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Two North Dakota Republican lawmakers who represent part of Burleigh County have been censured by their district party, a trend connected with the expulsion of a state representative this year. District 28 Republicans voted 69-19 on Saturday to censure Sen. Robert Erbele, R-Lehr, and Rep. Mike Brandenburg, R-Edgeley, "in response to the dissatisfaction of many constituents of District 28." Burleigh County resident Marty Beard introduced the resolution for censure, which formally condemns a pers...

Grateful for passage of SB 2037 By Staff | May 8, 2021 LeeAllen and Rebecca Leier, Rugby This year marks the sixth year since Pierce County was targeted for a possible site for a High Level Nuclear Waste repository and the fifth year since a five year, Exploration Borehole and data collection plan was proposed in our county. If implemented, that drilling plan would have been completed in 2021. The purpose of that plan was the collection of data to determine the viability of a permanent High Lev...

Warm spring weather has arrived, and motorcyclists are eager to hit the road. As they tune their engines and prepare for numerous road trips to come, the Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety wants to remind motorists and motorcyclists alike to “Watch for Motorcycles” in order to help prevent motorcycle crashes, deaths and injuries on Missouri roadways. Preliminary reports indicate that 13 percent of all Missouri traffic fatalities in 2020 involved a motorcycle, with 117 motorcyclist lives ...

JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press The 2021 North Dakota Legislature reached its finale early Friday in a session marked by a record-high state budget, the first expulsion of a lawmaker and coronavirus pandemic protocols. Lawmakers adjourned sine die at 12:26 a.m. Friday with approval of the spending bill for the Office of Management and Budget, which also serves as the Legislature’s last-minute catchall measure. Thursday was Day 76 for the Legislature, just short of the 80-day ...

Conservatives sweep District 14 board vote By Sue Sitter - | Apr 24, 2021 Submitted Photo The North Dakota District 14 Republican Party’s new board members posed for a photograph after their election. District 14 Republicans elected an entire new board at their biennial reorganization meeting Saturday, April 10, at the Rugby Cobblestone Inn. The vote signaled a turn toward more conservative values according to the new board chair Bill Kuntz. Meeting organizers had expected a small group in ...

District 14 legislators ‘disappointed’ by GOP board shift By Sue Sitter - | Apr 24, 2021 North Dakota District 14 Representatives Jon Nelson, Robin Weisz and Senator Jerry Klein expressed disappointment with a shift to the right by local Republican Party members at a reorganization meeting held April 10 in Rugby. “I’ve been serving the Rugby area for 24 years,” Nelson said. “We did redistricting 10 years ago and that’s when we became District 14. That’s when Senator Klein and R...

Over the last few sessions the Legislature has approved judicial and corrections reforms. The changes have been successful, but legislators are poised to take a step back, and that would be a mistake. At the same time legislators are considering an overhaul of the juvenile justice system, lawmakers have cut funding for diversion programs for youth. The Youth Cultural Achievement Program, which serves Native American youth and other minorities, is one program in danger of losing funding. With th...

Law enforcement will be out April 16-21 to crack down on drugged drivers.

Rep. Robin Weisz -- were censured in a resolution that mentioned the Simons expulsion as well as some other Bastiat-backed bills they didnt support. Rep. Robin Weisz, R- Hurdsfield, chairman of the House Human Services Committee, (left) listened to testimony during a hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 6, at the North Dakota Capitol. Michelle Griffith / The Forum Even in District 39, where Ben Simons, brother to Luke Simons, was ousted as chairman, a resolution was passed, narrowly, to censure Rep. De...

JEFFERSON CITY – April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month and the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is warning of a rise in speeding and other reckless driving behaviors 2021. During the first quarter of the year, there were 176 fatalities in Missouri as a result of traffic crashes, according to a press release from MoDOT. Though down slightly from the first quarter of 2020, officials remain concerned increases in speed observed during the early stages of the pandemic hav...