Byron Dorgan

U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates in N.D. today

Journal Staff Report Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan and Congressman Earl Pomeroy return home to North Dakota on Monday, December 1, for meetings at Minot Air Force Base with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Air Force...

Indian health bill appears dead

Associated Press - November 30, 2008 4:24 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is expected to adjourn in December without sending a wide-ranging Indian health bill to President Bush. That leaves American Indian leaders, and Senate...

The Senate Democratic Races of 2010

Citizens, your role in the 2008 elections is done. Electoral College delegates will go through the motions, and judges will administer the Oath of Office for new public officials, but you have no more choice in the matter. Your...

Watchdog on Iraq funds aims to keep post

The office of Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq Reconstruction, is set to close after the remaining amount of Iraq reconstruction money falls below $250 million. WASHINGTON — As U.S. spending in Iraq winds down...

Peak Oil?? 3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels found in North Dakota and Montana

3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation *25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate—* Released: 4/10/2008 2:25:36 PM Contact Information: U.S. Department of the...

Riding The Roller Coaster Of Prices, Costs, And Profitability

Rising costs of grain production and falling commodity prices are old headlines. By the year 2010, in the more productive Red River Valley the North Dakota State University economists are calculating a non-land production cost...

Bill Richardson, GM, Citibank: Where is the Bail-Out Debate on Offshoring Middle Class Jobs...

A bit more than a decade ago, I received a briefing at Sandia National Weapons Laboratories on a few of their private-public partnerships, or CRADAs (Cooperative Research and Development Agreements). Intel had a CRADA with...

Eric Holder Supports Internet Censorship

I wanted to post an article about the things that -- in my arrogant opinion -- Mr. Obama is doing ''right'' (he's not officially the ''President-elect'' yet, is he? What is his correct title? I just hate ''Mister''.) But that...

Clinton set to become secretary of state

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at a campaign event this summer in New Hampshire. (Elise Amendola/The Associated Press) Clinton set to become secretary of state : Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to give up her Senate seat...

Clinton could have enhanced role in Senate

Online teens are learning skills, not wasting time U.S. report predicts decline for Al Qaeda The uncertainty, a week after Obama met with Clinton to discuss the idea of her leading the State Department, kept Washington spinning...

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