Bias at the top. I’m a regular user of the Ann Street Bridge. I support the opening proposed by Alderman Straight. And the bridge has been a recent topic here on The Minot Voice. If you want to catch up on the story, here’s everything that’s been published. Approximately a year ago, when the Phase
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Bias at the top. I’m a regular user of the Ann Street Bridge. I support the opening proposed by Alderman Straight. And the bridge has been a recent topic here on The Minot Voice. If you want to catch up on the story, here’s everything that’s been published. If you didn’t know, designs for flood
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Information is both the currency and lubricant that moves the world forward. But as we find ourselves in the Information Age’s period of juvenile delinquency, the challenge in filtering out the bad information and raising the good information to the top is our biggest challenge. Social media made the problem worse because it’s hastened the
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GovLab’s mission is to improve people’s lives by changing the way we govern. And in one of there recent articles, they key on the critical need for citizen input in developing the design of applications and solutions. The quote below was in direct reference to the design of a digital time-saving application, but it rings
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With news that OPEC has an agreement with member countries and Russia to reduce output, the conversation in North Dakota will shift to how did we come through this down cycle in the industry? And a couple reporters from Reuters have the start of the answer. It may turn out that the OPEC attempt to
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Grand Forks is going to consider allowing app-driven ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft into town, but first they’re going to gather data from the citizens — and specifically UND students — to see if they can determine how people are getting around town. Check out the full article to see how the City
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Since the election, there have been numerous incidents of hate crimes and race-based invective in the news. But are these incidents on the rise? Anecdotally, it sure seems that way but it is a difficult question to answer definitively because there is relatively little data available to researchers.
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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources put together a helpful graphic that tells us when it’s safe to be on the ice. Brad Dokken followed it up with some tips that may save your life if you’re on the ice and the worst happens.
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Science is the method by which progressional learning takes place. We theorize about the effect of a particular action, test whether it’s true, evaluate the results, and repeat the process. And that scientific method has now been applied to what was previously the art of making mashed potatoes. Learn how here, and if any readers
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In the Eastern part of the state, there were sales tax initiatives on the ballot in both Fargo and Grand Forks. One of them earned voter approval, one didn’t. In this editorial, the Grand Forks Herald staff step back and look at the differences between the two as an exercise in learning.
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Whatever your place on the political spectrum — left, right, or indifferent — we can almost all agree that the national news is broken. Facebook is trying to ‘fix’ the news by eliminating fake news, but there are a few of us making the argument that we should begin focusing our attention inward — locally.
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Frustrated by contractors who seemingly never completed work on time, the City of Fargo has begun building both bonus and penalty incentives into the city’s construction contracts. Get done early, get paid more. Get done late, get paid less. Call it the carrot and the stick method if you want, but early results in Fargo
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Kayla Delzer, A 3rd-grade teacher in Mapleton, is taking tech integration to new places in teaching, and for her efforts, she was invited to speak at a Digital Citizenship Summit at Twitter headquarters in San Fransisco. Here’s the quote you should remember about education today, “Sixty-five percent of today’s schoolchildren will be employed in jobs
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Rob Port makes the argument that no form of law making should be without some type of check and balance, and maybe our statewide initiated measure process is in need of some revision.
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In the not-so-flattering department, we have this news from the Fargo Forum. North Dakota ranks second highest in the nation for the rate of hate crimes per capita. Quick commentary: Perhaps it’s a sign of changing times and the natural accompanying resistance, but we all have a responsibility to stand up against this behavior; we’ve
Read & Share sourced from: InForumWhile much of the North Dakota economy is in the doldrums brought forth by low commodity prices, business and housing in Fargo is still trending up. Commentary: It would seem that Fargo has solved the resilient economy problem, and the rest of us in the state should probably be looking at them as an example.
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