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BISMARCK– North Dakota is funding infrastructure, education and other priorities, putting the Legacy Fund to work for current and future generations, and maintaining healthy reserves without raising taxes, Gov. Doug Burgum said today after the 67th Legislative Assembly adjourned its regular session sine die.
“This session delivered results that keep North Dakota on the path toward a bright and prosperous future,” Burgum said. “Working with the Legislature, we’ve delivered a balanced budget that keeps general fund spending in check, makes strategic investments in education, the economy and tax relief, and contains the largest infrastructure bonding package in state history – paid for with Legacy Fund earnings and not one extra dollar from taxpayers’ pockets.”
Burgum: Session keeps general fund spending in check, invests in infrastructure without raising taxes and puts Legacy Fund to work for North Dakotans
BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota is funding infrastructure, education and other priorities, putting the Legacy Fund to work for current and future generations, and maintaining healthy reserves without raising taxes, Gov. Doug Burgum said today after the 67
th Legislative Assembly adjourned its regular session
sine die.
“This session delivered results that keep North Dakota on the path toward a bright and prosperous future,” Burgum said. “Working with the Legislature, we’ve delivered a balanced budget that keeps general fund spending in check, makes strategic investments in education, the economy and tax relief, and contains the largest infrastructure bonding package in state history – paid for with Legacy Fund earnings and not one extra dollar from taxpayers’ pockets.”
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Allie Kaiser, student at Bismarck State College, sits behind a microphone at the school s Mystic Media studio. Colleges and universities in the upper Midwest say businesses want their new hires to be effective communicators.
Image: Courtesy of Bismarck State College
When karen Bauer – who spells her first name with a lowercase “k” – started at Bismarck State College, the school’s communication department had only a newspaper and literary magazine. Now it has a digital studio and a larger focus on the many tools that make up today’s world of mass communication.
Bauer, the school’s assistant professor of journalism and the executive director of the North Dakota Student Media Association, said communication has not only affected her life and career but is a skill from which people in all professions may benefit.
North Dakota bonding bill includes dollars for potential UND space command initiative
House Bill 1431, which includes nearly $800 million for infrastructure projects, had its first hearing on Monday, Feb. 1. Included in that new bill is $4 million dollars for UND for a space command initiative and related technical programs, which would include money for equipment, renovation and a sensitive compartmental information facility, according to the bill. 12:12 pm, Feb. 2, 2021 ×
UND President Andrew Armacost speaks to the Herald during an editorial board meeting in February 2020, a few months prior to the start of his presidency. Eric Hylden / Grand Forks Herald
North Dakota’s bonding bill is months away from being finalized, but the current legislation gives millions of dollars to career and technical education and other higher-ed related projects, including dollars for UND’s space-related work.
KVRR Local News
February 1, 2021
FM Diversion
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/KCND) – The FM Diversion Project would receive $435.5 million from a Republican-sponsored bonding bill in the North Dakota legislature.
“I know it’ll take a few years to get that done, but if we get that off the table, then we can start looking bigger” House Majority Leader Chet Pollert said.
The $800 million bill also contains money for building projects, including an ag products development center at NDSU and the Pulver Hall project at Dickinson State University.
“FM is such a big project. It’s kind of holding us back. I, myself, am kind of tired of doing a little bit and there. Let’s get FM Diversion out of the way and start working on these other projects.”