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A Tale Of Two Couples
(Crossposted with permission from The Prairie Blog. (http://theprairieblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/tale-of-two-coup headline across the top of the front page of the Bismarck Tribune this morning reads “Legislator arrested again for domestic assault.” It was above the story about Bismarck Representative David Weiler being charged with assaulting his wife for the second ti...
NorthDecoder.com - Sat 11:43 a.m. - 3 clicks 
Hoeven Adopts "One Free Beating" Rule For Legislators
When North Dakota Governor John Hoeven (R) learned, today, that Representative David Weiler (R-Bismarck) had been charged with assaulting his (Weiler's) wife -- an employee in Hoeven's office -- for the second time in one year, Hoeven drew the line in the sand.Nicole Weiler is an aide in Gov. John Hoeven’s office. Hoeven believes if David Weiler is convicted of the second assault cha...
NorthDecoder.com - Fri 11:41 p.m. - 5 clicks
David Weiler Arrested For Assault Again
UPDATED at the bottom of this post... Developing...Representative Dave Weiler (R-Bismarck) is in jail this morning (http://www.kfgo.com/KFGO_Top_Story_News_Headlines.php?ID=00 Again.Weiler was arrested about a year ago (index.php/Bismarck-Legislator-Dave-Weiler-Arrested.html), after assaulting his wife. He entered a guilty plea (index.php/Why-is-Dave-Weiler-Still-a-Legislator.html) a...
NorthDecoder.com - Fri 9:48 a.m. - 2 clicks
Lieutenant Governor's Moonlighting Gig
Yesterday's big North Dakota news -- so big it made page 3B of today's Bismarck Tribune -- is that Dakota Grower's Pasta Company is being sold to a Canadian company for $240 million. Viterra Inc. is offering to buy Dakota Growers Pasta Co. for $240 million, which would put the Canadian food processing and grain handling company into the pasta business.Viterra's board of directors e...
NorthDecoder.com - Thu 10:08 a.m. - 4 clicks
The Blog Post That Wrote Itself
[UPDATED X 2] I'm not going to write this blog post. It's not that I'm too lazy or that I don't understand it. I'm just not going to write it. The commenters should write this blog post.I will tell you just a little about what this is: This is a single page from the working papers of the audit that was done of the North Dakota Department of Commerce by the State Auditor'...
NorthDecoder.com - Tue 12:29 p.m. - 8 clicks
"Very angry" Pomeroy confronts House Dems on health care reform
In its feature story this morning, 'Very angry' Democrat sounds alarm, the website Politico is reporting that a "very angry" Rep. ...
Common Sense Has A Voice - Jan 15 - 2 clicks
