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by Linda Thistle
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DIFFICULTY THIS WEEK:
Moderate 00 Challenging
HOD BOY
N. D. Matters
By Lloyd Omdahl
2018 King Features Synd Inc.
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Goehring pleased with law's
provisions for agriculture
BISMARCK - President Donald commodities.
Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spend- An extension to the Pesticide
ing package on March 23, which will Registration Improvement Act
fund the government through Sept. through September 30, which creates
30 and includes provisions to ad- a more predictable and effective
dress recent agricultural issues, evaluation scheme for pesticide de-
"The spending package includes cisions.
several wins for agriculture," Agri- State mediation grants of $3.9
culture Commissioner Doug million.
Goehring said. "It provides farmers A fix to the Section 199A tax
and ranchers with some relief from provision, which equalizes tax treat-
burdensome regulations, creates a ment for cooperatives and independ-
fix for other issues and includes ent companies.
funding for beneficial programs." A fiscal year 2018 pilot program
The omnibus provisions in- for the 2017 crop year for county-
cluded: level Agriculture Risk Coverage
An exemption for agricultural (ARC) payments that will allow
operations from reporting animal state Farm Service Agency offices to
waste emissions under the Compre- provide agricultural producers a sup-
hensive Environmental Response, plemental payment based on an al-
Compensation and Liability Act ternate calculation method when
(CERCLA). National Agriculture Statistics Serv-
An extension to the Electronic ice data is insufficient.
Logging Device (ELD) waiver for "I thank our congressional dele-
livestock and insect haulers through gation for their assistance in getting
September" 30, which gives the in- these important provisions passed,"
dustry more time to work on solu- Goehring said. "The language ad-
tions. The June 18 date is still in dresses many of the priorities we've
effect for haulers of other agriculture been working on."
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NDSU
nsion director
announces retirement
Chris Boerboom, North Dakota position at NDSU as ANR program
State University Extension Service leader, I was drawn to the NDSU Ex-
director since 2012, has announced tension Service because it has a gen-
his retirement effective July 2. uine purpose of serving all the people
Boerboom joined NDSU Exten- of the state through a county-based,
sion in January 2010 as assistant di- specialist-supported system," Boer-
rector for agriculture and natural boom said. "In applying for the direc-
resources (ANR) and district director tor position, I stated that I believed in
for five southeastern North Dakota Extension. I continue to believe that
counties. He served as interim Ex- NDSU Extension is serving North
tension director for 4 1/2 months be- Dakota extremely well and will con-
fore being named director in May tinue to serve North Dakotans even
2012. better in the future. I know the suc-
An internal search will begin soon cess of Extension is safeguarded be-
to find an interim director and a na- cause of the dedication, passion and
tional search will be carried out next expertise of all the staff. Lisa and I
year for a permanent director, look forward to moving closer to and
"When I applied for my original spending more time with our family."
DICKINSON - The week of Items in the digital library include
March 5 was an important one for the correspondence to and from RoD-
Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dick- sevelt, diary entries, notes, political
inson State University as it published cartoons, scrapbooks, newspaper
its 50,000th digital item. And that columns and magazine articles by
number continues to climb every day. and about Roosevelt, speeches and
In recognition of this accomplish- photographs. Users can also view
ment, the campus and community at- film clips and listen to audio record-
tended a celebratory reception hosted ings.
by Dickinson State University and According to Pamla Kukla, office
the Theodore Roosevelt Center on and outreach coordinator for the TR
April" 4 in Stoxen Library at DSU. Center, the additions that helped the
North Dakota Gov. Doug Bur- digitallibrary reach 50,000 included
gum, who was visiting with the cam- a letter to Vice President Roosevelt
pus administration and the faculty, concerning a man using Army and
staff and student senates at Dickin- 'Secret Service documents to acquire
son State earlier in the day, was to be room and board and then not paying,
present for a portion of the event be- a letter from President Roosevelt be-
fore he tours downtown Dickinson fore an upcoming election in which
and its Renaissance Zone as part of he refers to a political rival's letter as
his Main Street Initiative later in the a "Mr. Facing-both-ways perform-
afternoon, ance," and a letter from someone
The Theodore Roosevelt Center who is working to see that Roosevelt
was launched in 2009 with the goal receives the Medal of Honor for his
of creating a digital presidential li- service with the Rough Riders.
brary. Because a wide variety of The collection housed in the dig-
Roosevelt collections are located ital library is helping to fulfil the TR
across the country, the TR Center is Center's mission to "facilitate re-
endeavoring to create an all-encom- search for scholars, students, RoD-
passing digital collection so that all sevelt enthusiasts and the public." Its
the material connected to TR can be 50,000-plus item inventory makes
found in one place allowing every- for a comprehensive resource and a
one to have access to all the collec- wide variety of interested parties are
tions regardless of their physical taking advantage of having access to
location, these materials. Kukla shared that
il
Shown, from left, are TR Center staffers Pamela Pierce, Pamla
Kukla, and Sharon Kilzer. (Courtesy Photo)
the TR Center receives research re- in Disney World. After Dave
quests from authors writing new Chapelle mentioned Roosevelt's din-
books on Roosevelt and his era, un- ner with Booker T. Washington on
dergraduate students working on "Saturday Night Live" in 2016,
term papers, and elementary and Kukla noted, "We received many re-
high school students looking for help quests from news outlets." Most re-
on history projects, cently, Business Insider referenced
In addition to the expected aca- the TR Center as its source for their
demic requests, the TR Center has segment on Roosevelt's Masonic ac-
also served as a resource for the out- tivities. Their Feb. 11,2018, article
door retailer Cabela's, TNT's "The discussed Freemasonry and the 14
Alienist," and The Hall of Presidents U.S. presidents who were members.
may be going uphill against the wind
Looking at the significant shifts
in Republican fortunes in Pennsyl-
vania and Alabama, North Dakota
Democrats feel that it could be
downhill with the wind to their backs
in 2018, something like the Lyndon
Johnson landslide of 1964 when an
impressive number of Democrats
were swept into office.
There were few public opinion
polls in 1964 so partisans in both
parties were caught by surprise when
this phenomenal Democratic
tsunami hit conservative North
Dakota.
In that election, the state not only
re-elected incumbents Sen. Quentin
Burdick, Gov. William Guy and
Public Service Commissioner Bruce
Hagen by significant margins but
added Lt. Gov. Charles Tighe, Treas-
urer Walt Christensen and Insurance
Commissioner Kelly Nygaard.
The legislative races demon-
strated the depth of the change when
Democrats won control of the House
of Representatives by turning over
20 Republican house seats. In facts,
many of the districts filled their leg-
islative tickets with the promise that
there was little chance they would
ever get elected and go to Bismarck.
Even though Democrats had a
senator and the governor, the party
was a mess at the beginning of the
year.
Lacking nominees for several
state offices, the party convention
passed a resolution authorizing the
executive committee to recruit can-
didates and went home.
In the middle of July, the party
headquarters was so poor, according
to one observer, that it didn't even
have enough money for postage to
ask the precinct committeemen to
send emergency help,
It was an election year without
promise until the votes came in. De-
mocrats are now wondering: will
there be any comparison of 2018 to
1964?
Democrats have become embold-
ened this year, considering all of the
turnovers that have been occurring in
offices at all levels, in addition, they
have a few advantages heading into
the fall campaign.
First, the level of enthusiasm and
optimism is higher among Democ- inherent strength.
rats than Republicans, meaning that Second, Republican candidates
Democrats will have a better turnout will have more money for their cam-
than usual, paign. Even though Heitkamp has a
Second, without explaining the bigger campaign chest at present,
reasons, the party opposite that of Cramer has been promised unlimited
the incumbent president gains polk- support from Washington.
ical victories in the off-presidential Third, Republican state candi-
years, dates have the benefit of incum-
Third, the Democratic convention bency. North Dakota does not throw
nominated a formidable slate of state incumbents out of office without
candidate to run with incumbent good cause.
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. Heitkamp is Fourth, in 1964 the entire House
leading Kevin Cramer in the early of Representatives had 2-year terms.
polling. With the 4-year terms, only half as
Fourth, the chaos in Washington many house candidates are running
is already shaping the mood for so Democrats have fewer opportuni-
change. A number of political scien- ties to turn seats over.
tists contend that elections are often :~ Fifth, Re.publ'[cans. ~art ~oalesce
determined months before the voting and bury their internal, grievances
by the mood that has been estab- during the campaign season. On the
lished over time. The election could other hand, Democratic dissidents
already be over. can't quite shake their differences.
Fifth, the president is offending So will North Dakota see any-
North Dakota moral values, thing like a political tsunami in
All of this being said, 2018 will 2018? Mike Jacobs, a very insight-
not necessarily be roses for Democ- ful observer of North Dakota affairs,
rats. Republicans have some major says that the North Dakota political
offsetting advantages, climate is unsettled. So keep a surf-
First, North Dakota has become board handy just in case.
more conservative since 1964 so Re-
publicans have a large reservoir of
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Council member resigns after election violation
By Neal A. Shipman Hatter was accused of violating
Farmer Editor the state's campaign laws when he
ALEXANDER - Jerry Hatter has hung a sign on a city fire truck during
resigned from his seat on theAlexan- Alexar~der's Old Settlers' Day Pa-
der City Council as part of a pretrial rade on Sept. 2, 2017. At the time
diversion agreement with the Hatter, who had previously served as
McKenzie County State's Attorney's Alexander mayor was running for a
Office. His resignation letter was seat on the council.
submitted to the City Council during During an Oct 2, 2017 investiga-
its March 17 meeting, tion, Charissa Remus of the North
According to Chaz Neff, McKen- Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investi-
zie County state's attorney, part of gation was informed by Lance Pow-
the pretrial diversion agreement was ell, Alexander fire chief, that Hatter
that Hatter maintain his plea of not had talked to him prior to the parade
guilty, about hanging the sign on the lire
Under terms of the agreement, truck.
Hatter's prosecution would be sus- Powell did not agree wi;h Hatter
pended until June 12,2018, on the doing so because he knew they were
condition that he resign his office as not supposed to as the fire truck is
Alexander City councilman by paid for by the taxpayers, and he ex-
March 9, 2018. At the conclusion of pressed the same to Hatter.
the pretrial diversion period, the case Powell state that Hatter hung the
would be dismissed, sign, which consisted of a bed sheet
with "Vote for Hatter" and the elec-
tion date, anyway.
In Alexander's Sept. 20, 2017
special election to fill the seat va-
cated by Richard Modine, Hatter nar-
rowly defeated Bob Perry by two
votes. Hatter was to serve in that seat
until the 2020 election.
(Reprinted with permission of the
McKenzie County Farmer, Warford
City.)
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