As you run your gratitude list today, here’s one item to add. Today, add a little extra thanks for our police officers and the...
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This past Saturday, the Friends of the Souris River organized their second river cleanup in as many months. This effort focused around the now-dead loops in the area of Oak Park and Nubbin Park and the results were dramatic. The final numbers: More than 60 Volunteers including 10 kids 4.5 tons of trash removed 375 [...]
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The Minot Police Department is warning joggers and walkers to stay aware of their surroundings following an attempted kidnapping in SE Minot on Thursday afternoon. Read the full news release below. — Official News Release, Minot Police Department On May 6th, a 27-year old female reported an incident that occurred on May 5th at 4:30 [...]
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Why the hell isn’t the City of Minot doing any kind of “Shop our Downtown” advertising? Come on, people! I’m sick and tired of watching our local businesses slowly waste away from this construction disease! We are going to lose these places if something isn’t done, and soon. These small businesses have been fighting the good [...]
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Because most of us have already made up our minds about the Presidential race to make America grate again, let’s shift over to the intraparty contest for the Republican gubernatorial nod. For full disclosure, once upon a time in the west, I served for eight years with Wayne Stenehjem in the North Dakota state senate. [...]
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Did you notice? The City of Minot Public Works Department and Committee are recommending the City hire Houston Engineering to complete engineering work required for Minot’s System Wide Improvement Framework (SWIF). The SWIF is the plan we’re going to execute to bring our existing flood control levees back into compliance with Corps of Engineers requirements. [...]
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Last week was committee week for the City of Minot, and there were more than a few notable items on tonight’s City Council agenda. Here’s the quick rundown of last week’s committee recommendations of note. Planning Commission We are a little more than a month removed from the troubling allegations of dysfunction and favoritism within [...]
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It doesn’t take a biology or chemistry degree to understand fish need water, and it’s no secret the expanded wet cycle since 1993 was the key ingredient in creating a modern version of the good old days in terms of fishing in North Dakota. But reduced snowpack and consequently less fresh spring run-off the last [...]
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We’re very excited to tell everyone about a new organization that’s formed in Minot. Friends of the Souris River is a grassroots group with the mission of making the Souris River in Minot a point of community pride. We’re planning a river cleanup this coming Saturday headquartered out of Roosevelt Park, and we’ll be advocating [...]
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Over the last 15 years, few things have changed as much as the way we buy music. It has gone from a social experience in a store with tangible items to a private experience that leaves us with nothing but a digital trail of clicks. Gone too is the album experience of settling in with [...]
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Did you catch last week’s video flyover of Minot’s first phase of flood protection? It’s an extremely helpful visualization tool, and the City of Minot and Houston Engineering should be applauded for developing it. Well done! That said, there’s a significant design flaw, and if it doesn’t get corrected now, it’s the people in Northeast [...]
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A fly-over rendering of Minot’s first phase of flood protection is available on Youtube. Phase one is being designed by Houston Engineering and extends from near the Broadway bridge East to 3rd Street. Major parts of the project include: A significant floodwall for almost the entire length of 4th Avenue. 4th Avenue will be shifted [...]
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It was business as usual at tonight’s regularly scheduled City Council meeting. The big item on Monday’s City Council meeting agenda was whether to allow a conditional use permit for a City Council, April 4, 2016 Members Absent: Ben Berg, Dave Shomento Approval of Bills and Payroll. Monthly bills were approved without discussion. A list [...]
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A new discovery has revealed that the Vikings may have travelled hundreds of miles further into North America than previously thought. And the manner in which the discovery was made may surprise you. [...]
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If election years are good for nothing else, they are good for irony. Our Republican friends seem to be preaching that socialism is a threat to America. We could become “European” and as substandard as German cars, Swiss chocolates, and French wine. Meanwhile, here in North Dakota, every statewide elected office in Bismarck is held [...]
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A few weeks ago my column explained the transition of documenting bald eagle “sightings” from when they were an endangered species, until now when they are no longer endangered. While bald eagles are of course still protected as a national symbol, they are common enough now that individual sightings no longer warrant a special report, [...]
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As #MakeMinot, we’ve formally launched our campaign to vote ‘Yes’ on City Council reform at the June 14th Primary Election. The full news release follows below. — Official News Release, #MakeMinot — A group organized to advocate City Council reform in Minot has announced their campaign to support a ‘Yes’ vote on a reform question [...]
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