CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Bush's recent nomination of Santanu "Sandy" Baruah to head the Small Business Administration (SBA) was met neither by celebrations or jeers in the small business community, but by a resounding "Who?"
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | yesterday
A tornado tore through several towns in northern North Dakota on Monday, destroying at least one building, damaging others and injuring at least two people, authorities said.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
ROLLA, N.D. -- A tornado tore through several towns in northern North Dakota on Monday, destroying at least one building, damaging others and injuring at least two people, authorities said.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
By JENNYMICHAEL By JENNYMICHAEL Early Thursday morning, five North Dakota National Guard soldiers took off for California.
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
And replace it with more government spending! Seriously, though, if the Governor had been listening to his conservative base he’d have realized that his property tax credit scheme was a loser from the get-go . By DALE WETZEL Associated Press Writer Bismarck, N.D. (AP) Gov. John Hoeven wants to dump a North Dakota income tax credit for state property taxpayers. Lt. Gov. Jack Dalrymple outlined the governor’s...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
CENTER, N.D.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group (NYSE:FPL) and Minnesota Power, an operating division of ALLETE, Inc. today joined about 200 guests near Center to
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
| NatGeo 'Emptied Prairie' writer to insulted N. Dakotans: 'Get over it'Handout, Star Tribune National Geographic, Jan. 2008By , Star Tribune Last update: June 11, 2008 - 1:19 PM Related Content More from The writer of the National Geographic article that branded North Dakota as "The Emptied Prairie" visited the state's capital this week and scoffed at the perceived insult felt by the governor and...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Gov. John Hoeven says North Dakota has received federal approval to expand eligibility for a children's health insurance program.
Peach Pundit (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
GOP Governors have come to the ATL. The current superstar of Republican veep possibilities, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, didn’t come to the RGA’s gathering in Atlanta Wednesday, hosted by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, the current RGA chair. But the more likely choice, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, gave the luncheon speech, and also attending were – in [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
DENVER, June 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The North Dakota Commission on Education Improvement has been selected as the winner of the Education Commission of the States' (ECS) 2008 Frank Newman Award for State Innovation. The award recognizes excellence in state education policymaking, honoring the late Frank Newman, a former ECS president. It will be presented at the 2008 ECS National Forum on Education...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
That’s what I took from the Governor’s support of a sales tax increase to fund “economic development” in Cass County North Dakota. The Governor calls himself a conservative, and yet the idea that we can tax our way to economic prosperity - giving the tax dollars to private economic development committees run by people who aren’t elected and thus are not beholden to citizens in any way - goes against...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
And Republican incumbent John Hoeven has a heavy fund raising lead over liberal challenger Tim Mathern. Hoeven is over $1.5 million . Mathern is just over $100,000 . Hoeven is reporting that 87% of his money came from North Dakotans, but that’s a little misleading. Sure 87% of his contributors are from North Dakota, but according to his last disclosure report from 2007 Hoeven raked in $1,263,891.50...
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana: “As Hoosiers, we can appreciate the devastating impact of the current global food crisis. Our farmers know that the current situation was produced by a complex web of factors…Yet critics have singled out…ethanol, as the primary culprit in the food crisis. They have demanded Congress scale back, or even halt, [...]
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Roger Timm, a former campaign director for John Hoeven last seen spamming people to come to Say Anything and stuff a poll we were running , sent out this email to Fargo-area Republicans today detailing cooperation he’s coordinating with a union to support a sales tax increase (I obtained the email through a reader): Seth Thompson, President of the Building Trades Union, and I met this morning to discuss...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
REPUBLICANS. Top row, from left: Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford; Middle, from left: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Joe Lieberman, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge; Bottom, from left: North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven, Texas Sen. Kay [...]
