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Bill Gates Triggers North Dakota Outrage With 2,100-Acre Farmland Buy

This article was originally published on June 24, 2022.

Benzinga

North Dakota farmland purchase tied to Gates stirs emotion

The sale of prime North Dakota farmland to a group tied to Bill Gates has stirred emotions over a Depression-era law meant to protect family farms and raised questions about whether the billionaire shares the state’s values

The Independent UK

Review: 'The Clean Daughter: A Cross-Continental Memoir,' by Jill Kandel

"The Clean Daughter" by Jill Kandel; North Dakota State University Press (341 pages, $32.95)

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ICYMI: Top stories of the week

On Tuesday, statewide primaries took place in four states: Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Carolina. Here are some results highlighted in Thursday’s Brew:

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ND governor targets fellow Republicans to mixed results

North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum’s expensive effort to influence the GOP primary and reshape the Legislature with more people who support his spending and policy goals was a mixed bag

The Independent UK

North Dakota oil production takes a big drop

Back-to-back blizzards in April led to one of the steepest ever monthly declines in North Dakota oil production.

Tribune News Service

Who is Ezra Miller? What you should know about the embattled star of ‘The Flash’

LOS ANGELES — At 29, Ezra Miller has become one of the movie industry’s most sought-after actors, including an upcoming starring role in the 2023 Marvel feature “The Flash.” But Miller also recently was arrested for low-level criminal behavior in Hawaii and accused of grooming and abusing an 18-year-old from…

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Key results from Tuesday’s primaries and special election - Roll Call

Results are in from Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and Texas congressional primaries and a special election.

Roll Call

Hoeven faces primary challenge from political newcomer

North Dakota U.S. Sen. John Hoeven’s quest for a third term in the highly conservative state hasn’t been nearly as smooth as his previous runs, but he’s seen as a shoo-in Tuesday in the Republican primary

The Independent UK

Sixteen Republican governors oppose Biden administration’s executive order regarding taxpayer-funded construction contracts

Sixteen Republican governors wrote a letter to President Biden on April 26, 2022, opposing his executive order to mandate project labor agreements (PLAs) on taxpayer-funded construction contracts exceeding $35 million. The letter was signed by governors from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South…

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As Ezra Miller grooming allegations deepen, court ‘cannot locate or serve’ the actor

LOS ANGELES — The parents of an 18-year-old from North Dakota have obtained a protective order against “The Flash” star Ezra Miller, adding another scandal for the embattled actor to contend with.

Los Angeles Times

See how your state funds public schools

Welcome to the Friday, June 10, Brew.

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CDC links hepatitis A outbreak to organic strawberries: Learn about the virus

Organic strawberries have been linked to a multistate hepatitis A outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a dozen people have been made ill by the strawberries in California, Minnesota and North Dakota.

Tribune News Service

U.S. wheat crop hit by dry winter then soggy spring, adding to global tightness

North Dakota farmer Dwight Grotberg wanted to plant more wheat this spring to capitalize on soaring prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine cut grain exports and left the world short of millions of tonnes of wheat supply.

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This Sugarbeet Cooperative Looks To Overcome Truck Driver Shortage - Read How Kratos Helps

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc (NASDAQ:KTOS) has teamed with the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative (MDFC) to launch self-driving trucks, easing the truck driver shortage burden using Kratos Autonomous Systems. MDFC is a farmer-owned sugarbeet cooperative headquartered in Wahpeton, North Dakota. The collaboration combines Kratos' unmanned system technologies with Minn-Dak's agriculture and transportation expertise.…

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North Dakota has its most contested state legislative primaries since 2014

From 2014 to 2020, the number of state legislative primaries in North Dakota with more than one candidate ranged from four to six. This year, the number of contested primaries rose to 24, a 300% increase from 2020. This represents 18% of all possible primary contests.

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It’s primary day in five states

Welcome to the Tuesday, May 17, Brew.

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North Dakota sees the lowest number of candidates running for the U.S. House since 2016

The filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in North Dakota this year was April 11, 2022. Two candidates are running for North Dakota’s one U.S. House seat, the lowest number since 2016 (when there were also two candidates). Three candidates ran in 2020, and five candidates ran in 2018.

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The Independent UK

North Dakota legislator's home searched after inmate texts

Grand Forks police and federal agents seized video discs and other items from the home of North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator after he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges

Benzinga

Cannabis Regulatory Update: Federal-State Marijuana 'Policy Gap' Widens, Legalization Push In South Carolina, Georgia, North Dakota

Federal-State Marijuana ‘Policy Gap’ Continues To Grow As More States Legalizes Cannabis With more and more states legalizing both medical and recreational cannabis, the gap between federal and state cannabis policies seems to be widening, a new report showed.

The Conversation

Does this dinosaur ‘graveyard’ reveal their final day on Earth? An expert explores the evidence

Buried in the rocks in North Dakota lies evidence of the exact day the dinosaurs were obliterated from the planet, some 66 million years ago. That’s the claim of palaeontologist Robert DePalma and colleagues, whose work was captured by the BBC in its recent landmark documentary Dinosaurs: The Final Day…

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North Dakota group submits signatures for initiative to require a 60% vote requirement and single-subject rule for constitutional amendments

On April 22, the campaign Protect North Dakota’s Constitution reported submitting 33,624 signatures for a ballot initiative to the secretary of state’s office. At least 31,164 of the signatures need to be deemed valid for the initiative to appear on the ballot. The secretary of state has 30 days to…

The Independent UK

North Dakota state senator resigns after text exchanges with man jailed on child porn charges

Embattled lawmaker had already announced impending retirement

The Independent UK

North Dakota lawmaker quits after child porn suspect texts

North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator says he'll resign following a report that he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges

The Independent UK

ND lawmaker quits panel leadership after texts with inmate

North Dakota state Sen. Ray Holmberg has resigned as head of a panel that oversees the Legislature’s business between sessions

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