Farmers receive just 11-cents from every dollar spent on Thanksgiving

November 21, 2017 jasonspiess 0

Farmers and ranchers take home just 11.4 cents from every dollar that consumers spend on their Thanksgiving dinner meals, according to the annual Thanksgiving edition of the National Farmers Union (NFU) Farmer’s Share publication. The popular Thanksgiving Farmer’s Share compares the retail food price of traditional holiday dinner items to […]

North Dakota’s Newest Big Bad Wolf

April 18, 2017 jasonspiess 0

Throughout history the practice of eminent domain has been abused in the United States.  Abused to the point where the parties taking the land were colloquially referred as the “big bad wolf”.  The first big bad wolf was the railroad. The process was quite simple, the railroad is considered a […]

The future of drilling on the reservation

February 7, 2017 jasonspiess 0

David Williams, CEO, Missouri River Resources Talks about how low prices have turned the industry into a game of survival.  He discusses what their company has done to adjust with low oil prices and what the future looks like for Native American energy development.

Heitkamp comments on her vote for Rex Tillerson

February 1, 2017 jasonspiess 0

U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp comments after voting for Rex Tillerson to serve as the secretary of the U.S. Department of State. “Striking a delicate balance between tough, smart national security strategies and pragmatic diplomacy requires a steady hand – and it’s no easy task,” said Heitkamp. “It’s critical that any […]

Senator Heitkamp comments on SBA’s McMahon

January 26, 2017 jasonspiess 0

U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate hearing in the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, on which Heitkamp serves, considering the nomination of Linda McMahon to lead the U.S. Small Business Administration. Heitkamp met with McMahon one-on-one in her office earlier this month to […]

ND air travel down 11% in 2016

January 20, 2017 jasonspiess 0

  North Dakota’s commercial service airports finished calendar year 2016 with a statewide total of 1,049,457 passenger boardings.  This is an 11% decrease from 2015’s airline passenger boarding count of 1,176,043.  In 2016, the state also saw 1,053,199 passenger deplanements for a grand total of 2,102,656 passengers that have set […]