Recently North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm blasted Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota for sending some of its personnel on sales trips to tropical locations.  Now, given how quickly Blue Cross Blue Shield has raised its rates over the last few years, given how much strain that p...

The Grand Forks Alerus Center Financial Disaster on the Prairie I want to start off by saying that this is speculation.  On the other hand when the Alerus Commission and City Leaders aren’t giving us the complete picture you have to wonder why.  When the Grand Forks Herald shows NO i...

You gotta love Texas. The plurality of Texas voters (47%) support Governor Rick Perry’s opposition to accepting the state’s $17 billion share of the national economic stimulus package. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 40% think the governor should accept the money, an...

Unbelievable: BISMARCK - In a Wednesday overview for the North Dakota University System budget bill, Senate Bill 2003, chancellor Bill Goetz urged lawmakers to look at the budget requests more as policy issues than budget issues. “The success of the university system does not rest just with th...

Earlier today I posted about the upcoming news conference by Mike Brown laying out his vision for the future.  Well the first reports are out and they smell fishy to me. It IS a monorail; and an aquarium, too… First, Brown didn’t call it a “monorail;” he said “ligh...

White Elephant on the Prairie! Boy, things are getting worse and worse: Recently, city leaders have talked about a write-off of $872,000 that City Hall had transferred to the city-owned events center for its operations. City officials expected payback from the ¾-percent sales tax dedicated to the A...

White Elephant on the Prairie! As our loyal readers know, last month Say Anything broke the story about how the City of Grand Forks was secretly subsidizing the failed Alerus Center to the tune of nearly $900,000.  At that time nobody seemed concerned about this misuse of our money. Now that we...

After the initiated measure to cut income taxes went down under a cloud of taxpayer funded lobbying from people like state university professors, I posted on this blog promising that the issue would be addressed in the legislature. I worked with Rep. Dan Ruby to develop a bill banning the practice.&...

Monday Rob did a post about two bills in the ND house that are designed to limit future property tax increases in exchange for more funding from the state.  Rob disagreed with the concept but I think it’s the best thing that can come out of the legislature this year. My understanding is t...

I heard from a friend in Bismarck who attending the hearing about HB1572, which would essentially define a human being as anything with genome of homo sapiens.  Which, of course, would be unborn children. He said the committee went extreme well, and that the pro-abortion advocates in attendance...