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SENSE AND CENTSIBILITY
Are You Due For a Financial Spring Cleaning? Five Tips for a Fresh Perspective
Most of us tend to get at least a small dose of the blues over the long winter months, and sometimes, your finances can suffer neglect as a result. Symptoms of financial neglect might include: Seve...
Posted on 5/1/13 at 11:41 AM

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REAL MONEY
Nine Steps to Dealing With Medical Debt
A broken bone, mental health therapy, a long-term illness, a car accident, a premature baby. All of these situationsand so many more unexpected onescan land a family in medical debt. And you cant comp...
Posted on 4/16/13 at 9:27 AM

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IN THE BLACK
Why Its Important to Pay more than Minimum Payments
Here is a video showing how long it takes and how much interest you pay when only paying the minimum payments on your credit card debt. In the example in the video, by only paying the minimum payme...
Posted on 3/21/13 at 7:29 PM

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STAFF BLOG THE N.D. CAPITOL AND BEYOND
N.D. lawmakers pitch federal debt proposal
BISMARCK North Dakota lawmakers who want to do their part to help control the nations debt had their first hearing Wednesday. A group of lawmakers wants the Legislature to support an amendment to th...
Posted on 1/19/11 at 6:11 PM

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HEALTHBEAT
The staggering cost of a medical education
Medical students traded the classroom and the anatomy lab last week for the halls of power in Washington, D.C. Their mission: to issue a plea to Congress for help with the crushing fina...
Posted on 3/19/09 at 7:01 AM

Obama: Debt ceiling fight could threaten timely payments of Social Security, veterans' benefits

Declaring “we are not a deadbeat nation,” President Obama warned on Monday that Social Security checks and veterans’ benefits will be delayed if congressional Republicans fail to increase the government's borrowing authority in a looming showdown over the nation's debt and spending.

January 15, 2013

Treasury: Trillion-dollar coin would not be legal

WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget about the government minting a $1 trillion coin to solve its debt-limit crisis.

By Associated Press , January 12, 2013

Bad debt soars in ND oil town

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — Williston officials say the amount of uncollected bills is soaring in the oil boom town city

December 23, 2012

A checklist to see whether debt reduction is real

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and leaders of the lame-duck Congress may be just weeks away from shaking hands on a deal to avert the dreaded "fiscal cliff." So it's natural to wonder: If they announce a bipartisan package promising to curb mushrooming federal deficits, will it be real?

By Alan Fram, Associated Press , November 25, 2012

Senate race ads focus on Medicare, Obamacare, debt

WASHINGTON — For critical Senate races, Republicans are turning to the playbook that served them so well in the 2010 elections.

By By Kevin Freking, Associated Press , October 07, 2012

Lender's own probe links it to suicides

MUMBAI, India (AP) — First they were stripped of their utensils, furniture, mobile phones, televisions, ration cards and heirloom gold jewelry. Then, some of them drank pesticide. One woman threw herself in a pond. Another jumped into a well with her children.

By Erika Kinetz, AP Business Writer , February 24, 2012

A plan for student debt

An Ivy League and Cal-Berkeley policy is worth noting at the University of North Dakota. That’s because the policy is succeeding at its stated task: ratcheting down the number of students who graduate with crushing debt. UND should pay attention, because the university has achieved a dubious honor. It’s listed among the public universities in the country whose graduates carry the highest debt.

By Grand Forks Herald , January 03, 2012

Dakotas lawmakers react to supercommittee failure

Members of Congress from the Dakotas say the failure of a special deficit-reduction supercommittee highlights the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the nation's financial challenges.

November 22, 2011

Debt panel poised to admit failure

WASHINGTON — A special deficit-reduction supercommittee appears likely to admit failure on Monday, unable or unwilling to compromise on a mix of spending cuts and tax increases required to meet its assignment of saving taxpayers at least $1.2 trillion over the coming decade.

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press , November 21, 2011

N.D. state senator seeks federal debt amendment

A North Dakota state senator is getting attention across the country for his work to curb the nation’s rising debt. Sen. Curtis Olafson, R-Edinburg, has been featured on talk shows in Texas and Maryland, mentioned in Forbes and asked to participate in a panel at Harvard through his work with Texas-based RestoringFreedom.Org.

By Teri Finneman , October 18, 2011

South Dakota Rep. Kristi Noem reports thousands in credit card debt

Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., shows between $20,000 and $30,000 in credit card debt on the asset disclosure form she filed this month with the U.S. House of Representatives.

By Denise Ross, Forum Communications Co. , August 30, 2011

Former comptroller says debt reduction is ‘a moral issue’

When talking about the need to solve the nation’s debt problems, former U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker delivers a familiar plea: Do it for the children.

By By Mike Nowatzki, Forum Communications Co. , August 24, 2011

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Pelosi names final members to debt supercommittee

WASHINGTON — The fragile economy and wildly gyrating financial markets could put enormous pressure on Congress’ new debt-reduction supercommittee. Yet even as leaders finished naming the bipartisan panel’s members, it remained uncertain that it will ultimately agree on a savings plan.

By By Alan Fram, The Associated Press , August 12, 2011

Obama signs debt deal

With scant time to spare, President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday to avoid an unprecedented national default that he said would have devastated the U.S. economy. But the truce with Republicans that defused the crisis seemed to be fading already.

By By David Espo, The Associated Press , August 03, 2011

Obama signs debt bill after final Senate vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate emphatically passed emergency legislation Tuesday to avoid a first-ever government default, rushing the legislation to President Barack Obama for his signature just hours before the deadline. The vote was 74-26.

By Andrew Traylor, Associated Press , August 02, 2011

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