A BIG LEAP IN BUILDING FOR GRAND FORKS and two months to go.
On Monday I am going to go back to the Engineering and Inspections Department at the Grand Forks city hall and see if I can find out for certain, but as of right now any records I have and any that I...
View Article2013-15 ND BIENNIAL BUDGET DATA
Every two years we send a few of our friends and neighbors to Bismarck to figure out how to run the state for the next two years. We are not too happy if they misjudge the amount of money the state...
View ArticleMINNESOTA EXPORT SALES 1ST QUARTER 2013
Minnesota export sales of all products including agriculture was called flat growth in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period last year. That is a way to say that sales increased ever so...
View ArticleTHE CULTURE OF THE ECONOMY
As for me, there is nothing that affects the soul like standing in a field of wheat watching a combine disappear into a cloud of dust against the deep red glow of the setting sun. When someone asked...
View ArticleAIRLINE BOARDING IN NORTH DAKOTA – OCTOBER 2013 & YTD 2013
A slowdown in the North Dakota economy. Not if the number of airline boardings are any basis for judging. There are some negatives, but maybe an accurate analysis explains it. For example, Minot, the...
View ArticleRANKING NUMBER 10 IS A DISAPPOINTMENT
The November 2013 sales tax receipts ranks number 10 of all the monthly receipts. That should be considered pretty good but the past year and more has been so good that ranking number 10 means Grand...
View ArticleND’s FISCAL SITUATION CONTINUES TO BE THE ENVY OF THE WORLD
What more can you say. You can not look at a situation like this without thinking that. The envy. There is no other way to describe it. There is nothing else that can be said except that. And it just...
View ArticleEMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS
Good times in the northern plains. That certainly is the way it appears with the employment reports for the states. Of course North Dakota continues to look tremendous and it is. People mainly say it...
View ArticleNORTH DAKOTA NOVEMBER CROP PRICES
There is nothing dramatic or surprising here. Nearly everything is down slightly, but really not beyond what most crop experts were calling for and not so much as to be a disaster except maybe for...
View ArticleGIVING THANKS FOR THE NORTHERN PLAINS
Readers Please Note: There is also a new posting on ag prices immediately below this posting. GIVING THANKS FOR THE NORTHERN PLAINS As for me, there is nothing that affects the soul like standing in a...
View ArticleMETRO GRAND FORKS BUILDING PERMITS-NOVEMBER 2013 AND YTD.
Grand Forks permits totaled nearly $18 1/2 million dollars for November. That would be unbelievable if we didn’t know how large all of 2013 has been. The total to date is nearly $209 million dollars so...
View ArticleNEW POSTING
I don’t know if it will get corrected, but for those of you who signed up to receive notification when new posts are made, well, they sent you an email but they said there was no new RSS. In fact there...
View ArticleNORTH DAKOTA AND MINNESOTA BORDER CROSSINGS-OCTOBER 2013
Now something new for my on-line readers. This was one of the most popular reports when my work was published in the paper. That was because Canadian shopping made a big difference to the sales tax...
View ArticleTHE WORLD’S BREAD BASKET— NOT THE BUFFALO COMMONS
I called this blog the northern plains because my first choice was already taken. I wanted to call them The Great Plains because that is what they are. A couple of eastern urbanites want to call this...
View ArticleNORTH DAKOTA CITY SALES TAX AND RELATED REVENUE
I don’t know who should get the credit for it. Maybe there are different groups who have made it happen this year, but from the experience I have I think a great deal of the credit has to go to the...
View ArticleND ENERGY REPORT
This is simply a report on what Lynn Helms has just reported. Before I make some comments about the report I want to say that North Dakota is fortunate to have some very fine professional people in our...
View Article2 NEW REPORTS
I am still new enough at this that I am not sure how this works, but I have two new postings here tonight. They are the latest report on the oil patch/energy development in ND. Also, the MONTHLY REPORT...
View ArticleRANKING NUMBER 10 IS A DISAPPOINTMENT
The November 2013 sales tax receipts ranks number 10 of all the monthly receipts. That should be considered pretty good but the past year and more has been so good that ranking number 10 means Grand...
View ArticleANNUAL BORDER CROSSINGS – 2013
Just last week I posted the October border crossings report and now I have the annual report. Usually they would not be so close together but a couple of things happened this year to make this occur....
View ArticleWHAT DETERMINES THE AMOUNT OF CONSTRUCTION?
Getting started this late in the year I haven’t had time to look at comparisons across all the northern plains, nor even just North Dakota on much of the statistical data. In the past one of those...
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