- North Dakota seeks FTC determination on privacy law
Gary Preszler, the commissioner for the North Dakota Department of Banking and Financial Institutions, is seeking a ruling from the Federal Trade Commission on whether the state's privacy law takes precedence over privacy provisions in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. State regulators around the country are watching for the determination, as North ......
- North Dakota
HEADNOTE With some of the best small metro-areas in the nation to do business, North Dakota is experiencing a dramatic increase in employment and productivity. THE PEACE GARDEN State's dynamic industries include business services, industrial and commercial machinery and computer equipment, manufacturing, general building contractors, and amusement and recreation services....
- Federal, State Officials Consider Biodiesel Issues for
ND.
Local North Dakota newspaper the Wahpeton Daily News recently reported that U.S. Representative Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) expressed his commitment late last month to working with North Dakota state legislators in bringing down the cost of biodiesel fuel blends. "We've got the means to make our economy stronger by manufacturing biodiesel, ......
- North Dakota gets Innovations award.
Bismarck, N.D. -- The Midwestern Legislative Conference of the Council of State Governments honored North Dakota's Parental Responsibility Initiative for the Development of Employment program with the 2007 Innovations award, which recognizes new, creative and successful state programs that are transferable to other states. The PRIDE program involves the Department ......
- Forecast 2005
Similar to the recent presidential election race, the volume of 2004 construction contract awards in the states of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota are expected to finish nearly dead even with totals reached in the previous year. For the first 11 months of this year, construction contract awards in ......
- state interim activities focus on health insurance access and cost
HEADNOTE The activities of state legislatures between sessions are strong indicators of the issues state policymakers will consider during the regular legislative session. Five states-Arkansas, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, and Texas-have pursued significant interim activities that have important implications with respect to health insurance access and costs. Each of these ......
- North Dakota
The state offers plenty of locations for the filmmaker who is an outdoorsman at heart: Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the Petrified Forest, Pembina Gorge, Devils Lake and the Fall on Lake Sakakawea. The state's rolling fields of sunflowers, wheat, corn and other crops provide waves of color for scenic shots....