Members of the Souris River Joint Board and engineers from Ackerman Estvold and Bar Engineering held a public input meeting at Perkett School last night. The design work for Minot’s west-side flood protection is ~30% complete; this meeting was intended to present the progress and gather public feedback. Here are the important points: This meeting
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News releases from the Minot Police department provide some timely warnings on fireworks and presence of counterfeit money working through the community. Full news releases are below. No Fireworks in the City With the Fourth of July approaching, the Minot Police Department Crime Prevention Unit reminds people of Minot of the following fire code adopted
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Jill Schramm of the Minot Daily News has the report on yesterday’s planning commission meeting. Of note, the commission’s recommendation to keep dog daycares out of residential areas — an issue that was previously in front of City Council and pushed back to committee.
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In the first quarter of 2014, North Dakota’s sales tax revenue grew by 2.26% over the same period in 2014. And Minot was one of the fastest growing communities with over 10.75% growth in the same period. The official news release from the North Dakota Tax Commissioner’s office follows below. — Official News Release, ND
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If you’re new to Minot’s liquor license discussion, what’s happening in this post is an introduction to a few economic principles that illustrate why Minot’s laws governing liquor licenses are broken. Earlier this month, City Council attempted to redefine what it means to be a ‘supper club’ (a type liquor license). In the process, they
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It will be a long time before flooding isn’t in the Minot news towards the end of June, but this year there were a few more reasons than simply the time of year. The four-year anniversary was marked by a couple stories you should know about. First of all, the Souris River Joint Board met
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The City of Bismarck updated their laws on where food trucks can park. It’s an issue many communities are facing right now. In Minot, the Park Board recently voted to allow food trucks to operate in Minot Parks provided they get a permit.
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Minot is one of forty municipal and state governments that will be moving on to the second round of the National Disaster Resilience Competition, a program sponsored by Housing and Urban development that will award up to a billion dollars of federal money. — Official News Release, City of Minot — U.S. Housing and Urban
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Cedar Rapids flooded three years before Minot; it makes them a useful measuring stick. Their final flood protection plan has just been unveiled and is similar in scope to Minot’s. Of most interest might be the personnel structure that’s been implemented to move the process forward.
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The City of Minot wants you to know about a town hall style meeting, Monday June 22nd, in room 201 at the auditorium. The meeting will be about a proposed opioid treatment clinic otherwise known as a methadone clinic. The full news release follows below. — Official News Release, City of Minot — Community Medical
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In today’s economics lesson, I’ll talk a bit about regulatory arbitrage, and why Minot’s new liquor license law is such a terrible one. And it’s the perfect place to start because it’s the exact practice we as a City were trying to eliminate by writing a new law. In a nutshell, regulatory arbitrage is the
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The Corps of Engineers was in town the last two days helping city, county, and other agency officials identify the needs and steps required to put a flood emergency action plan in place. Jill Schramm from The Minot Daily has the story. This article requires a redirect through a Google search page.
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The City of East Grand Forks is looking for ways to accommodate a new business inside their existing liquor laws, but if they fail, they’ll consider amending their laws to make the business concept possible.
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This presentation is a few months old, but the information is still relevant. As you do the research, it turns out Minot’s method of local government is quite different than other cities in our state.
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Last week’s liquor license decision was so bad that I’ve been at a loss for words to describe it (or perhaps had too many of the four-lettered ones). Whenever City Council votes on a topic, particularly one that’s a bit controversial, the outcome of that vote sends a message about where we’re heading as a
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On the heels of a really bad decision — like the one that came out of City Council last week — we’re going to assume that our elected officials simply don’t understand the consequences of their actions. In a small community like Minot, where we all know and trust each other, the idea of ‘bounded
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