As Democrats try to hold the Senate through defending red states, a look at the rise and fall of split Senate outcomes in presidential years.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE This is the second part of our history of presidential-Senate split-ticket results, from World War II to now. This part covers the mid-1980s to present, a timeframe that started with many instances of split results and ended with hardly any at all. In 1984 and 1988, amidst large GOP victories at the presidential level, more than a dozen Republican-won states sent Democrats to the Senate both years. The 1990s, when Democrats were successful at the presidential level, split-ticket voting tended to benefit Republicans in the Senate, making the decade an exception in the postwar era. In the 2000s, Democrats were back to benefitting from the split-ticket dynamic, first under a Republican president, George W. Bush, then with a Democrat, Barack Obama. Montana, a state which Senate Democrats are defending this year in
It’s not often a major motion picture set in North Dakota or filmed here, let alone stare Hollywood royalty. On this date in 2000, the Bismarck Tribune reported on the excitement that descended on Medora as the town hosted 150 cast and crew members for the filming of Wooly Boys. It starred Peter Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, and Joseph Mazzello and followed the story of a Badlands sheep rancher and his grandson.
Ruling goes against a complaint made last year by the Grand Forks Herald. 5:09 pm, Apr. 19, 2021 ×
North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem
North Dakota’s attorney general has found that Grand Forks City Hall officials did not violate the state’s open meeting laws when they met quietly last summer to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the Grand Forks Herald’s assertion to the contrary.
The newspaper in September complained to Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, claiming that the meetings were of a committee of a public entity as defined in North Dakota Century Code. The city claimed they were not public, and Stenehjem ultimately sided with the city.