Consider a distinguished econ professor, Dr. R.P. Vanwinkle, specialist in macro theory and money and banking from the University of Chicago, perhaps. Bonked on the head by a wayward firework at the 1999-2000 New Year’s millennial celebration, she wakes up in a nursing home this week, and wo…
The recent theft of tax information on wealthy people, apparently by some IRS employee, and its delivery to ProPublica certainly has caused a stir. The disclosure was a crime and should be punished, but the information is informative about our current tax structures and needed reforms.
We are sailing our economy through uncharted waters. Moreover, these waters are not the serene southern Pacific seen by early European explorers. Rather, they are treacherous ones replete with rocks, shoals, unknown currents where howling storms can spring out of nowhere.
Prices for basic commodities including farm crops, ores and metals, or fuels such as crude oil and its derivatives have been rising rapidly in recent months. What is causing this? How will it affect our overall economy or our own households? Readers posed these questions in response to the M…
The COVID-19 pandemic still working its way out will enter history as a major exogenous shock to the global economy. We won’t see a smooth return to the status quo that prevailed before 2020, if at all.
The word “inflation” is much in the news, prompting many questions. Are we experiencing inflation, or will we be soon? If so, why? Is it increased federal spending in response to a COVID-induced slowdown in output and employment? Or is even the mere discussion of greater federal spending to …
Patents are a necessary evil. The problem is that the degrees both of necessity and of evil vary greatly from product to product. Yet simplicity demands that there be one common protective term for all new patents.
The Biden administration’s initiative to make community college education free is centered on a good idea. But it is framed badly. And, as always, there are lots of institutional snags that will challenge its implementation.
When my doctor said, “We need to get you a fine-needle aspiration as soon as possible,” I immediately knew that I was entering a different chapter in my life. Nine years later, it is clear that my neck carcinoma brought me unexpected gifts, a minor one of which was yet another example of the…
Truth in the old adage that politics makes strange bedfellows is demonstrated from time to time. This is a sign of a healthy democracy. That is especially true now in our nation after a quarter-century of the erosion of bipartisanship. Precious few contemporary issues bring members of Congre…
The feared collapse of a west Florida phosphate mine waste containment dike did not happen last week. Evacuees are back in their houses. All is good. Yet this incident, which received scant news coverage outside of Florida, contained potential consequences as bad as similar spills in North C…
Old-time vaudeville star Jimmy Durante’s catchphrase, “Everybody wants ta get inta the act!” well describes the current state of cryptocurrencies. These are forms of electronic money, the accounting and control of which are outside usual banking and government-sanctioned central banking orbi…
The grounded container ship blocking the Suez Canal for six days has been dislodged. Traffic is flowing. Backlogs of waiting ships soon will be eliminated. Estimates of damage to the global economy probably will prove overblown. Life goes on.
Read through the obituaries published today in The Bismarck Tribune.
Read through the obituaries published today in The Bismarck Tribune.
The North Dakota Department of Transportation is holding a public input meeting Monday on proposed improvements to State Street in north Bismarck.
Bismarck police are seeking the public's help in finding a missing man who is considered endangered.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a man in Sioux Falls has been deemed to be a justified use of deadly force, according to South Dakota’s Division of Criminal Investigation.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A man whose car was struck by several bullets at Keelboat Park told Bismarck police the shooter or shooters tried to kill him in retaliation because he no longer wanted to be part of their gang.
Bismarck Public Schools is looking to expand its career and technical education offerings, including adding middle school to the program.
A public ceremony is set Monday to light the official North Dakota State Christmas Tree.
A man whose car was struck by a number of bullets at Keelboat Park told Bismarck police the shooter or shooters tried to kill him in retaliation because he no longer wanted to be part of their gang.
Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Mandan man suspected of paying a teenage boy $100 to break into a home and steal money owed in a drug debt.
Authorities have arrested a Mandan man they say had 68 fentanyl pills in his car and told them he’d sold thousands of pills in recent months.
A Bismarck driver whom police revived with a drug overdose medication when she passed out at a busy intersection has been sentenced to a year in prison.
A public ceremony is set Monday to light the official North Dakota State Christmas Tree.
North Dakota stands to receive at least $2 billion from the federal bipartisan infrastructure bill, but state officials so far have little information about it.
PIERRE, S.D. — The South Dakota Department of Health is beginning to issue medical marijuana cards, but officials say it could be months before dispensaries will have anything to sell.
A legal battle is headed to North Dakota's Supreme Court over access to thousands of documents related to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the company that oversaw security during construction.
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