NewsMax, ND, to Hold School Bond Election
On Friday, residents in Max will be deciding on a nearly $8 million school expansion. [...]
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NewsStates Begin Taking Action on Flood Insurance
The National Flood Insurance Program is $20 billion in debt, and large premium increases have some states looking to buy up and buy out their highest risk properties rather than continually. The article provides context for why flood insurance premiums are rising. [...]
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NewsAg Week: Big Decisions, Drones, and Auctioneers
Deadlines and decisions related to the farm bill, a competition for auctioneers, and drones in the field. Catch all of them on this weeks edition of AgWeek. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: Grand Forks HeraldNewsNearly a Billion Monarchs Butterflies Have Vanished
Since 1990, monarch butterfly counts have shown a decrease by nearly a billion insects. Is this a canary in the coal mine? I don’t know, but I can say that I notice fewer of them around than in years past. More from the Washington Post. [...]
Read & Share sourced from: The Washington PostNewsStatistical Analysis: Bakken Oil Field & Petroleum Age
Recent talk from industry experts on the oil field has been reserved but confident — we’re seeing a slow down, but the long-term picture is secure. Here’s a different story from a geologist with a proven track record who sees a slightly different future for the Bakken. [...]
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NewsOil Spill Reporting & Representation Has Some Problems
Oil field spills have been in the news recently, and Emily Guerin takes a look at North Dakota’s reporting policies and procedures. The article exposes some problematic practices that I have also noticed when trying to gather data from the Department of Mineral Resources website. [...]
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The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged...
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Quote: The Lengths We Went to For Public Health
An epidemic of diphtheria is almost inevitable here STOP I am in urgent need of one million units of diphtheria antitoxin STOP Mail is only form of transportation STOP I have made application to Commissioner of Health of the Territories...
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Quote: Here Begins a New Life
In that book, which is my memory, on the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you appear the words, 'here begins a new life.
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NewsCity Council Reform: We’re Starting the Conversation
I’ve thought for several days now how I wanted to proceed regarding the survey on Minot’s City Council. Whether you participated or not, the results raise serious questions about our community. And while I have my opinion on what the results tell us, in a community like Minot — where we all know and trust [...]
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NewsCity Council Survey: About the Survey & the Results
The City Council survey arose out of some research I did on the makeup of our City Council; it revealed this: compared to neighbor communities, Minot’s Council is quite large. Plus, over the past three election cycles (information further back was not as easily accessible), we’ve had few contested elections for Council seats. I presented [...]
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CommentaryCity Council Survey: The Wrong Conclusions
If you’ve just landed on this page, and you don’t know what this is all about, you should probably go back to the beginning. This is the fifth post in a nine-part series, and before you read this, you need some context. Start here. If you’ve just read City Council Survey: The Survey & Results, you’re [...]
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CommentaryCity Council Survey: Are These the Right Conclusions?
If you’ve just landed on this page, and you don’t know what this is all about, you should probably go back to the beginning. This is the sixth post in a nine-part series, and before you read this, you need some context. Start here. If you’ve just read City Council Survey: The Wrong Conclusions, you’re [...]
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CommentaryLet’s Fix a Broken System and Restore Trust in Leadership
Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time. --Henry Ward Beecher [...]
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NewsLeadership Says: On Restoring Trust in Local Leadership
Leadership Says is a semi-regular feature on The Minot Voice whereby we pose a question or topic to our elected leaders and ask for their thoughts. The Topic: At the City level, Minot has some serious trust issues as evidenced by our recent survey on the performance of our City Council. How did we get [...]
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CommentaryCity Council Reform: #MakeMinot — Join the Conversation
Leave a comment The comment section is down there, just keep scrolling. If you have some quick thoughts or want to publicly show your support one way or another — here’s your chance. You’ll need to register, use your full name, and keep it civil. If you agree to all of that, we’ll be happy to [...]
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