Port: The disaster we're giving farmers relief from is the federal government

Port: The disaster we're giving farmers relief from is the federal government

MINOT — One of the most confounding realities of modern politics is the amount of time our political leaders — at the federal level, in particular — spend implementing bad policy and then spending taxpayer dollars and resources on trying to mitigate the fallout from that bad policy. That's a point John Bitzan, director of the Challey Institute at North Dakota State University, makes poignantly in a column in the Bismarck Tribune. "Nearly 600 Nor…