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REAL MONEY Nine Steps to Dealing With Medical Debt
A broken bone, mental health therapy, a long-term illness, a car accident, a premature baby. All of these situationsand so many more unexpected onescan land a family in medical debt. And you cant comp...
Posted on 4/16/13 at 9:27 AM
IN THE BLACK Why Its Important to Pay more than Minimum Payments
Here is a video showing how long it takes and how much interest you pay when only paying the minimum payments on your credit card debt. In the example in the video, by only paying the minimum payme...
Posted on 3/21/13 at 7:29 PM
STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Legislative notebook: Obama coming to discuss gun violence
By Don Davis Next week is turning into gun week in Minnesota. President Barack Obama kicks the week off with a Monday Minneapolis visit to discuss gun violence and state legislators plan to consider...
Posted on 1/30/13 at 8:04 PM
MIDDLE AGED PLAGUE I'm a Believer -- So Are You
We disagree with one another a lot these days, but I think I've found three sentences we can all say, "Yes, that's true," to: 1) We are all born. 2) We all die. 3) In between, we operate each of ...
Posted on 12/19/12 at 3:11 PM
STAFF BLOG THE N.D. CAPITOL AND BEYOND N.D. lawmakers pitch federal debt proposal
BISMARCK North Dakota lawmakers who want to do their part to help control the nations debt had their first hearing Wednesday. A group of lawmakers wants the Legislature to support an amendment to th...
Posted on 1/19/11 at 6:11 PM
Minnesota House backs higher income, booze taxes 
The Minnesota House on Wednesday approved a bill that would raise state taxes by $2.6 billion in part by enacting the state's first alcohol tax increase in about 25 years.
By BRIAN BAKST , April 24, 2013
Minnesotans see impact from federal sequestration cuts
The federal government’s failure to agree on how to fix its debt problem could cost Minnesota more than $90 million this year.
Early numbers show schools and health programs could be among those most affected, a legislative committee learned Friday.
By Don Davis , April 05, 2013
Beginning veterinarians struggle with loan debt in N.D.
Angie Bettenhausen put her stethoscope to the chest of a 13-year-old asthmatic Pomeranian named Ariyana. The dog had been coughing and wheezing. Bettenhausen, who graduated from Iowa State in 2009, has been a small animal veterinarian at Pinehurst Veterinary Hospital in Bismarck for about three years. She's paying off more than $100,000 in student loans.
By Jessica Holdman , March 25, 2013
UND kicks off financial wellness program for students
UND sophomore Daryl Thom hopes the new Financial Wellness Services program on campus will help her stay debt-free. Although she’d carefully planned for her education and carries no student debt, she still needs help to stay that way, she said.
By Jennifer Johnson , February 02, 2013
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OUR OPINION: College's value still outweighs cost
It's absolutely true, as Herald staff writer Jennifer Johnson reported, that where UND and the North Dakota University System are concerned, "wages for many graduates have not kept up with inflation, even as student-debt loads reach record levels." Given that reality, why has enrollment stayed strong?
By Tom Dennis , January 28, 2013
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Minnesota AG: debt buyers should make case in court
Minnesota's attorney general is seeking legislation that would force companies that buy bad debts to prove in court that they're using reliable information when they target debtors for repayment.
By Associated Press , January 14, 2013
Oil money helps ND tribe become debt-free
Oil and gas development on the Fort Berthold Reservation in northwestern North Dakota is boosting the coffers of the Three Affiliated Tribes.
By Associated Press , January 07, 2013
Budget on the mind as lawmakers headed St. Paul
Minnesota’s 201 legislators are headed to the state Capitol for the noon Tuesday beginning of their 2013 session, with by far their most important task writing a two-year budget.
By Don Davis , January 06, 2013
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PAUL KRUGMAN: Debt-limit canyon marks GOP’s road to ruin
The reality is that our two major political parties are engaged in a fierce struggle over the future shape of American society. Democrats want to preserve Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and add to them a universal guarantee of essential health care. Republicans want to roll all of that back, making room for drastically lower taxes on the wealthy. Yes, it’s essentially a class war.
By Paul Krugman , January 06, 2013
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Obama urges action on debt ceiling
President Barack Obama is hailing a last-minute deal that avoids the so-called fiscal cliff but says it's just one step in a broader effort to boost the economy and shrink federal deficits.
By Matthew Daly , January 05, 2013
Minnesota settles lawsuit with debt collection company
A company that buys bad debts has agreed to change its collection practices to settle a lawsuit filed by the state of Minnesota that accused it of filing unreliable court papers and carelessly targeting people for debts they didn't owe.
By Steve Karnowski , December 12, 2012
OUR OPINION: Sorry, Grover; CEOs say, ‘Cut a deal’
Republicans Rick Berg, John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer should follow the lead of the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council by supporting a grand bargain, thereby putting America first, North Dakota second — and Grover Norquist, if he’s on the list at all, a very distant third.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , November 20, 2012
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