Dustin Gawrylow
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
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on February 1, 2012 at 01:15 pm
The latest annual report from the non-partisan Tax Foundation ranks North Dakota 29th in the nation in the area of "Business Friendly Tax Policy." (The full PDF of the report…...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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on January 18, 2012 at 11:51 am
Picking Winners and Losers in North Dakota Last week, we told you about how a company in oil boom country was given a five-year exemption on income taxes due…...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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on December 14, 2011 at 10:02 am
EPA Report stokes fears of crackdown in North Dakota Yesterday afternoon, a story broke that caused further panic in the oil Is the EPA targeting North Dakota's…...
Monday, December 05, 2011
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on December 5, 2011 at 09:15 am
Berg rightly rejects Senator Hoeven's backing of EPA's assurances Congressman Rick Berg has justifiably come out in disagreement with Senator John Hoeven's support of "assurances" the EPA has…...
Monday, November 07, 2011
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on November 7, 2011 at 12:30 pm
To implement or not implement ObamaCare - that is the question facing every state in the nation. Unfortunately, the State legislature is making it very difficult for…...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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on October 18, 2011 at 09:31 am
This weekend, the Bismarck Tribune came out with an editorial saying much of the same things that NDTA has been saying with regard to the plans to implement federal legislation…...
Monday, October 17, 2011
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on October 17, 2011 at 01:27 pm
There are many people who think that "tax fairness" is defined by someone else paying more. The recent issue of internet taxation has brought this issue to the forefront.With…...
Friday, September 02, 2011
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on September 2, 2011 at 07:14 am
Over the last few days, several issues involving Higher Education have developed due to an interim legislative committee hearing on Tuesday, August 30th. Separately these seem may…...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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on August 30, 2011 at 04:20 am
Take the Survey! This week the North Dakota Insurance Department will start holding public hearings regarding the establishment of the "healthcare exchanges" as dictated by ObamaCare. The first…...
Thursday, August 18, 2011
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on August 18, 2011 at 10:00 am
In college, anyone who takes courses in Management has reviewed the work of W. Edwards Demming and has studied how fear in the workplace is the most destructive force to…...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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on August 17, 2011 at 09:31 am
DSU Investigation Enters New Phase Chancellor Bill Goetz Properly Hands Off Investigation To Auditor's Office As the investigation of the Dickinson State University scandal expands,…...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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on August 16, 2011 at 04:02 am
How much is Chancellor Bill Goetz's actions going to cost North Dakota Taxpayers in legal fees and severance pay? Yesterday, we told you how new information uncovered by…...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
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on August 9, 2011 at 06:48 am
The developing drama regarding "fake students" at Dickinson State University is a symptom of a bigger problem in higher education. There has been a culture in higher education that rejects…...
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
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on August 3, 2011 at 09:12 am
Now that the deal struck by Congress has been signed into law, it is important to debunk the myth-based statements regarding this deal before such statements become accepted as conventional…...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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on July 19, 2011 at 07:44 am
North Dakota Leads The Nation In Subsidizing Out-Of-State College Students A major policy issue that NDTA has long focused on is now getting national attention in the…...
Thursday, July 14, 2011
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on July 14, 2011 at 08:32 am
This morning, Governor Jack Dalrymple appeared on CNBC's Squak Box. On worldwide cable TV he more than implied that the flooding problems that North Dakota is having would have some…...
Monday, May 23, 2011
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on May 23, 2011 at 08:54 am
Last week, the story of NDSU's massive tuition increase continued as NDSU President Dean Bresciani went on talk radio to say that quote: "NDSU has been steadily starved to death."…...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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on May 18, 2011 at 07:23 am
Over the last several weeks there has been a lot of noise coming out of Washington D.C. regarding the potential to jack up energy taxes, a move which would only…...
Monday, May 16, 2011
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on May 16, 2011 at 06:37 am
This morning, the Bismarck Tribune editorial nailed it when it comes to the Board of Higher Education's approach to dealing with the NDSU tuition issue: The decision by the…...
Friday, May 13, 2011
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on May 13, 2011 at 07:48 am
Continuing the saga of the 9% tuition increase at NDSU, we find out that NDSU will be benefiting from $12 million in new state spending for a completely new program…...
Monday, May 09, 2011
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on May 9, 2011 at 10:17 am
Today, Dean Bresciani, president of North Dakota State University, announced that he would be asking the Board of Higher Education for an 8.8% tuition increase. This despite the fact…...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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Beacon Author
on April 26, 2011 at 11:19 am
The Public Pension Shore-Up (Bailout) Earlier this year, the N.D. House of Representatives declined to reform either of the public pension programs: PERS (state workers) or TFFR (teachers). Currently,…...
Monday, March 07, 2011
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on March 7, 2011 at 10:01 am
The update on Monday regarding Public Sector vs. Private Sector Salaries created a lot of feedback andseems to have created a lot of anger. Local media covered it, and it even got noticed by…...
Thursday, March 03, 2011
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on March 3, 2011 at 07:42 am
With the situation in Wisconsin, as well as our own public pension debate, a lot of people have emailed me asking what the real story is with North Dakota's public employee…...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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on February 15, 2011 at 04:51 pm
Today, the North Dakota House of Representatives passed $150 million dollars worth of income tax cuts: $100 million for individuals (HB 1289) and $50 million in corporate income taxes (HB…...
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on February 15, 2011 at 02:37 am
Should Not Be 'Shouted Down' As The Fargo Forum Suggests There are some in this state, including newpaper editorial boards, that believe any discussion of changing the way the North…...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
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on February 8, 2011 at 11:22 am
February 3rd, 2011, the taxpayers of North Dakota scored the first victory in the House Committee on Government and Veterans Affairs with regard to reforming the public pension system. The…...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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on January 26, 2011 at 11:15 am
The North Dakota University System is out of control. Most legislators, of both parties, will agree with that to some extent (Sometimes publicly, more often privately.) Both taxpayers…...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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on January 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm
No More Bailouts Without REAL Reform! The issue of property tax reform and relief will not go away. As we have seen since the Legislature…...
Thursday, December 16, 2010
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on December 16, 2010 at 10:10 am
Governor Dalrymple's First Budget Proposal Strong on Infrastructure, Weak on Clarity and Transparency North Dakota's newly inducted governor, Jack Dalrymple, presented his first state budget proposal last week. At…...
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