CurioOn This Day | An Institution is Born
The new radio station KCJB in Minot is now under construction and owner and manager, John W. Bolger, expects to be on the air over KCJB by August 1. [...]
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CurioOn This Day | The Crows are Flying
And a swing around town most any time of the day will find new cars lining all the curbs . . . on both sides of all teh streets . . . say nothing [...]
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CurioOn This Day | The Old Swimming Hole
As many as 57 youngsters at a time use these two horrid, disease-breeding river swimming holes daily because Minot has no swimming pool. [...]
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CurioOn This Day | Populations on the Move
The Garrison newspaper reporting this information, transposed all the figure so that the towns all showed tremendous drops. The Garrison Chamber of commerce has tacked the editors scalp to the barn door there and [...]
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CurioOn This Day | Ice Show Graces Fair
Something new and hauntingly beautiful will be seen at North Dakota State Fair every evening. A big time ice show presenting 25 of the world's finest skaters on real ice! [...]
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CurioPublic Space Is the Infrastructure of Democracy. It’s Time to Protect Our Right to Gather.
With America’s 250th birthday just around the corner, it’s worth remembering that democracy isn’t only shaped in courts or legislatures — it thrives in parks, plazas, and on sidewalks where people gather to speak, protest, and debate. Public spaces have always been central to self-government, from the Liberty Tree to today’s city squares. Keeping these [...]
Read & Share sourced from: Next CityNewsChevron: $55 Billion Deal For Hess Completed
Chevron’s $55 billion acquisition of Hess isn’t just about offshore riches in Guyana — it has real relevance for North Dakota too. Hess has long been a major operator in the Bakken, one of the state’s economic engines. While the legal fight that delayed this deal centered on Guyana’s Stabroek Block, the merger now ties [...]
Read & Share sourced from: ReutersNews‘No manual on how to do this’: How is ND preparing for sweeping changes to property taxation?
North Dakota’s property tax overhaul is reshaping local budgets, and rural communities are feeling the squeeze. While homeowners are set to receive substantial relief — credits that could wipe out tax bills for some — cities and counties face tight new limits on how much they can raise. Rural areas, especially dependent on property taxes, [...]
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NewsE.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
The Environmental Protection Agency is about to gut the very division that provides the research behind its own environmental safeguards. Hundreds of scientists — the chemists, toxicologists, and biologists who help us understand air, water, and chemical risks — are being shown the door. This isn’t just a bureaucratic shake-up; it’s a profound shift in [...]
Read & Share sourced from: New York TimesCurioCan AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT
Can AI actually think? Plato and Aristotle might have something to say about that. Their ancient distinctions between reason, intuition, and wisdom offer a surprising lens on today’s technologies. Machines may analyze data and generate responses that look like thought, but do they understand? The Greeks argued that true thinking requires something more: an embodied, [...]
Read & Share sourced from: The ConversationNewsFedorchak to hold fourth virtual town hall Monday
Rep. Julie Fedorchak is keeping her promise to stay accessible, hosting her fourth virtual town hall Monday evening — a chance for North Dakotans to ask questions directly. Fresh off in-person office hours in Fargo, she’s signaling a hands-on approach to constituent service, even as she backs key Republican legislative priorities. Whether it’s discussing policy [...]
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CurioListen: How Community Gardens Can Make Cities Stronger
In a time when cities often feel fragmented and impersonal, Denver Urban Gardens is cultivating more than food — it’s nurturing connection. Executive director Linda Appel Lipsius leads a network of over 200 community gardens and food forests that produce hundreds of thousands of pounds of hyper-local produce annually, all while creating shared spaces that [...]
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CurioDakota Gardener: Popcorn in the garden
The other night, my husband and I went to the movie theater, which I can’t remember the last time we went to see a movie. The most popular snack at the movie theater is, of course, buttered popcorn. As we were munching on the popcorn, the idea for this column struck me: the popcorn plant! [...]
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CurioOn This Day | Opportunity Draws Immigrants
They have proved to those of us who can't see the forest because we are too close to the trees that opportunity is as great today as yesterday in America. [...]
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CurioOn This Day | You Gotta Ask Nicely
The lack of a band this year will be worthwhile if it causes the people of Minot to be sufficiently interested now to (1) appropriate the $6,000 possible for such a band, (2) go [...]
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CurioOn This Day | It’s Fair Time!
* * WITH DANCING EVENINGS * * FAIRGROUNDS PAVILION [...]
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