HeyJaredRob Port
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Port: I've changed my mind on the school meals measure, and I'm voting against it (opens the original)
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MINOT — North Dakota families shouldn't be paying school lunch fees. The arguments for this are plentiful. For a family with two kids in school, meals can add up to around $1,600 per year. You may not have noticed, but between inflation and fuel prices and housing costs and grocery prices and wage growth that isn't really keeping up with any of it, times are tough for young families. Covering school meals would amount to significant tax relief for families with school-age children. The naysayers
Guest column: One bad actor doesn't define 5,000 nonprofits. But it should make all of us better (opens the original)
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Well, it's been a week if you're a nonprofit leader. Let me be incredibly direct: What happened at the F5 Project is not OK. Self-dealing, luxury perks funded by mission dollars, a private side business profiting off nonprofit contracts while staff pay was frozen is not a gray area. That's a violation of public trust, and the attorney general was right to act on it. But the blanket cynicism that follows stories like this? "They're ALL like that." "Nonprofits are just a scam." That's not accounta
Plain Talk: 'I think it's complete garbage' (opens the original)
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MINOT — It's time for playoff baseball, and we had Gov. Kelly Armstrong, a notorious baseball addict on par with us hosts of the Plain Talk podcast, on this episode to make some predictions about the path to the World Series. But before we talked about that stuff, we asked Armstrong about a lawsuit announced by former lawmaker Brandon Prichard and Citizens Alliance accusing several legislative candidates backed by Armstrong, along with Secretary of State Michael Howe, of some hanky-panky concern
Port: Taxpayer funded ads are wrong, and it doesn't matter who is doing it (opens the original)
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MINOT — Recently, President Donald Trump's administration placed a campaign ad on television across the country that was paid for by taxpayer dollars. We know it was paid for by taxpayer dollars because a disclaimer accompanied the ad stating, clearly, "Paid for by the U.S. Government." We know it's a campaign ad because Trump has used it that way in the past accompanied by a disclaimer indicating it was paid for by his campaign. Also, we all have eyeballs and ears. An ad that merely extols the
Port: Watch your North Dakota candidates in the Plain Talk debates (opens the original)
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MINOT — Debates are a hallmark of American politics, and with campaign season beginning in earnest, the Plain Talk podcast team and Forum Communications Company are proud to bring you the Plain Talk Debates. We'll have five of them — U.S. House, agriculture commissioner, superintendent, Measure 1 and Measure 2 — and the focus will be on conversations, not performative, cage-match-style smackdowns. The candidates will be at a round table with my co-host Chad Oban and me, not at podiums, and our h
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