ST. PAUL, MN – Public input is required before the legislature takes action on a proposed $1.1 billion Vikings stadium, according to MN House Speaker Kurt Zellers. Appearing on the Scott Hennen Show earlier today, Zellers said that Republicans “don’t want the Vikings to leave,” but their main priority is private sector job growth, which [...]
ST. PAUL, MN – Dispelling claims that GOP Presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney is not a desirable candidate for the tea-party wing of the Republican party, former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty assured Romney skeptics that over time, “things will reveal themselves” to show Romney as a powerful voice for the party’s conservative base. Appearing on the [...]
GRAND FORKS, ND – More alcohol-related controversy is brewing for the University of North Dakota. Beth Delano, an 85 year old Fighting Sioux fan whose suds-sipping exploits are frequently captured on the Ralph Engelstad Arena’s jumbo projection screen — earning her hometown celebrity status as the “Beer Grandma”— has drawn criticism from university officials due [...]
MINOT, ND – A sense of urgency to accommodate the roughly 2,500 homeowners left displaced after this spring’s devastating flood – as well as the influx of new workers drawn to the surge of economic opportunity from the oil patch – has placed a new housing project in Minot on the “fast-track” to completion, according [...]
MINOT, ND – As a potential sign that the economic development fueled by North Dakota oil is here to stay, companies seeking to capitalize on lucrative opportunities in North Dakota’s oil patch are contracting developers to build homes for their Westward-bound employees, one developer says. Speaking on the Scott Hennen Show earlier today, Kent Busek, [...]
CROOKSTON, MN – Leaders of the American Crystal Sugar Union are misleading their members with falsehoods and scare tactics in an attempt to extend the three month-long lockout according to a former union member and American Crystal employee. Jerry Hoiseth – who worked for 39 years at American Crystal Sugar and once served as the [...]
BISMARCK, ND – New regulations will soon go into effect to improve safety conditions on all of North Dakota’s oil fields, Plains Daily has learned. The additional regulations, which will be implemented into the North Dakota Industrial Commission’s code for its Oil and Gas Division, target management of reserve pits and hydraulic fracturing operations. The [...]
RAPID CITY, SD – An amendment that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing new rules that would potentially affect farmers in the heartland is kicking up dust. Proposed by Congresswoman Kristi Noem, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011 (H.R. 1633) would prevent funding for additional dust regulation if the EPA modifies [...]
MOORHEAD, MN – Now that a complaint issued by American Crystal Sugar Union to the National Labor Relations Board Regional Director has been rejected, American Crystal Sugar Vice President Brian Ingulsrud is optimistic that the two parties can return to the negotiating table. The NLRB found that the striking members “failed to establish that the [...]
BISMARCK, ND –Public Service Commissioner Kevin Cramer expressed serious concern about an apparent presumption of guilt that motivated the US Wildlife Department’s 45 day helicopter search for dead birds in North Dakota’s oil fields. “That’s chilling to me in a free society” Cramer told Eugene Graner on today’s broadcast of the Scott Hennen Show. “I’m [...]
