Chris Hennen

​NORTH DAKOTA ECONOMIC PICTURE DIMS

This week, North Dakota Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger announced that taxable sales and purchases in the state are down 19% to $22.9 billion, the lowest total since 2011, affected no doubt by low oil prices. This...

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​Cruz comes to Fargo

This weekend, I had a chance to see presidential candidate Ted Cruz speak at the North Dakota GOP Convention in Fargo. He spoke to convention delegates hoping to convince them he was the right choice over Donald Trump. Actual...

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​ND Dems select Chase Iron Eyes

Over the weekend, North Dakota Democrats nominated Native American activist Chase Iron Eyes to run against Congressman Kevin Cramer for US House in 2016 at their state convention. Almost immediately, Iron Eyes came under attack...

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Fargo Police pressured Spring Jam venues

For the second year in a row, the Fargo police department talked to venues who had agreed to host the annual Spring Jam hip hop concert hosted by rapper J-Sauce aka Jason Grant and tried to convince them not to hold the event....

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​SXSW 2016: The big and the small

I first started going to SXSW with a Minneapolis band with Fargo roots called The Deaths, who got accepted to perform at the festival. They never went anywhere but ended up playing the festival twice and I got hooked on it. I...

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