Is this the beginning of the end for property taxes? One state could change the game…
As sugar beet harvesting season comes and goes in the Red River Valley, Mark Froemke, president of the West Minnesota Area Labor Council/Red River Valley, AFL-CIO, reflects on worker power in the region.
Acclaimed Native American novelist Erdrich's fifteenth novel is a "multigenerational tale," writes reviewer Round, that "stretches across two centuries of life on the Northern Plains."
Despite North Dakota's collapsing oil market, its state-owned bank continues to report record profits. Farmers were losing their farms to Wall Street bankers. They organized, won an election and passed legislation to create a public bank. The Nonpartisan League's rise to power was fast and had a lasting impact on North Dakota. This article looks at what California, with fifty times North Dakota's population, could do following that state's lead.
We can wrest back control of our economy, and finally our political system, from corporate speculators only by building local movements that decentralize economic power through the creation of hundreds of publicly owned state, county and city banks.
Nobody wants there to be trouble, “but sometimes something has to be stirred up and this is something that needs immediate attention.”: Lillian Jones of Fargo
North Dakota's thriving state bank makes a mockery of Wall Street's casino banking system -- and that's why financial elites want to crush it.
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