North Dakota's GOP governor vetoes library restrictions, school voucher program

North Dakota’s GOP governor vetoes library restrictions, school voucher program

The Legislature can override the governor’s veto by a two-thirds vote in each chamber. Neither bill garnered two-thirds support on their paths to the governor’s desk.

North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong vetoes controversial library bill

BISMARCK — North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong has vetoed a highly contested bill that asked public libraries, including those in schools, to hide certain books from areas accessible to minors. “In today’s world of social media, streaming services, websites, cable TV and movies where profanity, drug use, violence and nudity are harder to avoid than to find, the amount of time, money and taxpayer resources spent on where a book is placed in a libra…

North Dakota's GOP governor vetoes library restrictions, school voucher program

North Dakota's Republican governor has vetoed bills to further restrict sexual content in libraries and to create a private school voucher program.

Letter: Urging the governor to veto HB 1540, for the sake of public school students

To the editor, School has always been my safe place. That’s one of the reasons I became a kindergarten teacher. And I believe HB 1540, which would send public dollars to private schools, would jeopardize our public schools. That’s why I’m writing to urge the governor to veto HB 1540. When I was a teenager, my dad unexpectedly became a single father. He did his best and took good care of me. However, he was busy and had struggles of his own. Ther…