RALPH KINGSBURY
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RALPH KINGSBURY: N.D. energy growth shows free market at work 
Keynesian economics made America the greatest power the world had ever seen. That was the conventional wisdom about 50 years ago. At that time, most students — this writer included — tended to accept the prevailing theories of every field of study. Keynes was right about anything dealing with economics; Freud was right about psychology, and so on.
May 18, 2012
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RALPH KINGSBURY: Keep an eye on housing starts in Grand Forks
Another month, another set of upbeat numbers. We could call the building permit report negative. The total dollar amount is only about 30 percent of the first four months of last year, and there is not one category that is better than last year.
May 04, 2012
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RALPH KINGSBURY: Needles of worry in haystack of good news
This job should be easy. With an economy like the one we have in Grand Forks, the Red River Valley (including Minnesota) and all of North Dakota, it is as good as it gets. Of course, that’s the problem. I mean, what is there to say month after month? Power up Word and write, “Well, the economy continues to grow. There are no signs of trouble” again this month. Then what? I am supposed to write a column. How do I fill the rest of this space?
April 06, 2012
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RALPH KINGSBURY: With Measure 2, N.D. faces landmark fork in the road
As someone who always has believed property taxes were the least fair of all taxes, and as someone who agrees with most of the stated problems and wrongs of property taxes, I am sorry to say I am going to vote no on Measure 2. Why will I vote this way? One reason: While those writing the initiated measure did eliminate the problems concerning property taxation, they replaced them with problems of state appropriations.
February 17, 2012
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RALPH KINGSBURY: It's not Mayberry anymore. But what to do?
Now and then as my columns have appeared, readers have had comments and questions. Today’s column is an attempt to reply to some of the comments and to answer some of the questions.
January 20, 2012
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RALPH KINGSBURY: It’s a new N.D., for the better — and for better yet
He comes from a northwest North Dakota town. He is pretty smart and well-educated, with a background including UND and a professional degree from a national, highly ranked private university.
By Ralph Kingsbury , January 06, 2012
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RALPH KINGSBURY: Crystal is a business, not a welfare agency
About 20 years ago, co-ops were all the rage in the upper Midwest. Led by American Crystal Sugar and Dakota Growers in Carrington, N.D., farmer-owned and value-added businesses were going to make us all rich. As for American Crystal, today it is the most successful agricultural investment in the region. But there are problems, some of which were created by poor management decisions.
December 16, 2011
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RALPH KINGSBURY: Time to look Grand Forks’ gift-horse in the mouth
We might as well start at the beginning. The unbelievable, unexplained, unwritten-about beginning. What is doing this? Why in Grand Forks, so far from the oil patch? What is making this happen?
December 03, 2011
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RALPH KINGSBURY: Controlling the costs of college
The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education is going to study the cost of fees assessed against students for enrolling in particular programs at North Dakota colleges and universities.
By Ralph Kingsbury , November 19, 2011
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RALPH KINGSBURY: Grand Fork’s motel-tax collections go up, up, up
Today, I fear this sense of community has disappeared from much of America. But one of the few places where it has continued is in rural areas, and that means North Dakota. Now, I fear the North Dakota Legislature is about to take on giant step toward destroying that community. It will save taxpayers a few pennies, maybe the cost of a Big Mac a year or so.
November 05, 2011
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RALPH KINGSBURY: North Dakota won’t be immune from globalization’s woes
Globalization. That’s the way they describe it now. When the trend first started, it was called free trade. We were told — and most of us believed — that if only we would let production take place in countries with the greatest “comparative advantage,” we would all be better off. It’s not my intention to discuss the American Crystal situation again, except to say that as it relates to free trade and globalization, the federal sugar program’s survival even in the near future is questionable.
October 15, 2011
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RALPH KINGSBURY: Ho-hum: Another month, another record performance
Last month, I wrote how this job could become boring. All that this town, this area, this state were doing was growing. Some places grew fast, some grew slow, but every place was growing to some degree. How could I find any excitement in this?
September 30, 2011
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RALPH KINGSBURY: Forecast calls for more growth (yawn)
This job could get boring. Through thick and thin and good and poor national economies, North Dakota’s economy has ranged from good to excellent.
September 02, 2011
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Ralph Woehle, Lengby, Minn., letter: Crystal farmers should consider workers’ plight
Herald columnist Ralph Kingsbury’s column concluded that American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative, had no choice but of offer a union contract that threatened job loss (“Nothing — not even sugar — stays the same forever,” Page B1, Aug. 20).
By Ralph Woehle , August 25, 2011
RALPH KINGSBURY: Farm news sends shiver down economic spine
I may be the one with an economics background, but Herald publisher Mike Jacobs is the wordsmith. Jacobs has written several times that he thought majoring in philosophy gave him a broader understanding of life and made him a better writer than if he had majored in journalism.
By Ralph Kingsbury , July 15, 2011
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