A North Dakota House committee gave its approval to a stipulation that would make clear that an exemption from a formal bidding process doesn't mean the general investment contract is open-ended.
if you run a state investment board in north dakota, maybe you have strong views about this personally, but you have an obligation and your job depends on you beating the market. i don t think there s a lot of patience for this. interesting you mention north dakota. you point out the vote where they were going to have a blacklist for companies that support fossil fuel, it lost in a vote. the senator said you can t stand on principle and freeze to death. part of that is a little procedural. they have a couple other bills similar to that. but they proposed it in a way where they didn t realize it would choke out of funding to banks. very interesting to see where it goes from there. liz hoffman, thanks so much for your reporting. we appreciate it. as we cross the top of the