NORTH DAKOTA

A new funding formula proposed by Dalrymple and the Legislature’s 2012 Interim Education Committee would easily break down how funding is allocated to universities and provide equitable and fair funding for each of the university’s 11 campuses, according to those championing the bill.

Now is the time, while the economy is good, to focus on creating the finest future workforce, making sure we participate in the world economy and that we are on the cutting edge of new technologies and the yet-to-be-thought-of industries.

Over the past six years, North Dakota has shot from the middle of the pack to become the state with the third-highest ratio of single young men to single young women in the country.

Frontier Airlines will return to Fargo on Nov. 16 with nonstop flights from North Dakota’s largest city to Denver

"Everyone in North Dakota is concerned about getting overextended and having some kind of a–even if it is not a bust–just a slowdown in the oil production," Gov. Jack Dalrymple said in an interview.

North Dakota is already ranked as the best run state in the nation, and has the lowest unemployment rate. Now comes word that the state also leads the nation in personal income growth.

Businesses struggle to attract workers throughout North Dakota, which has some 22,000 more jobs than takers and the lowest unemployment rate in the nation, at 2.4 percent, Job Service North Dakota data show. The unemployment rate in Minot is 2.3 percent.

They’re Good Challenges to Have: Meeting the Needs of North Dakota’s Economic and Population Boom

The amendment approved Tuesday guarantees the right of farmers to engage in "modern" agriculture and bars any law limiting their right "to employ agricultural technology, modern livestock production and ranching practices."

North Dakota is ranked as number two in the country for national entrepreneurship. The ranking is based on total employer establishments and business income, which the state ranked in the top five for both.