they do it because they know that north dakotans are friendly toward business and will work hard to help their employers be successful. our economic success is broad based. we have thousands of job openings in north dakota today. but almost every day the national media asks me if it isn't all due to the oil boom in northwestern north dakota. i enjoy telling them, the county with the most job openings is not among western oil counties, but is the county surrounding fargo, our largest city