I knew that North Dakota was the first state in the nation to oust a governor, but I didn’t know that it was tried a second time.  Here is a very interesting bit of North Dakota history from 1934, from Time magazine.

Okay.  Maybe THIS is the place to go for North Dakota fun facts.
I’m sure the tourism department gets hard data for the facts it posts.  Who knew that the parking meter was invented in North Dakota?  Or that we apparently could be behind 216 billion crayons?

This is the site to go if you want to learn some interesting new facts about North Dakota.  I stumbled upon this by accident and really enjoyed some of the fun new trivia I read.
This is such an odd, happy place to live!

Property taxes are an issue in North Dakota.   Bismarck Tribune reporter Brian Duggan takes a look at them in his two-part series. 
From the article:
When lawmakers converged in Bismarck this winter to tinker with tax codes and tax relief, they knew something was going to be different this session — namely the state’s $1.2 billion in [...]