POLITICS
REPUBLIC INSIDER Smart move, Stephanie
If you're a reader of The Daily Republic, you may know I wrote a column recently in which I advised Stephanie Herseth Sandlin to either forgo next year's Senate race in order to fulfill her expresse...
Posted on 5/13/13 at 8:40 AM
RURAL REFLECTIONS Rural Reflections Radio
Here is this week's Rural Reflections Radio program, Bullitt...
Posted on 5/10/13 at 10:39 AM
STAFF BLOG OIL PATCH DISPATCH WITH FORUM COMMUNICATIONS' AMY DALRYMPLE N.D. House rejects oil tax reform bill
BISMARCK -- House legislators Wednesday rejected an oil tax reform bill that would have lowered the oil extraction tax, closed a tax loophole for low-producing wells and set up guidelines for a new tr...
Posted on 5/1/13 at 7:22 PM
THE DULLUM FILE Senator Heitkamp on News @5
Senator Heidi Heitkamp joins us this evening on WDAZ News @5....
Posted on 2/21/13 at 12:24 PM
NEW PLATEAUS In the Not-Now
What does it say about Americans that the public is already starting to talk about candidates for president for 2016? Eckhart Tolle wrote in his book The Power of Now that mankind is threatened by ou...
Posted on 2/18/13 at 11:27 AM
Director of Fargo abortion clinic to appear on Rachel Maddow show tonight 
NEW YORK – The director of North Dakota’s only abortion clinic will be on “The Rachel Maddow Show” tonight for an in-studio interview.
By Forum staff reports , April 29, 2013
National GOP group has spent $250,000 in Minn. lobbying for gay marriage
ST. PAUL – A national group of prominent GOP donors that supports gay marriage is pouring new money into lobbying efforts to get Republican lawmakers to vote to make it legal.
By Associated Press , April 27, 2013
Minn. dad sues school over anti-abortion fliers
Man says daughter’s rights were violatedST. PAUL – A father is accusing St. Paul charter school officials of violating his sixth-grade daughter’s right to free speech when administrators prohibited her from passing out anti-abortion fliers.
By Associated Press , April 27, 2013
Anti-tax group’s Minnesota rally attracts hundreds
ST. PAUL – More than 600 people gathered at the Minnesota Capitol for the Taxpayer Freedom Rally on Saturday.
By Associated Press , April 27, 2013
Politics and a Plate slated Wednesday
FARGO – The United Republican Committee will host their May Politics and a Plate meeting from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Holiday Inn.
By Forum staff reports , April 27, 2013
ND 'has lost one of the true giants': Former Gov. Guy dies at 93
WEST FARGO - William L. Guy, governor of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973 and a force behind the modernization of of the state during that 12-year stretch, died at his West Fargo home this morning. He was 93.
By Chuck Haga, Forum News Service , April 26, 2013
In speech to Planned Parenthood, Obama takes aim at ND abortion bills
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama vowed Friday to join Planned Parenthood in fighting against what he said are efforts by states to turn women's health back to the 1950s, before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide, and singled out the GOP-governed states of North Dakota and Mississippi for criticism.
By Associated Press , April 26, 2013
VIDEO: Presidents help George W. Bush dedicate library
DALLAS — President Barack Obama on Thursday praised his predecessor at the dedication of his library for showing strength and resolve in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks and said if Congress passes immigration reform “it will be in large part thanks to the hard work of President George W. Bush.”
By Associated Press , April 25, 2013
Republican businessman to run for Minn. governor
Scott Honour revealed his plans Wednesday in an email and simultaneously launched a campaign website for the 2014 race. The investment banker from Wayzata started several businesses and has no previous political experience.
By Patrick Condon, Associated Press , April 24, 2013
Reeling elsewhere, labor poised for gains in Minnesota
State emerging as one of few places where unions are faring wellST. PAUL – Sitting side by side before state lawmakers, Minnesota Orchestra horn player Brian Jensen and third-generation sugar worker Becki Jacobson couldn’t have come from much different worlds.
By Brian Bakst, Associated Press , April 23, 2013
Minn.'s Kline says no to Senate/governor run
ST. PAUL — Rep. John Kline says he's not interested in running for the U.S. Senate or governor next year.
By Associated Press , April 19, 2013
Lawmaker apologizes for calling women ‘vaginas’
LITTLETON, New Hampshire – A New Hampshire state representative apologized on Wednesday for using “vagina” as a synonym for “woman” in a mass email to lawmakers as part of a gun-law debate.
By Jason McLure, Reuters , April 17, 2013
Heitkamp won't support background checks expansion up for Senate vote
WASHINGTON – Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said in a statement this morning that she doesn’t “see a path for my support” on a proposal on the Senate floor today to expand background checks for gun sales.
By Forum staff reports , April 17, 2013
Obama’s newly released 2014 budget lacks funds for F-M diversion
FARGO – For the first time in four years, President Barack Obama’s annual budget proposal doesn’t provide funding for the Fargo-Moorhead diversion project, which the chairman of the Diversion Authority said may slow the project but won’t stop it.
By Mike Nowatzki , April 10, 2013
Minn. GOP chooses former state representative Downey as chairman
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Minnesota Republicans picked a former state lawmaker from Edina on Saturday to take over their struggling party, banking on his vow to unite a group still struggling financially and reeling from a five-year statewide losing streak.
By Associated Press , April 06, 2013
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