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Luxury pricing for lawn watering? City of Bismarck defends water rate structure

by: Josh Wolsky | May 3, 2019

Last fall, the Bismarck City Commission approved a rate structure that priced water at higher rates the more a user used. From the Bismarck Tribune article linked here, this is how it works: A single-family household that uses 24 units of water per month, for example, would pay $1.42 per unit for the first 4

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Hitchhiking to Egypt and ancient life on the Giza Plateau

by: Josh Wolsky | May 2, 2019

This week’s second hour of #GoodTalk Minot featured Minot-native Dr. Mark Lehner, world renown authority on what life was really like at the time the Great Sphinx and pyramids were built. As interesting as the ancient Egypt side of the conversation is, you may appreciate the story of how Dr. Lehner found himself there in

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From the Air Force to the Army and back again, A conversation with Mike Sian

by: Josh Wolsky | May 2, 2019

Yesterday’s first episode of #GoodTalk Minot featured Mike Sian. Mike is a new business owner with Spectrum Fitness on Minot’s North Hill and has a long history with the military and martial arts. We cover all these topics and more in this conversation.

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A Haunting Reading of Adrienne Rich’s Poem About Love, Perspective, and the Hubble Space Telescope

by: Josh Wolsky | May 1, 2019

As much as it is for our ‘place’, The Minot Voice was equally developed as a platform to elevate that which is remarkable — especially in the form of performance or creation. What you experience below is all of this and more. It was sourced from Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings where she provides much deeper

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Slow down, pay attention, save a life

by: Josh Wolsky | May 1, 2019

We all know (hopefully) the roads are dangerous places, but from time to time, we’re given a sad reminder. And while there are many steps being taken to protect drivers, it’s often those people outside of cars — pedestrians and bicyclists — that are often the most vulnerable. In Bismarck yesterday, a cyclist was hit

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Estevan Council amends economic incentives package

by: Josh Wolsky | May 1, 2019

The City of Estevan is taking a closer look at its economic development incentives and moving toward some revisions. And what outcomes are they hoping to achieve? Providing better support for small businesses and making sure their incentives are aligned with the City’s larger goals and vision. If this sounds familiar, much of Minot’s work

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Fargo’s Iconic Black Building getting sign to match historic origin

by: Josh Wolsky | May 1, 2019

Have you ever considered how signs contribute to the atmosphere of a place? You wouldn’t be alone if you said no, but more and more places are recognizing the value signing contributes to a larger experience. In Fargo, one developer wants to make their experience one that includes nostalgic time travel. Helmut Schmidt with the

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Minot-rooted Egyptologist Mark Lehner making news across North Dakota

by: Josh Wolsky | April 30, 2019

Minot native and world renown Egyptologist Mark Lehner is in North Dakota this week. He’ll be joining the conversation on #GoodTalk Minot Wednesday at 1:00pm and speaking on Thursday evening at MSU. But if you’re curious about a primer, Mr. Lehner gave Prairie Public an interview last week that plots his path from Minot to

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#GoodTalking Minot Baseball, Corbett Field, and all things Sabre Dogs

by: Josh Wolsky | April 30, 2019

For last week’s second hour of #GTM, we were joined by Sabre Dogs top brass, General Manager Darrell Handelsman and Assistant GM Savannah Young. Tune in below for talk of summer, evenings at the ballpark, what it means to be a professional, and of course, all things baseball.

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#GoodTalkMinot on city business with Alderman Shannon Straight

by: Josh Wolsky | April 30, 2019

Last week’s episodes of #GoodTalk Minot are back in the feed. If you missed out on the live conversation, catch up below as we chat with Alderman Shannon Straight on all things Minot and the City.

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Conservatives, liberals, populists, libertarians… and now, the localists

by: Josh Wolsky | April 30, 2019

A couple stories down on our home page news feed (or here) you’ll find a slanted-toward-hopeless perspective on the challenges in rural America written by NYT columnist Paul Krugman. His suggestion: he doesn’t know how America can fix [insert-name-of-small-town-here]. And in a great reversal of perspective, another NYT columnist, David Brooks, makes the argument that

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No, Revitalizing Rural America Isn’t A Lost Cause. But the Way You’re Thinking About it Might Be.

by: Josh Wolsky | April 30, 2019

If you read Paul Krugman’s opinion previously published here (in our main news feed or here), and your passionate about this place or your town, odds are that you’re going to be a little put-off. And if that’s the case, where does he go wrong? Is it maybe that we shouldn’t be looking for big,

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Grand Forks taking comment on downtown plans

by: Josh Wolsky | April 30, 2019

There’s no shortage of public outcry over Minot’s proposed downtown gathering space. For us, this is an opportunity created by the City’s NDR grant success and an incremental step following the larger infrastructure investment. But for sake of comparison, many of these same ideas are churning through the mill in other places. As one example,

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Local Politics Aren’t As Polarized As National Politics

by: Josh Wolsky | April 29, 2019

Are you tired of hearing how divided America is? Maybe it’s just that we’re listening to the wrong people about the wrong topics. When it comes to local issues, Republicans and Democrats are much closer together on important issues than you’d probably assume. Check out this article from CityLab that breaks down the data on

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More cities recognizing value in restoring rivers

by: Josh Wolsky | April 29, 2019

What have we learned about past river management practices across the country? Mostly, we weren’t very good at it, and the things we did to help ourselves in the past have expensive consequences today. In Minot, we’re just waking up to the reality created by our past attempts at flood protection. Locally, we call them

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The unintended side of tough immigration policy

by: Josh Wolsky | April 29, 2019

If you want to start an argument, bring up immigration as it relates to the Southern border. If you want to start a conversation about immigration and immigration policy, start with this article from Quartz. The unintended consequences of policy often reach farther than we realize. In this case, tightening one immigration program is leading

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