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Podcast: Plain Talk
Episode: 676: The Wonder Fund, the Hostfest, the F5 Project, and ICE's drawdown in Minnesota
Description: We covered a lot of ground on this episode of Plain Talk. There's reason to believe that North Dakota's Wonder Fund may not be performing all that well, and may not be investing in the sort of North Dakota-centric projects it was intended to. Is it time to audit the program? In Fargo, there's a controversy over a housing development that got property tax breaks on the assumption that it would increase property value, and thus tax revenues, in the future. But then the property was sold to a nonprofit that won't pay property taxes. I...