Petition for ballot measure on lawmaker salaries, public records withdrawn

A petition to increase transparency in North Dakota’s Legislature has been withdrawn just days after it was filed. The measure aimed to make all lawmaker communications on legislative business public, require conflict-of-interest disclosures, and delay salary increases until the next term. It also proposed banning lawmakers from lobbying for four years after leaving office and

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Opinion: Down With Initiated Measures, Because All American Policymaking Should Be Subject to Checks and Balances

Rob Port makes the argument that no form of law making should be without some type of check and balance, and maybe our statewide initiated measure process is in need of some revision.

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