OIL BOOM
4 MY FUTURE: CAREER AND CHARACTER EDUCATION Location, Location, Location...
As with many other categories, your salary and career options can vary dramatically depending on where you are. That is true on a national level as well as a state level; especially if that state is N...
Posted on 4/22/13 at 9:49 AM
THE NEW FORTY Senate Bill 2326...don't drink the Kool-Aid!
It is a good thing I don't live in Bismarck. Heaven only knows how much time I would spend at the Capitol frothing at the mouth while trying to convey to legislators the idiocy of some of the things t...
Posted on 2/17/13 at 12:22 PM
STAFF BLOG THE AREA VOICES COMMUNITY So you want to write about the oil boom....
Well, have I got a deal for you... Sorry, couldn't resist that cheesy line. But it's the truth. I've spoken to a few people with very strong opinions about life in the oil boom of western North Dako...
Posted on 6/19/12 at 3:25 PM
STAFF BLOG THE N.D. CAPITOL AND BEYOND Dalrymple presents budget address
BISMARCKProperty tax relief, more money for infrastructure needs in oil country and improvements to college campuses are among the funding priorities that Gov. Jack Dalrymple outlined in his first bud...
Posted on 12/8/10 at 1:22 PM
FACES OF THE BOOM: Leaders of landowner group active at Capitol 
Farmers Myron Hanson and Troy Coons miss the rural North Dakota they used to know. That’s why they’re volunteering their time at the state Capitol this legislative session to advocate for farmers and ranchers who are being significantly affected by the oil boom.
By Amy Dalrymple , March 31, 2013
N.D. Game and Fish uses helicopter to move bighorn sheep away from Oil Patch highway
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department recently deployed a helicopter crew to capture and relocate 12 bighorn sheep in an effort to reduce road-kill incidents along a heavily traveled stretch of U.S. Highway 85 north of the Little Missouri River near the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
By Brad Dokken , March 11, 2013
NDSU releases forecast for student enrollment in Oil Patch schools
Predicting the future is no easy task, especially for cities in the booming western North Dakota Oil Patch. Predicting the future number of students at any given school in that same area may seem a daunting chore.
By Katherine Grandstrand , March 09, 2013
FACES OF THE BOOM: Longtime Williston resident tries to welcome newcomers
The experiences of oil boom workers moving to Williston are familiar to Terri Sorenson. She lived it in 1980. Now the longtime Williston resident is trying to make newcomers to town feel welcome by preparing hot meals for them.
By Amy Dalrymple , February 25, 2013
Fargo Jet Center announces Williston expansion
The Fargo Jet Center announced Wednesday it plans to expand to Williston to help meet the booming demand for oilfield-related private air service.
By Amy Dalrymple , January 23, 2013
New study shows renewable energy provides economic benefits
Renewable energy advocates are applauding state budget proposals to provide a projected $5.48 million to support renewable energy and energy conservation initiatives.
By Patrick Springer , January 14, 2013
Perry Ostmo, Sharon, N.D., letter: As GOP knows, tax cuts mostly help the rich
Who is representing whom? Democrats represent the people. Republicans represent themselves.
By Perry Ostmo , October 17, 2012
Marc Landblom, Dickinson, N.D., column: Protect N.D.’s wild areas while we still can
Most of North Dakota has been altered by human hands, and those areas that have not been altered soon will be. We must keep some areas untouched so our children know what the landscape was like before we changed it.
By Marc Landblom , October 07, 2012
LLOYD OMDAHL: ‘N.D.’, ‘opportunity’ at last can be linked
At last, it’s true. North Dakota is the land of opportunity. Let’s not miss it now that it is here.
By Lloyd Omdahl , October 01, 2012
LLOYD OMDAHL: N.D. must budget oil money with foresight
North Dakota doesn’t have to be the vacant spot on the map that native son Eric Sevareid once declared.
But to be a bigger and better state in the future, we need bigger and better thinking about long-term goals.
By Lloyd Omdahl , September 17, 2012
Kari Conrad, Minot, letter: Western N.D.’s needs deserve top priority
We ask our leaders to be more practical and to spend oil taxes to maintain western North Dakota’s quality of life.
By Kari Conrad , August 26, 2012
MATTERS AT HAND: Western N.D. may be catching up with oil boom
It may be that western North Dakota is catching up with the oil boom.
For me, the first indication was a pile of gravel.
By Mike Jacobs , August 26, 2012
OUR OPINION: 'Energy Corridor' could be America’s new Sunbelt
As the “center of gravity of the global energy picture” shifts to North America, will the Great Plains become a 21st-century Sunbelt, attracting newcomers (and the congressional clout that goes with them) as did the South and Southwest in the 1900s?
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , July 23, 2012
OUR OPINION: Make office’s first cut in hours also the last
If there’s a better way to make sure state offices are staffed up and can handle surges, North Dakota should find it — because more surges likely are on their way.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , June 20, 2012
OUR OPINION: West should ease its man-camp moratorium
“Yes, the man camps cause problems, just substantially less problems than any other way to handle it.”
That quote from a comment on a Dickinson (N.D.) Press story sums the situation up.
By Tom Dennis for the Herald , May 15, 2012
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