When I met with a planner from High River, Alberta, one recommendation from the Strong Towns Housing Toolkit stopped her short: issue a housing permit in 24 hours. She tilted her head, reread the line, and asked: What would that even look[...]
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Watch: Videos Show Hummingbirds Jousting Like Medieval Knights in Rare Mating
The green hermit hummingbird is usually admired for precision—its long bill perfectly matched to tropical flowers. But during mating season, that same tool turns brutal. New research shows male green hermits use their sharper, straighter bills to fight rivals in midair jousts[...]
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On This Day | The Citizenship Challenge
To help high school students gain a greater feeling for Democracy and Citizenship, the Veterans of Foreign Wars each year conducts the Voice of Democracy program to encourage Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors in all public, private and parochial high school to think,[...]
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On This Day | It All Starts With Education
Education should be regarded as the domestic issue of the decade. Its aim is to develop every pupil’s ability to live usefully in society and to meet successfully the demands which society has a right to make upon him. Education for individual[...]
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On This Day | Studying the “Multiplier” Effect
Stadig used the “multiplier effect” in his study of income and spending in the Lisbon area. The multiplier effect measures the amount of income re-spent in a community once it has been brought in by one sector of the community such as[...]
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On This Day | Conservation Supported By Ranchers
Good grassland management, good water, added border establishment, good livestock water and good livestock quality cattle. Green Needlegrass are a few of the good conservation grasses for this area. Native species of abundant wildlife is getting more essential for our increased outdoor[...]
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On This Day | State Fair is Officially Minot’s
After months of study and deliberation, the Board of Directors of the North Dakota Agricultural Society made public Monday morning their decision to recommend Minot as the site of North Dakota’s first state fair in 1966. The decision of the board of[...]
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On Jane Austen’s Remarkable Endurance
Two hundred and fifty years after her birth, Jane Austen still commands an audience few writers ever achieve. Loved by readers who may never touch Milton or Wordsworth, she remains endlessly debated, adapted, and reread. And to mark the occasion of her[...]
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6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong
Roughly 1 in 5 Americans live in rural areas – places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density. Yet many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Media and political conversations often use words or terms such as[...]
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On This Day | The New B-52s are Coming!
The 4136th Strategic Wing at Minot Air Force Base is one of the first of six SAC units programmed to receive the advanced model of the B-52 Stratofortress, the B-52H, capable of carrying the [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Debate Makes Front Page
Minot High School’s debate squad took third place in overall speaker points and wins at the Fourth Annual Little National Debate Tournament in South St. Paul, Minn., Friday and Saturday. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Debate Makes Front Page
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On This Day | Gathering From the Prairie
This plant is a member of the pea family and has five leaflets on each leaf. The rounded or oblong part of the root becomes an inch or more in diameter. It has a [...]Read More... from On This Day | Gathering[...]
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On This Day | The Parable of Nick and Sam
Way out in the old, old West, a couple of ranchers named Nick and Sam kept having troubles over cattle, water rights and homesteaders. This led to harsh words and preparation for the inevitable [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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What 38 million obituaries reveal about how Americans define a ‘life well lived’
Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the values each era chose to honor. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we analyzed 38[...]
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Dakota Gardener: The houseplant you didn’t know you needed — Growing rosemary indoors
Rosemary is one of my favorite herbs. It tastes, smells and looks good. This woody shrub is great for outdoor herb gardens. Able to withstand periods of high heat and drought, it is one of the easier plants to grow. Rosemary also[...]
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On This Day | A Powerful Reminder
A red bulb or shade in this instance, will be placed on the 18 story Christmas Tree with each traffic death recorded in North Dakota. The "Let's Keep Our Christmas Tree Green" campaign starts [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]