the House and Senate voted on an omnibus spending package that has conservatives outrage. Over the last couple of days my email inbox has been filling up with...
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North Dakota State Senator Beclowns Himself At Meeting Of Left’s Version Of ALEC
ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, has become something of a bête noire of the left. Alongside the Koch brothers, ALEC is apparently behind every nefarious deed in American politics...
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Minnesota’s Transgender Policy Harms Those It Is Intended To Help
Two weeks ago the board of the Minnesota State High School League voted to approve a new policy for “transgendered” students that would allow boys (who claim they are girls) to play on girls teams and...
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Maybe NDSU Could Keep Its Buildings In Repair If It Wasn’t Subsidizing...
Lately our university system, which a larger increase in appropriations than any other system of public universities in the country, has been bemoaning the condition of their buildings. As the payroll...
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Fargo Forum Doesn’t Disclose Conflict Of Interest In Editorial Praising New...
Politicos in western North Dakota are buzzing about the creation of the Valley Prosperity Partnership, seeing it as an organized effort to compete with western interests for state tax dollars. Indeed,...
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When Is It Reasonable For The Government To Break The Law?
Yesterday the Supreme Court handed down a ruling on a search and seizure case which didn’t get a lot of attention in the media but should have. Heien vs. North Carolina related to a traffic stop which...
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