Port: Controversial Minot lawmaker apparently takes a vacation during closing weeks of the session

Port: Controversial Minot lawmaker apparently takes a vacation during closing weeks of the session

MINOT — The end of North Dakota's 2025 legislative session is just weeks away, which means that elected lawmakers from across the state are in Bismarck engaged in the tediously arduous process of debating and negotiating the final forms of consequential policy and the appropriation of billions of taxpayer dollars. Except for Rep. Lori VanWinkle. She's apparently on vacation. According to legislative journals, VanWinkle has been recorded as absen…