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One of the reasons The Minot Voice focuses on news from other areas is because it’s rare that a community like Minot confronts a wholly new and unique problem. Whatever our challenge, and we have plenty, there are good odds that some community somewhere has faced a similar challenge. And the more we read around, [...]
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I was out of state on vacation the week of July 4th. Upon my return, it was interesting to note an unprecedented media controversy involving the Ward County State’s Attorney’s office and Judge Stacey Louser. As a former Ward County Assistant State’s Attorney and a former criminal defense lawyer (including murder, attempted murder, and manslaughter), [...]
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Minot’s automated garbage pickup starts today. It’s the first step toward implementing a city-wide recycling program too. But there’s work and investment that needs to be done before that happens. First, Minot needs a transfer station, so recyclables can be efficiently packaged and hauled to a MRF (materials recovery facility). And that’s where the real [...]
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The battle over who pays what is an eternal one in government, and when it comes to housing inmates serving sentences the payor is often a matter of where the inmate is staying. Is it in a state correctional facility or a county one? And shifting policy as well as a lot of new beds [...]
Read & Share sourced from: Bismarck TribuneKill the meeting! Well, not completely, but Fargo employers are adapting to new ways of thinking and one of the old ideas that’s slowly going the way of the dodo bird — staff get-togethers. It turns out that meeting for meeting sake is a great way to kill morale and stifle productivity. Business owners take [...]
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The City of Moorhead is trying to figure out where they want to go, and they’re taking a novel approach to bringing forward ideas — they’re asking the citizens. Good ideas are always worth copying. [...]
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The old mantra for the environmentally minded heading into the wilderness was, “take only pictures, leave only footprints”. But for a few, it seems that’s not good enough. The concept is called adventure stewardship, and the goal is to go out and have the fun recreationally but leave the environment better as a result. In [...]
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The Mouse River Enhanced Flood Protection Project (MREFPP) is a basin-wide concept. Most of the spending is focused in Minot and other small towns, but there are options for those in the rural reaches as well. KX News has the update on the StARR program designed to acquire, relocate, or build ring dikes around flood threatened [...]
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Most of Netherlands is no more than a few feet above sea level, and they’ve suffered major floods many times throught the past hundred years. Sound familiar? They’re approach and experience with flood protection is worth noting as we move along here in Minot. The whole article is worth a read, but the pieces that [...]
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The number of rigs active in North Dakota is holding steady the past few months and production is still above a million barrels per day, but there’s a worker shortage in the fracking industry that’s delaying completion of many already-drilled wells. There’s also some transition taking place in the amount of oil moved by rail [...]
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We’re used to seeing the U.S. rig count and the increases or decreases in North Dakota, but it’s easy to forget that the northern prairie oil play extends into Canada as well. That gives us a second indicator of optimism in the industry and compared to last year, the Canadians are optimistic about oil futures. [...]
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Obviously, the Minneapolis-St.Paul market is different; there’s a lot more people. Still, this news blurb about the opening of twelve new restaurants is remarkable. It’s an end result of a self-sustaining economy and indicators like this are what we should be aiming for as we attempt to diversify our local economy. [...]
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With $330 million as our local cost for flood protection, there’s no distance too far to look when it comes to searching out good ideas that may tie into the project in some way. And though this idea isn’t directly related to saving life and property, it may be a way to enhance the project. [...]
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Necessity is the mother of invention, and we’ve experienced that first hand here in the North Dakota oil patch. The necessity was to survive an OPEC supply assault intended to force shale operators out of the market with lower prices. The invention was better, more efficient ways to drill. And as the term of the [...]
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When it comes to economic activity, the arts and culture communities are not little players. The North Dakota Council of the Arts was a participant in a recent economic impact study conducted in 341 regions in the U.S. The findings are significant; the arts culture and communities in North Dakota annually generate $110 million in economic [...]
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This coming weekend will feature a number of events organized by Pride Minot as a part of their annual festival. Checkout the full news release below. — Official News Release, Pride Minot — Pride Minot, an organization to help strengthen and serve the LGBTQA+ population in Minot, will host its fifth annual Minot Pride Festival [...]
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