City Council meets tonight. The agenda includes more than a few items you should know about; read it here. Perhaps most interesting, two items related to our infamous downtown parking garages will be considered. First, where should the City employees park when City Hall moves downtown later this year? That is a timely question. More
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The Ward County Commission will meet Tuesday, February 7th at 9:00 am for the first of their regular monthly meetings. The meeting will take place at the Ward County Administration Building on 3rd Street in downtown Minot. The Commission will consider the following agenda. The complete Commissioner meeting packet can be viewed here.
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Affordable housing is a challenge across the country. In Minot, we’ve spent many tens of millions of dollars over the past ten years attempting to move the needle. But maybe we should be looking at solutions beyond direct subsidies? In Montana, our neighbors to the west are taking a novel approach — forcing the law
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They would be required to be enclosed on all four sides and have ventilation systems, and if the Senate says yes, a bill allowing cigar lounges will go to Governor Burgum. The house passed the bill by a vote of 59-32 last Wednesday. Representative Dan Ruby of Minot is the sponsor of the bill; he
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It’s always awkward when you’re asked to bring the beer to Thanksgiving dinner, but you forget you can’t buy it on that particular Thursday. Well if you forget this year, you may have the North Dakota Legislature to thank for saving your skin. The house passed a bill making Thanksgiving Day alcohol off-premise sales legal
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A Detroit Lakes police officer is speaking out about a problem that’s growing everywhere — terrible parents who can’t seem to figure out their priorities or the purpose of youth sports. At a recent youth hockey game in Minnesota, Officer Robert Strand encountered parents behaving poorly. And not only that, they delayed him from responding
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The building of public infrastructure is big business and in Oklahoma, the desire to build a $5 billion turnpike expansion project was greater than the desire to do it legally and transparently. That ruling came through the courts on December 1st, and it was ugly. The finding was that the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority had “willfully
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The Ward County Commission will meet Tuesday, January 17th at 9:00 am in the County Commission room on the 2nd floor of the County Administration Building. The agenda below will be considered. The full agenda including Commissioner packet information can be found here. AGENDA FOR THE BOARD OF WARD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Tuesday, January 17, 2023,
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Minot City Council will meet Tuesday, January 17, at 5:30 pm to consider the agenda attached below. There are several impactful items on the agenda including approval of a new construction property tax abatement program as well as a presentation by the Minot Area Chamber – Economic Development Corporation on their annual contracted activities. Minot
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Over North Dakota’s recent political past, we’ve had no shortage of stories related to petition fraud. It’s the price we’ve paid with a state law that has historically relied more on honor than teeth. This legislative session may change that. Rob Port has the news and commentary on the bipartisan-sponsored House Bill 1230 that’s intended
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The magic number in the Magic City has long been 50,000. That’s how many people we wanted here; it opens the door to forming a Metropolitan Planning Organization, which in turn opens other doors to dollars and planning. Well, we made it. Jill Schramm with The Minot Daily News has the full story and all
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It’s early January at the City of Minot, which means we’re in the middle of making preparations for our annual State of the City event. This year’s State of the City is scheduled for Feb. 9 at The Depot (15 Main Street North). The State of the City is open to the public, with my speech
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Local coverage of the City’s snow removal failure on public sidewalks started here on TheMinotVoice last week. Yesterday, Jill Schramm with The Minot Daily News added to the story. Nine days past the initial public attention to the failure and now eighteen days since the last measurable snowfall in Minot, and many city-maintained sidewalks are
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A bill to let the voters decide on sports betting in North Dakota has passed in the House. Lydia Hoverson writing for The Dakotan has the story that includes quotes from two Minot legislators. If the bill is passed in the Senate and signed by the governor, the measure would be placed on the ballot
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Has the mail been a topic of any of your recent conversations? If you’re in Minot, the answer is likely yes. Mail delivery delays and lost mail, they’re challenges many in Minot including the post office are dealing with. But are we alone in this problem? Not at all. One customer that’s really feeling it
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Two bills in the legislature are taking on ‘sexually explicit books’. Senate Bill 2123 and House Bill 1205 both take on the topic, and comments provided by the North Dakota Library Association on the topic were direct and against both. At the core of the problem, taking away people’s freedom to choose what information they
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