Minot has a 2 cent sales tax, Ward County adds a half cent, and the Park District’s hope is that we’ll swap property taxes for an additional one cent. You’re going to need a sales tax education; start with this story from KX News.
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The news: The Fargo area is moving towards making it’s recycling program even more convenient. The quick commentary: In Minot, we’ve yet to get the ball rolling on any type of recycling program and we’re running out of room in our landfill.
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With agriculture, we feed the world. With oil, we power the world. And with the Minot Air Force Base, we protect the world. These ideas sit at the core of the Minot’s application for the National Disaster Resiliency Competition and give City officials confidence that there will be an award of federal dollars that will
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You may have noticed some coverage of Minot’s City Council recently. Here’s a short reference piece to show you it is possible to make changes to how our local government is managed.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Minot Park Board held a special meeting Wednesday afternoon to complete procedural steps needed to move forward with building the Minot Aquatics & Recreation Center and funding the Park District through a 1 cent sales tax as opposed to a property tax. Two motions were passed, one approving the ballot language that will now
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A newly imposed fee for transporting recyclables will likely put Medora’s recycling program in jeopardy. Commentary: Meanwhile in Minot, we have yet to figure out a way to save a little space in the landfill.
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The Minot Police Department nabbed 13 yesterday in the National Day of Johns, a nationwide sting set-up to take down sex traffickers and those fueling the business.
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Every once in a while, it’s important to stop and ask ‘How are we doing?’, and ‘Are we on the right track?’. As Minot’s newest local media company we’re going to be asking a lot of these types of questions over the next few months, and we’re starting here, with a survey on what you
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The $120 million requested from the state is not for the Fargo flood diversion project, it’s for flood protection needs prior to the diversion project and would be used for engineering and legal fees, right of way acquisition, land purchases, home buyouts and construction of levees and floodwalls.
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