Nearly 1,900 North Dakota families are on a waitlist for state childcare assistance. A bill draft to be considered for North Dakota’s upcoming special legislative session would add $9 million in state funding to get some of the neediest families off of the growing waitlist. “This is about low-income families who want to work,” said […]
Top North Dakota Republican lawmakers are proposing tens of millions of dollars in a line of credit for restarting construction of the Military Gallery that has been paused for more than a month due to a fundraising shortfall. Their proposal also gives final decision-making authority and approval of donor naming rights to boards that lawmakers […]
Leading members of the Alaska House and Senate said this week that they will not meet to discuss Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s latest attempt to provide a tax break for the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline. The bill, said Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon and Senate President Gary Stevens, lacks the support to advance in […]
A North Dakota lawmaker is proposing legislation to ask President Donald Trump to grant clemency for two men convicted in connection with the infamous 1983 Medina shootout that left two federal officers dead. Sen. Jeff Magrum, R-Hazelton, said he plans to present a resolution to a key legislative panel on Monday regarding convicted killers Scott […]
Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday introduced a new natural gas pipeline bill that he characterized as a compromise between conflicting philosophies on oil and gas taxes that he wants lawmakers to pass during the ongoing special session. The new bill would nearly eliminate property taxes that would be charged on the operator of a yet-to-be-built […]
A Democratic lawmaker in North Dakota is calling for the Legislature to address data centers while legislators are gathered for a special session next month. But a top legislative leader is skeptical that a three-day special session, focused on regulating kratom, is the right time to debate data centers. Sen. Tim Mathern of Fargo plans […]
Jamie Selzler, an active leader of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, will take Fargo Mayor Josh Boschee’s seat in the state Senate, the District 44 Dem-NPL executive committee announced Tuesday. Selzler, a former executive director of the Dem-NPL Party, has served as the state’s Democratic National Committeeman for the past three years and has been […]
ANNAPOLIS — Legislators returned to Annapolis on Monday for a special session on redistricting, an issue that affects all Marylanders, but Eastern Shore residents in particular.
North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong on Monday declared a public health emergency banning all kratom products and called a special session of the Legislature for September to further address enforcement. Kratom is a substance derived from a tropical tree in Southeast Asia that officials say can be synthesized into highly potent forms and put into […]
The Alaska Legislature ended the first week of its third special session on the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline with no action. The session is for lawmakers to consider a property tax break to incentivize the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline, but Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who called the session and set the agenda, has yet […]
