WASHINGTON, March 7 (TNStalk) -- The Competitive Enterprise Institute issued the following coalition joint letter with 29 organizations: * * * Chair Headland, Vice Chair Hagert, and Members of the Committee, The undersigned organizations write in opposition to Senate Bill 2217. This legislation would prohibit interchange fees on the sales tax portion of electronic payment transactions in North Dakota. The government would be interfering in the free market in an attempt to control who bears th  more

WASHINGTON, March 9 (TNSgov) -- The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership posted the following news release: The Department of the Interior has announced it will invest $23 million in landscape-scale conservation and restoration in the Prairie Pothole Region states of Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. This major commitment to wetlands that support more than half of North America's waterfowl is one piece of the department's plan for $120 million in new conservation  more