AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoFood Retail: North Dakota joined three states in restricting SNAP purchases of select drinks and snacks, adding new rules for benefit users and retailers. Aerospace: Grand Forks drone companies met with the FCC chair and Sen. Kevin Cramer to discuss regulations and ways to speed domestic drone development. Hospitality: A new investor group is pursuing the Canad Inns destination center in Grand Forks, with plans for hotel upgrades and a reopened restaurant. Business Services: Fargo-based Eide Bailly is expanding in Texas by adding Fort Worth accounting firm JTaylor, building on its recent private-equity investment. Agriculture: A locally developed electric weeder is drawing interest from sugarbeet growers seeking options against herbicide-resistant weeds. Energy and Commerce: A North Dakota judge denied Greenpeace’s request for a new trial in the Dakota Access Pipeline case; the group plans to appeal the $345 million judgment. Separately, an 8th Circuit ruling in a case brought by a North Dakota truck stop vacated the federal cap on debit interchange fees.
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