When The Minot Daily News published a story earlier this week about folks at a visitor center in Pennsylvania hoping someone from North Dakota would stop by to be the first one from this state to sign the center’s register, it didn’t take long for the word to get out. Chuck Hubbell, an ...
The Pied Piper is back, hoping that taxpayers will sign petitions to place a repeal of the property tax on the ballot in 2024. Repealing the property tax was soundly defeated 10 years ago, attracting only 25% of the vote. Since nothing has changed since 2012, local governments are being ...
Fitch Ratings just downgraded the U.S. government’s credit rating due in part to Congress’s erosion in governance. Indeed, year after year, we see the same political theater unfold: last-minute deals, deficits and, all too often, the passage of gigantic omnibus spending bills without proper ...
One of the advantages to a change in majority in one or both houses of Congress is that the public gets to see what the other party won’t address or has been covering up. Such was the case on Monday when Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) held a forum in Escondido, California, with parents of the 13 ...
ay by day, your right to speak freely is being robbed by the Biden administration. This time, Team Biden wants to gag defendants from criticizing government prosecutors. That’s how courts are run in countries like Pakistan, Russia and North Korea. Anyone can fall into the government’s ...
One of my favorite movies is “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The story questions what local banker George Bailey’s hometown would have been like had he never lived. Well, let’s imagine what America would be like if we had adopted an age—limit constitutional amendment in 2010. After ...