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Legislature Attends to Business
Infrastructure, Taxation Top Session’s Economic Agenda By CHRISTOPHER BJORKE Money is always a factor in the Legislature. For the 2011 session, the state’s healthy reserves, along with infrastructure needs, will drive much of its economic agenda, but lawmakers are also considering other bills that would affect how businesses operate. Bills that emerged early in the [...]
Developing global business is innovation in itself
With growing world demand for traceable foods, Bob Sinner, John Buchholz and a handful of other area farmers understood they could earn a premium price by producing crops that can be traced from the field to consumers’ plates. They took on the added risks of having to develop their own markets and produce crops that [...]
State commerce asks for more than $25 million
Programs like Operation Intern, marketing money for the state tourism division and the state trade office were dependent on Senate Bill 2018, which was the North Dakota Department of Commerce budget bill this legislative session. “From an economic development standpoint the commerce department budget is a very important one because it helps us create jobs,” [...]
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