Property taxes, sales taxes, water rates, homeless funding, school district finances, public health funding and Bismarck Event Center operations were some of the myriad financial issues that marked 2023 in
Public schools in the Bismarck-Mandan area are welcoming students this week with new buildings, a new leader in Bismarck, a new logo in Mandan and under new laws passed by
Fargo Public Schools Superintendent Rupak Gandhi said last week that his administration may not follow the new state law in order to keep transgender students safe.
About a dozen of those trans bills were signed into law, including one this week that prohibits K-12 students from using bathrooms different from their sex at birth. The law went into effect Monday, but leaders in the Fargo School District say they won't be enforcing it.