Category: Law, Government, Politics

Here’s an update to a post I wrote last night regarding North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Douglas Goehring. Thanks to Valerie Barbie-Bluemle for pointing this out to me this morning. You can read yesterday's post by going here. The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General released its report Monday which tells why they will … Continue reading Another Black Eye for North Dakota

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Douglas Goehring is all over the news media this week saying he was “blindsided” by the EPA. Looks to me like he was just blind. And pretty stupid too, and now he’s going to cost the U.S. taxpayers a bunch of money, if the EPA has to send in a team … Continue reading Douglas Goehring and The EPA: The Real Story

North Dakota’s oil boom was built on the back of lax regulation of the oil industry.           Period. When Jack Dalrymple takes credit for the oil boom, let’s remind him: The train that blew up in West Virginia Monday did not have to blow up. It could have derailed without blowing up. It’s easy to … Continue reading Another Oil “Boom”

The Prairie Blog has learned that the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) has bought the Comedy Central television network for an undisclosed sum that is said to be about half of what former NBC News anchor Brian Williams earns in a year. “We had a bunch of cash lying around, and decided this would be a … Continue reading NBC Buys Comedy Central In A ‘Big F**king Deal’

Here's a story about the best customer service ever. Even better than the lady who almost bankrupted Herberger's. It started last March when Lillian and I attended a presentation by Robert Hanna of the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation at the former North Dakota Governor's Mansion. Robert's Foundation has taken over the interpretation of … Continue reading Golden Bison Tomatoes and Thoughts of Spring

I’ve been writing about the North Dakota Bad Lands on this blog since I first created it in 2009. I have tried to focus on what forces are affecting this important part of North Dakota’s landscape, and why it is such a special place, deserving of more attention and protection than it is getting from … Continue reading “The Badlands Are Willfully Coquettish”

Okay, I’m going to take another whack at the Outdoor Heritage Fund after getting off on too many tangents in yesterday’s article. Plus, there’s new information coming out daily in light of the sharp drop in oil prices, leading to a sharp drop in state tax revenues. Here’s what we know for sure: The Outdoor … Continue reading Wading Through More Outdoor Heritage Fund Questions

During last year’s campaign for and against Measure 5, the Clean Water, Wildlife and Parks amendment to the North Dakota Constitution, opponents of the amendment—the Greater North Dakota Chamber, the North Dakota Grain Growers, the North Dakota Petroleum Council, the North Dakota Farm Bureau, the North Dakota Farmers Union, the North Dakota Stockmen, the Lignite … Continue reading What If the Governor, the Attorney General and the Agriculture Commissioner All Went to the Pokey?

If I were a North Dakota Democrat, here’s what I would say to my fellow party members: I turned on the Rachel Maddow show last night and, as usual, she had her headlights on bright, and the deer in those headlights was a young North Dakota Democratic-NPL legislator named Corey Mock. The subject was the … Continue reading THE ANSWER

           Based upon the analysis contained within the Elkhorn Gravel Pit EA, and taking into consideration the applicants private property rights, my regulatory authority, and considering public comment received, I have decided to implement Alternative 2 as described in the EA (pages 23-25) for Elkhorn Minerals LLC’s development of the proposed Elkhorn Gravel Pit. Under … Continue reading Elkhorn Ranch Update #2