North Dakota cities growing

By The Associated Press, The Bismarck Tribune

North Dakota's major cities are growing, as are the communities around them.
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Smoke-free advocates urge N.D. statewide ban

By Helmut Schmidt, Grand Forks Herald

Area health professionals and smoking ban advocates celebrated a full year of clear air in Fargo and West Fargo bars and restaurants by urging a statewide smoking ban.
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Stimulus eases community college troubles

By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org

States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system. Read More

Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds

By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer

States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes. Read More

N.D.'s top horse racing regulator quits

By The Associated Press, The Bismarck Tribune

North Dakota's top horse racing regulator has resigned. Read More

Former Guard soldier gets second Purple Heart

By The Associated Press, The Bismarck Tribune

A former North Dakota National Guard soldier wounded in Iraq has received his second Purple Heart. Read More

Cattle losses amid floods, snow could hit $30 million

By James MacPherson, The Associated Press, The Bismarck Tribune

North Dakota ranchers suffered an estimated $30 million loss when cattle died amid spring flooding and late-winter blizzards, a state agriculture official said Wednesday. Read More

Survey -- N.D. lacks 'brain smarts'

By Chuck Haga, Grand Forks Herald

As if the challenge of reforming the nation's health care system isn't vexing enough, here's another brain twister for Sen. Kent Conrad to ponder when the North Dakota Democrat meets in Grand Forks today with doctors, nurses, hospital and clinic administrators and patient advocates: Read More

Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes

By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor

More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes. Read More

Mississippi tops obesity rankings; Colorado is leanest state

By The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- Mississippi remains at the top of the list in this year's national annual obesity rankings, with Alabama coming in second. Outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news. Read More

Gov. John Hoeven (R)
Elected: November 2000, 2004, 2008
Term expires: January 2013

	State capital: Bismarck
	State nickname: The Peace Garden State
	Lt. Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R)
	Secretary of State Alvin Jaeger (R)
	Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (R)
	Senate President: Lt. Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R)
	Senate Pro Tempore: Tom Fischer (R)
	House Speaker: David Monson (R)

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