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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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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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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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It’s always dangerous casting an opinion on a wide swath of America. And few are wider than what might be described as ‘rural’. Still, economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman takes a crack at it. Perhaps he shouldn’t lump us all together, but not everything he writes should be discounted, either. Here’s the [...]
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It’s here, figuratively. Literally, we can expect it by the end of the year. It’s the no-meat cheeseburger, and many reports on the topic come with claims that people can’t taste the difference between the Impossible Whopper and the genuine article. Maybe, it’s a marketing gimmick. But meat-substitute stories have been a common topic here [...]
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Darryl LaCounte, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, has been appointed Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Mr. LaCounte has been acting in that role for the past year. The Bismarck Tribune has more on the story. [...]
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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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Television watching is vastly different today than it was even 10 years ago. Binge-watching and the viral-like consumption of content are major differences. And in the one case of one popular Netflix show from a few years ago with suicide story-line, researchers identified a spike in teen suicide following the release. While the researchers are [...]
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What do you do with a byproduct of the coal power generating industry that’s bad for the environment? In North Dakota, the goal is to use it to enhance the recovery of oil. And when that oil comes out, producers will enjoy an exemption from oil production taxes. Luke Geiver writing with North American Shale [...]
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In what can now be described as a spat between world leaders, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Iran will keep pumping oil despite a recent U.S. announcement that it will quit offering sanction-related waivers for purchase of Iranian oil exports. Meanwhile, production from the Bakken continues at near-record pace. Oil prices this morning are (WTI) [...]
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Media bias is real. Still, it’s not very often that we’re delivered such a clear example from so close to home. Yesterday, Jill Schramm wrote a great recap article on the operation of Minot State’s Air Supported Dome. If you didn’t catch it, please follow the link below to The Minot Daily and read it. [...]
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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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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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In the story below, you’ll read about North Dakota’s recently lower grades on air quality. The culprit is Western fires. If you follow this link through to the Washington Post, you’ll read that temperatures in the Western U.S. average 2 degrees warmer and snow melts a month earlier than 50 years ago. One result: more [...]
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When we think about North Dakota’s environment, most of us are pretty proud. But when it comes to air quality, our self-inflated perspective may be full of contaminated air — especially when the Western fires are burning. Get the full story from the Bismarck Tribune. [...]
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Last week you may have caught a quick Minot Voice story about the future of funerals. They’re changing because what we want at that last ritual is changing. If that article didn’t convince you, here’s another: Washington has become the first state to legalize human composting. In other words, if you really want to push [...]
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