Kevin Daley on October 9, 2018 The U.S. Supreme Court will allow a North Dakota law requiring voters to produce government ID with a current residential street address when casting ballots to take effect. The decision, which came Tuesday and drew a brief dissent, will effect one November’s most critical Senate races. A group of American…
Written By: Squiggly Line Guy Follow on Facebook or Twitter The saga of The Piggyback Bandit has been one of the strangest ongoing stories of the last decade, and it hasn’t ended yet. Sherwin Shayegan received this nickname after being dubbed as such by an article in the Associated Press, republished by a puzzled ESPN. He…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: _____________________________________________________________________________________________ by CHRIS WHITE Only a handful of stragglers remain at campsites in North Dakota set up for activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, said during a news conference Wednesday there are only 25 to 50 protesters left at the Riverside campsite. He said the…
Andrew Follett The oil boom in North Dakota is slackening due to low prices, but the region isn’t close to going bust and still has tons of jobs, details a Sunday article in The New York Times. The shale boom has utterly changed North Dakota’s economy, making it the center of America’s rapidly growing oil industry…
By Michael Bastasch Oil production is booming in North Dakota, hitting more than one million barrels per day in April and May, according to government data. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and horizontal drilling have played a major role. According to the Energy Information Administration, increased production from the “Williston Basin’s Bakken and Three Forks formations”…
WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA–Mark J. Perry, an acclaimed economics professor and writer, recently took a trip to Williston, North Dakota. Despite its remote location, the city is in the midst of an economic boom after the Bakken oil fields began gushing shale oil. Bakken produces one million barrels of oil per day, making it one of…