I'm disappointed in the tone of the article being a bunch of party-line rhetoric, but I agree with the sentiment.
It seems like the legislature just woke up one day and decided to ignore the distinction between important and unimportant legislation.
It's this goofball stuff like "one year waiting periods before divorce" and "UND's team names must be known as The Fighting Sioux" and "let's get rid of the state board of higher education and replace it with a board dictated by the current governor" that just blow my mind...aren't there more important things to worry about?
Couldn't we be dealing with the flooding Fargo is going to experience again this year?
Can't we deal with the EPA regulations being ignored in the case of Devil's Lake (and the problem that people are being flooded out there as well)?
Can't we have a solid discussion about higher education funding? (To be fair, wasn't it the governor's budget that was eviscerated by the legislature? Now we have a few percent increase in tuition (instead of a freeze) and lack of money for building projects deemed important by the SBHE (and after all, it's sort of their job to know what's important when it comes to that).)
Can't we deal with the rampant drunk driving in the state, and the multiple auto accident deaths every. single. week. during the summer?
Can't we deal with the population explosion in the western part of the state and how we're letting drilling companies do pretty much what they want because we're getting taxes out of it?