Donkephant

You likely missed this, but he North Dakota House voted to increase the state mandated minimum insurance for cars this week.  It increased the minimums from 25k/50k/25k to 50k/100k/50k.  Doubled.  Not really that big of a deal to me as I already carry more than that on my cars, but it could mean someting to [...]

Can be waylaid by the weather.  My Friend Jake and I were/are planning on going to the North Dakota Public Policy Institute gathering in Bismarck tomorrow.  Unfortunately, it looks like the weather is going to put a bit of a halt to it.  We’re still planning on going, but it’s gone from a sure thing [...]

I’d like to give a few thoughts on some election results that are a little closer to me.  In my home state, one of the big races was the race for U.S. Congress between the incumbent Earl Pomeroy and challenger Duane Sand.  I voted for Sand.  He lost. There were two measures in ND that [...]

This is a response to a letter to the editor that was published in the Jamestown Sun on 9/23/2008.  You can read the letter here.  That’s the print version, so hopefully it will stay up for a while. Let me start by saying that no one is asking for the money to be returned to [...]

Well, apparently North Dakota is a much bigger deal tomorrow than I had previously though.  Or at least it is according to Mitt Romney.  His campaign office is complaining to the Attorney General about some “prank” phone calls that were purporting to be in support of the Romney campaign.  They also seem to have found [...]

Wayne Hauge of Ray, ND has asked a judge in Bismarck to force the DEA to abide by a North Dakota state law that makes the growing of industrial hemp legal. Currently, the DEA sees industrial hemp on the same lines as the more popular marijuana and as such, both are illegal to grow. Hauge [...]