Rob Port
Blogger and Columnist at The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
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1 week ago |
inforum.com | Rob Port
MINOT — A Ward County sheriff's deputy has been cited for driving with an open container after telling a bartender that he wouldn't get in trouble for it even if she called police. Per an incident report obtained from the Minot Police Department, a bartender at the Spicy Pie restaurant in Minot contacted law enforcement, indicating that a law enforcement officer "named Chris" drove away from her establishment with an open container.
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1 week ago |
inforum.com | Rob Port
MINOT — The North Dakota Republican Party censured Republican Gov. Kelly Armstrong at a recent meeting. And yes, despite what some party leaders are now saying, Armstrong does see it that way.
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1 week ago |
inforum.com | Rob Port
MINOT — In the closing hours of North Dakota's legislative session, Rep. Scott Louser, dissatisfied with the $1,600 primary residence credit lawmakers were approving, promised he would back an initiated measure campaign to put what he described as more comprehensive reform and relief on the ballot.
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1 week ago |
inforum.com | Rob Port
MINOT — “A North Dakota agency says law enforcement across the state worked overtime to make hundreds of distracted driving stops in April,” Forum reporter April Baumgarten wrote in a June 13 story. Vision Zero, the state program aimed at traffic safety, sent out a press release claiming officers “wrote a total of 754 citations while working overtime as part of the 'Put the Phone Away or Pay’ campaign,” though the value of this enforcement is difficult to discern.
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1 week ago |
inforum.com | Rob Port
MINOT — Over the weekend, I reported that the governing State Committee of the North Dakota Republican Party had voted, twice, to censure Gov. Kelly Armstrong. Once for the property tax reform and relief bill he backed (which all but four lawmakers in Bismarck voted for), and the other for his veto of book ban legislation.
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North Dakota's federal delegation has asked us to weather federal cuts because of the seriousness of the debt problem. Meanwhile, they've backed Trump and Musk, who are demonstrably unserious people. https://t.co/HUFLKyZ97B
The so-called "Freedom League" launched yesterday as a sort of political party within the North Dakota Republican Party. They're hoping voters won't notice they're a different sort of Republican. https://t.co/VRbqFi0er5
Voters in Minot could have approved a significant property tax reduction. They rejected it, which is a blow to the theory that the public is dissatisfied with the Legislature's property tax reforms. https://t.co/Q7sg4GCqXT