Rod St. Aubyn: Rushing To Judgment In The 24/7 News Cycle

The culture of constant news has created an environment and an incentive for media outlets to reach for conclusion and judgement prior to having all the facts. It is an unhealthy trend.

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Dakota County College to Offer Minnesota’s First Brewing Certificate

One Minnesota school is embracing the craft brewing movement and will begin offering formal training for those wishing to turn their passion for brewing into a profession.

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How 13 Wild West Legends Got Their Nicknames

Ever wonder how folks like Doc Holliday and Calamity Jane got their nicknames. Wonder no more. Phil Edwards writing at VOX found the background story on some of the West’s most infamous characters.

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Work-From-Home Ads Offering Easy Money are Usually Scams

The Minot Voice golden rule of the Internet, if it sounds too good to be true, it is. That goes for most work from home jobs that promise easy money, especially when they’re advertised on the Internet.

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Mike Rowe: Of Assholes and Authenticity

The Minot Voice has featured commentary from Mike Rowe in the past, and we'll no doubt continue to do so in the future. Today he writes on the true meaning and danger of that old adage, 'just be yourself.'

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Everything is Taking Too Long

Occasionally we need to stop and laugh at ourselves, and The Onion is very good at pointing the many ways in which we are funny.

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Amazon to Start Testing Delivery Drones

The FAA has given Amazon permission to conduct outdoor research on the drone delivery system. The fact that UND, the Grand Forks Air Force Base, and the City of Grand Forks are partnering to move this technology forward makes this a local story.

Read & Share   sourced from: The Verge

Measure to Allow Alcohol Sales on Sunday Before Noon Passes Senate

A bill that would make a Sunday morning bloody mary  a little easier to purchase has now passed the Senate after quick amendment that would prevent off sale and a second vote. If signed, the bill would allow alcohol sales at 11 a.m. on Sundays.

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Riding in the Self Driving Mercedes-Benz F 015

We’ve covered self-driving cars in the past because it looks like they’re a big part of the future, but this article give you a chance to actually get inside of one. It’s not yet even a concept car, Mercedes is calling it a ‘research’ car, and the ideas they’re researching are cool!

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Cutting the Cord: A Sports Fan’s New Breed of TV

Have you been dreaming of the day where you didn’t have to pay for cable? Here’s an example of you can cut the cord but still keep a lot of the sports pieces in place.

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Voices of Watford City Aims to Tell the Other Story

Watford City is getting a lot of national media coverage these days and a few folks in town have gotten tired of the stories that have a political agenda. They’ve decided to take control and start telling their own story through a website called Voices of Waterford City. View the Voices of Watford City Website

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Video Commentary: What’s Wrong With The Media?

If you’ve gone through our welcome presentation, you know that a big part of what The Minot Voice is all about is improving the information we all consume on a daily basis. The idea is that if feed our brains a lean diet of premium content, we’ll see benefits in all sorts of places we don’t

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A Craft Beer Tax Battle Is Brewing On Capitol Hill

Small beer is becoming big business around the country, and lawmakers are taking notice with a bill that hopes to reduce taxes on small independent brewers.

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Canadian Imams Issue Fatwa on Islamic State

A group of Canadian imams have issued a religious edict declaring followers of the Islamic State as non-Muslim.

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Historical Native American Sports in the Classroom

KX News series Eye on Education goes to Burlington to take a look at some of the athletic past times of the prairie’s original residents.

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Minnesota: Lawmakers Take First Look at Liquor Reform

Lawmakers in Minnesota appear to have a growing appetite for getting alcohol policy right. It’s a subject The Minot Voice will be getting into in the future; articles like this are here to provide your future self with some topical context.

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