Last night was the first Monday of the month which means City Council had their regularly scheduled meeting. It was a relatively quick meeting. A recap follows below, but if you want more detail the committee agendas are the place to find it. View those here: Planning Commission, Public Works, Finance, Liquor & Gaming And
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The City of Dickinson has scheduled public meetings to bring out issues with the city’s liquor license laws that need to be fixed. City Administrator Shawn Kessel expects the process to require several meetings depending on how many issues need to be addressed.
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The Souris River as it passes through Minot has lost much of its natural allure — mostly due to the fact we’ve been trying to figure out how to protect ourselves when it floods. But a conversation has started about how to recover some of what we’ve lost in terms of the benefits a river
Read & ShareThe City of Cedar Rapids Iowa flooded in 2008, three years before Minot, and they too are lobbying politicians to secure Federal funding. The efforts include telling their story to any and everyone who will listen, including Republican House Whip, Steve Scalise from Louisiana.
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Hess Corporation is bullish on the prospects in the Bakken, and the company is taking early steps to increase drilling in 2017. Though the slowdown has been hard on earnings, the company has positioned themselves well for the future by working towards lowering costs and increasing productivity out of completions. Both efforts have delivered notable
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NDSU got a generous gift from a former alumnus. Harry D. McGovern gifted the University $13.5 million that will be matched with $1.2 million from the state’s challenge grant program. The dollars are earmarked towards scholarships for science and math students.
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Minot’s Magic City Discovery Center is opening for its third season. Sometimes described as a children’s museum, the MCDC is open Wednesday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
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A formerly long-standing and often bitter rivalry will be renewed this weekend when the UND men’s hockey team travels to Minnesota to take on the gophers. The teams were previously conference rivals, but they’ve not a regular season series since a conference reorganization a few years back.
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Data on the number of job openings available in North Dakota is catching up to what we’ve all been feeling intuitively — the economy is slowing and there are fewer jobs available. This article from the Dickinson press has a few more details.
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Sheriff’s deputies from three Minneapolis area counties spent time assisting in the Dakota Access law enforcement last month, but the decision to provide that help generated protests itself. Sheriffs from the three counties maintain politics played no role in answering the call for help.
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Six million dollars in unused flood recovery money intended for buyouts and allocated from the State Water Commission to Ward County will likely be spent within the City of Minot. The County Commission voted Tuesday to allow spending of those dollars within the City with the provision that they remain in the loop and provide
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The work has been underway for weeks, but it became plainly obvious this morning. Minot’s old airport terminal is being demolished. Of the material, the steel and bricks will be recycled and much of the building was already salvaged. A brief video of the action is below and the full news release from the City
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TED is teaming up with Audible to deliver a series on ideas that need an audience — even if the presenter wishes to remain anonymous. This idea might be particularly valuable in a small town like Minot where we as individuals often self-censor our opinions out of fear of social, business, or professional reprisal.
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Managing the size of TRNP’s elk herd is a nearly annual process. This year, park officials expect to take approximately thirty animals — mostly females — as they contribute most to reproduction in the park.
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The map of the world you grew up looking at on the wall of your elementary school classroom is known as the Mercator Projection. And it’s wrong, really wrong. But the problem of how to present a 3-dimensional globe onto a flat piece of paper and keep it accurate is a difficult one. But we are
Read & ShareWe were introduced to the concept of a smart house 20 years ago. Today, many of us are living in them. That same revolution is taking place in the way we design and build our bigger living spaces — the towns and cities we go to work in. And the trick to making them really
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