Dale Wetzel

• Group pushes North Dakota to resist health reform

  By Dale Wetzel  |  July 24, 2012

  North Dakota lawmakers and Gov. Jack Dalrymple should continue their opposition to establishing a state-run, online marketplace for insurance that's required by the new federal health care law, representatives of a group of conservative organizations said Monday.

• North Dakota oil tax 'Legacy Fund' has meager earnings

  By Dale Wetzel  |  May 18, 2012

  The new trust fund, overseen by the state's Retirement and Investment Office, uses a conservative investment philosophy that excludes stocks.

• Lawmakers seek jobless benefit for sugar workers

  By Dale Wetzel  |  November 15, 2011

  Democratic state lawmakers plan to ask North Dakota's unemployment agency to reconsider its refusal to pay jobless benefits to about 400 American Crystal Sugar Co. employees.

• New ND health exchange means more money, workers

  By Dale Wetzel  |  October 21, 2011

  Proposed health insurance changes required by the federal government may provide North Dakotans more benefit options, but the package's $83 million price tag will make it a difficult sell, lawmakers predicted Thursday.