SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JUNE 8, 2015
THE BIG PUSH Federal, state and local government have formed a strike force to curb organized crime in the Bakken oil fields. Bismarck, Dickinson, Williston and Minot will each have…...
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Monday, June 08, 2015
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 26, 2015
STALKING-HORSE “In the land of tangled webs, there may come a time when the Standing Rock and Spirit Lake Sioux both support a plain Sioux logo, as has happened previously.”…...
Monday, May 18, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 18, 2015
ILLINOIS HAS THE WORST RANKING of all states for credit quality, according to an insurance industry investment manager. Illinois is an outlier, most states are improving their financial position. What…...
Monday, May 11, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 11, 2015
ANOTHER OIL TRAIN FIRE A Forum headline Wednesday read “City evacuated.” The article went on to say “The small North Dakota community of Heimdal and surrounding farmsteads were evacuated after…...
Tuesday, May 05, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MAY 5, 2015
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER ND has an unusually high percentage of very old residents. It is not unusual for women to live past 100, for men, less so. Last week,…...
Friday, April 24, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 24, 2015
MOVING UP Income tax information for 2012 recently became available. Eight ND counties were included among the top 100 counties nationally for average adjusted gross incomes. The eight counties were…...
Monday, April 20, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 20, 2015
A REVERSAL Construction managers for the planned $1.85 billion Northern Plains Nitrogen fertilizer plant in Grand Forks have maintained that no nasty man camps would be necessary to house an…...
Monday, April 13, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 12, 2015
TWO DIFFERENT VIEWS ND sweats a time bomb. If oil prices stay low for two more months, the state will lose billions in oil taxes due to a suicidal provision…...
Monday, April 06, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - APRIL 6, 2015
HOW THOUGHTFUL! The always helpful Minneapolis StarTribune urged readers to suggest a replacement for the UND Fighting Sioux nickname. Minnesota readers were ready and eager -- the number of suggestions…...
Friday, March 27, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 27, 2015
FORGET COST “Thoughtful Fargo residents should dismiss braying and pandering from the regular cast of naysayers. The city should spend what it takes to do it right.” -- A Forum…...
Monday, March 23, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 22, 2015
A WILD SWING In December, the governor forecast ND oil tax revenues of $8.3 billion for the 2015-2017 biennium. This week, that estimate was down to $3.4 billion, a drop…...
Monday, March 16, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 15, 2015
ONCE, ND DID NOT LIKE LISTS -- the state was portrayed as a low income backwater. Today, ND revels in lists. To assist in the reveling, the Forum published a…...
Friday, March 06, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 7, 2015
IT PAYS TO HAVE A GOOD ATTORNEY In 2005, Susan Bala was convicted in the largest illegal gambling case in ND history and ordered to serve 27 months in prison.…...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - MARCH 2, 2015
THE BIG GET BIGGER The number of ND farms is slowly declining -- last year the state had 30,300 farms, 500 fewer than 2013. There was churning below the surface…...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 22, 2015
BIG FISH SWALLOW SMALLER FISH Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources was the biggest oil producer in ND. No. 2 producer Whiting Petroleum has purchased Kodiak Oil & Gas and replaced Continental…...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 16, 2015
IS THERE MORE TO THIS STORY? State sales tax exemptions are usually offered to attract new business. The ND Legislature seems to have the concept backwards. They are considering a…...
Monday, February 09, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - FEBRUARY 9, 2015
THE ENVIED 1 PERCENT Are you ready to join the “top 1 percent” of income earners in ND? Here were the admission standards in 2012: You needed an income over…...
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 3, 2015
WHOA, NELLIE! Just a month ago, Gov. Dalrymple used the best information available to prepare a budget for the 2015-17 biennium. Throw that out the window. A revised state revenue…...
Thursday, January 29, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 27, 2015
BOTH ND SENATORS AGREED on one aspect of President Obama’s State of the Union address. Senators Hoeven and Heitkamp considered it ironic that Obama would emphasize oil and gas development,…...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 19, 2015
RECORD BREAKING Amidst the frenzy surrounding the national football championship game between Oregon and Ohio State, it was easy to overlook NDSU’s astounding fourth straight Division I FCS national championship…...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 12, 2015
STATE OF THE STATE “In the end, our growth may be slowed, but it will not stop.” -- Gov. Jack Dalrymple. In his annual message, Dalrymple said despite depressed oil…...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK - TOP TEN NORTH DAKOTA STORIES OF 2014
TOO GOOD TO LAST Looking back, 2014 may have been a high-water year for North Dakota. All the stars were aligned. The Federal Reserve said the state was experiencing…...
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - JANUARY 6, 2014
FARGO’S BIG YEAR “But perhaps the most interesting aspect of business in the Fargo-Moorhead area in 2014 was the sheer amount of it.” -- The Forum reported building permits…...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 29, 2014
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ON THE LINE Last year the NDSU football team romped to a third national championship in the Football Championship Subdivision. This year two playoff games were nail-biters, as…...
Monday, December 22, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 20, 2014
A NAKED BET Harold Hamm has far more invested in ND than any other individual. He is the CEO and 68 percent owner of Continental Resources, the biggest oil producer…...
Monday, December 15, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 15, 2014
AMAZING GROWTH The ND Tax Department released data about the growth of incomes in the state from 2006 (the start of the oil boom) to 2013. Here are highlights: …...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - DECEMBER 9, 2014
THE ONLOOKER is the name of a new weekly political column inaugurated this week in Forum papers. The column is written by Mike Jacobs, retired editor and publisher of…...
Monday, November 24, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - NOVEMBER 24, 2014
THE LEGACY FUND is the result of a 2010 amendment to the ND constitution which sets aside 30 percent of revenue from oil and gas production. The fund’s current balance…...
Friday, November 14, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - NOVEMBER 14, 2014
WHAT’S REALLY WRONG? The publisher of the GF Herald is a recent transplant from the Forum paper in Mitchell, SD. Korrie Wenzel noted the lopsided nature of a ND Legislature…...
Monday, November 10, 2014
SCHMID: LOOKING BACK FROM THE LEFT COAST - NOVEMBER 10, 2014
IT'S EASY TO SUM UP THE ND ELECTIONS -- nothing significant changed. Republicans swept all state offices and 7 of 8 state measures were defeated. I was mildly surprised by…...
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