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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA NEWS Site recommendation and building committees named for new UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences
University of North Dakota President Robert O. Kelleygot the ball rolling this week on the planning process for UND's new School of Medicine and Health Sciences building. Kelley named the members o...
Posted on 6/14/13 at 2:20 PM
STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Child care providers go to court
By Don Davis Minnesota child care providers who want nothing to do with a union are taking a new law to federal court. The law Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton signed Friday allows home-based child care p...
Posted on 5/29/13 at 5:10 PM
THE WEST WING Weekly Memo 5-10-13
Each Weekly Memo to the City Council and the agenda packet is also provided on theCity Councilweb page. WEEKLY UPDATE: Legislative Update There was relatively little final action on key legislation...
Posted on 5/10/13 at 12:53 PM
THE NEW FORTY Common sense delivered by Dr. Thomas Jacobsen...
Today I want to utilize my blog to both applaud a good citizen and to further spread his thoughtful words. I know my blog readers extend far beyond my local area and beyond North Dakota. I also recogn...
Posted on 5/5/13 at 7:16 PM
STAFF BLOG COMPASS POINTS WITH BRAD DOKKEN Proposed new N.D. Outdoor Heritage Fund initiated measure to get hearing Thursday
The North Dakota Wildlife Federation and other conservation advocates in the state are asking people who care about the states natural resources and the wild places that remain to get behind a new pro...
Posted on 3/1/13 at 4:47 PM
PHIL KRINKIE: Relief or no relief, property taxes stay high
This year after the legislative session ended in May with more than $2 billion in tax increases, Gov. Mark Dayton and the DFL leaders proclaimed they had passed legislation that would reduce property taxes.
By Phil Krinkie , June 15, 2013
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2013-14 Legislative Interim Committee’s set, concerns raised by Democrats 
No Democratic state lawmaker will serve as a chair or vice-chair of an interim committee during the 2013-14 interim session.
By TJ Jerke , June 11, 2013
Lawmaker blocked provision telling felons they can't vote
The defeat last fall of a proposed constitutional amendment that would have required voters to show photo identification at the polls did not end efforts in the Minnesota Legislature to keep felons from voting.
By Tim Pugmire , June 10, 2013
Senate approves Farm Bill
As expected, the U.S. Senate on Monday approved 66-27 a new federal Farm Bill. That clears the way for the U.S. House to take up its own version of the legislation, possibly as early as this month.
By Jonathan Knutson , June 10, 2013
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New NRA-backed Kansas law seeks to limit lobbying
Fresh off a series of legislative victories across the country, the National Rifle Association has launched a new effort starting in gun-friendly Kansas seeking to clamp down on the use of government money to lobby on gun-control issues.
By John Hanna , June 05, 2013
Minnesota Legislature leaves sex offender program untouched
The Legislature passed up a chance this session to rework Minnesota's sex offender program, raising the possibility that a federal judge will rule it unconstitutional.
By Associated Press , June 03, 2013
Schumer: Immigration bill to pass Senate by July 4
A lawmaker who helped negotiate a bipartisan bill to overhaul immigration predicted on Sunday that comprehensive legislation would overwhelmingly pass the Senate by July 4 while House Republicans cautioned that they would write their own version, one piece at a time.
By Philip Elliott , June 02, 2013
Court says Egypt legislature illegally elected
Egypt's highest court ruled on Sunday that the nation's interim parliament was illegally elected, though it stopped short of dissolving the chamber immediately, in a decision likely to fuel the tensions between the ruling Islamists and the judiciary.
By Hamza Hendawi , June 02, 2013
Kelly Armstrong, N.D. letter: Democratic legislators deserve a response
Kelly Armstrong, a North Dakota state senator writes in about legislature
By Kelly Armstrong , June 01, 2013
JOHN GODFREAD: Proud of lowering tax rates
BISMARCK — In a recent letter to the editor (Responsible government means supporting local business, Page A4, May 30), Sen. John Grabinger, D-Jamestown, seems to be disappointed about how the legislature treated small business in its most recent session.
By John Godfread , June 01, 2013
LLOYD OMDAHL: Holmberg will alter style of policymaking
The election of Sen. Ray Holmberg, R-Grand Forks, a 38-year veteran of the Legislature and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, as chairman of the interim Legislative Management Committee may signal a shift to a more moderate and a more collegial Legislature.
By Lloyd Omdahl , May 26, 2013
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Tyler Axness, Fargo, ND, letter: Legislative session failed to live up to promise
The recent ND legislative session should have been the moment our state pieced together a 30-year plan to lead the nation in innovative means across all sectors both public and private. Instead, it was clear under current leadership there is no plan to implement a visionary future for North Dakota.
By Tyler Axness , May 26, 2013
A quieter minnesota legislative session for hunting and fishing
Outdoors issues generally took a backseat during the 2013 session of the Minnesota Legislature after lawmakers last year approved an increase in hunting and fishing license fees to replenish a Game and Fish Fund that was headed for the red.
By Brad Dokken , May 26, 2013
John Johnson, East Grand Forks, Minn., letter: Legislature gets an ‘F’ on anti-bullying bill
One blatant failure at the conclusion of the Minnesota legislative session is the fact that a comprehensive anti-bullying bill did not pass; and so begins another year of no protection for those students being verbally, physically and electronically bullied.
By John Johnson , May 26, 2013
BRAD DOKKEN: Sportsmen win with Dayton vetoes
Ron Schara, Bud Grant and other Minnesota conservation advocates deserve a pat on the back for their efforts in persuading Gov. Mark Dayton to veto two line-items in the Legacy Fund bill passed by the Minnesota Legislature.
By Brad Dokken , May 26, 2013
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