WASHINGTON, DC – In a letter sent to Obama Administration Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, North Dakota’s congressional delegation asked for penalties against Delta Airlines for failing to keep up federally subsidized flights from the Devils Lake and Jamestown airports. “Devils Lake and Jamestown have spent considerable time, money, and effort to build their passenger [...]
BISMARCK, ND – Today Senator John Hoeven along with other top state and local officials met with management from Delta Airlines in Jamestown to pressure the commercial air carrier to reconsider its plans to discontinue services to Devils Lake and Jamestown on its commuter line, Mesaba Air. Hoeven and state, local and airport officials briefed [...]
BISMARCK, ND – Today, 514 new laws will take effect, passed by the 2011 62nd Legislative Assembly and signed into law by Governor Jack Dalrymple. While this may seem like an extraordinary amount of new legislation, in fact, it marks the lowest number of bills signed into law in the past 30 years. The highest [...]
BISMARCK, ND – Governor Jack Dalrymple and the state’s congressional delegation continue working to marshall all the resources they can to help North Dakotans affected by this year’s record floods. Dalrymple and the delegation are pressing the President and FEMA to grant individual assistance authorization for all of the 22 counties and two reservations hit hard [...]
BISMARCK, ND – “We’re making progess,” Governor Jack Dalrymple told Scott Hennen this afternoon, going on to say that “FEMA finally admitted to us” that they have completely changed their policy approach to approving state requests for individual assistance this year. Prior to this year, once a state reached a certain threshold for damages, FEMA [...]
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GRAND FORKS – “All these things, when you see them first hand, it really hits you, it really strikes you,” Congressman Rick Berg said on the Scott Hennen show today, emphasizing the importance of President Obama accepting Governor Jack Dalrymple’s invitation to come and tour the state’s flood sites. “There are hundreds homes where all [...]
BISMARCK, ND – FEMA has rejected North Dakota’s request for individual assistance for citizens affected by flooding disasters across the state. Governor Jack Dalrymple was shocked by FEMA’s rejection and has sent a letter asking the agency to reconsider its decision. So far, more than 800 homes in Bismarck-Mandan have been evacuated, and the flood [...]
BISMARCK, ND – Governor Jack Dalrymple and the ND congressional delegation met with Amtrak officials in Washington, DC today, urging Amtrak to invest in critical upgrades to the Church’s Ferry railroad bridge and in other necessary infrastructure improvements on their Empire Building line in North Dakota. Yesterday, Amtrak announced that it will resume service from [...]
Devils Lake, ND – Devils Lake Mayor Richard Johnson appeared on the Scott Hennen show yesterday and told listeners that residents of the area “will not approve a control structure on our land that we own out in the Tolna Coulee. The east end outlet as being proposed is ineffectual,” Johnson continued. “It doesn’t have [...]
BISMARCK, ND – “The biggest thing is the power of the Missouri River,” ND Congressman Rick Berg observed about the flood waters he viewed yesterday in Bismarck and Mandan. The river is moving between 12-15 mph now. “You see it eroding, ripping trees off the banks” said Berg. “It’s a really powerful river, and it’s [...]