Throughout the summer, North Dakotans are celebrating Pride in communities like Minot across the state. The festivals are the shared celebration of resilience and LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit joy. Everything is washed in cheery rainbow flags and fun! That festive atmosphere is customary for Pride ...
With a bizarre collection of proposals to upset the North Dakota election system, a band of outliers are now carrying petitions across the state to put a catch-all constitutional amendment on the November ballot. The amendment has neither coherence nor common sense for the professionals who have administered election laws in North Dakota with the utmost of integrity and accuracy. Professionals agree Secretary State Michael Howe, Wells County Auditor Dan Stutlien and State Auditor Josh Gallion have unanimously agreed that the North Dakota election system is secure. In a study I ...
Common good are those things that emphasizes community as compared to individual good, which emphasizes self. Every level of civic society – national, state and local – needs common good to negotiate and provide the services to everyone in its jurisdiction. The national government must provide security, goods and services; state government supplements the national good with another level of security, goods and services; the county government adds administration while also providing local assistance to fill gaps. The level of common good is measured by the quality of protection, ...
“I just heard at Glover’s Bar that them guys in Bismarck are finally thinking of using that $10,000,000,000 pile of fracking and gas money molding away in the state treasury,” Madeleine Morgan said with authority as she entered the ZCBJ hall for a special meeting of the Homeland Security Committee. “Well, it’s about time they started sharing this money with those of us who are still living today – especially the kids, of which we no longer have any,” said Orville Jordan, the retired depot agent who retired with the Soo Line Railroad. “I hope they are thinking about ...
A seismic shift is taking place in the North Dakota party convention nominating system with the fragmentation of power and resources and candidates bypassing the structured nominating system and going directly to the polls. While North Dakota history is full of erratic appeals to primary elections, the present fracture was led by Senator Kevin Cramer and Governor Doug Burgum, both of whom took their cases to the public after rejection by conventions. The precedent has been established. By electing Cramer to lesser offices, the Republican Party gave him the visibility to successfully ...
At the outset, I am taking personal offense at the injection of age in the 2024 elections by a couple of young whippersnappers who correlate age with competence without the facts. Word in the pipeline is that my intent to run for something in the 2024 political musical chairs has been leaked. Just about everybody is running for something and I hate to be left on the sidelines. The age issue has been introduced in a number of states, not to bar old people from running for president so much as impeaching two elderly frontrunners in the presidential race. National effort This smells ...
