North Dakota sits above the national average for districts participating in its Farm to School program and officials said local success reflects the state’s strong relationship with agriculture and how it is often linked to education. The Foundation for a Healthy North[...]
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Opinion: Americans must learn proper news education
In a country where news is never more than a swipe away, you’d expect Americans to be better informed than ever. Instead, the rise of algorithm-driven feeds and partisan outlets is steering many of us into narrow echo chambers that reward outrage[...]
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Port: An embarrassing display of impotence
North Dakota’s Republican Party is facing a rift of its own making, and District 6 has become the latest stage. Local leaders voted to censure Rep. Dick Anderson for opposing a symbolic resolution targeting same-sex marriage, but Anderson—censured once before and easily[...]
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Fedorchak: Time to fix the Unaffordable Care Act
Our health care system is broken, and North Dakotans know it. The law that was supposed to make things better — the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — has not lived up to its name. “If you like your plan, you can keep[...]
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Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
Algorithms may not meet in smoke-filled back rooms, but they’re increasingly shaping the prices we all pay—and sometimes in ways that look a lot like collusion. Researchers are finding that even ‘benign’ learning systems can nudge each other toward higher prices without[...]
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North Dakota investment board delays action on $1.3 million in employee bonuses
North Dakota’s State Investment Board hit pause Friday on a proposal to award more than $1.3 million in bonuses to staff who helped the state’s top funds beat their benchmarks by a wide margin. The payouts would be the first since lawmakers[...]
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On This Day | Know Your North Dakota
Also of lacustrine origin, the soil developed in the lake bed of glacial Lake Souris, ranks as the most productive and fertile in all the drift prairie region and would be considered another small [...]Read More... from On This Day | Know[...]
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On This Day | North Dakota Cheese
The Oakes cheese plant is the third in a series of cheese plants within North Dakota to announce new operations within the past year which were aided by the North Dakota Economic Development Commission. [...]Read More... from On This Day | North[...]
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On This Day | Local Advertising
For An Ideal Christmas Gift, George Reishus New Book "There Was A Time" NOW ON SALE AT THE WARD COUNTY INDEP. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Local Advertising
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On This Day | The Farm Bureau Supports…
American and the free nations left in the world face the most decisive moments in history. Never has freedom been more challenged. We, in the United States, must accept overwhelming responsibilities if we are [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | The Most Magnificent Institution
By and large, over the nation, the American educational system – its plant, its direction, its personnel and its students form collectively the most magnificent institution for human progress that the world has ever [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Tragedy on the Big Lake
Tragedy struck three Minot homes Monday when three men were drowned in the Snake Creek arm of the Garrison Reservoir. High winds up to 60 miles per hr. which hit the area swept up [...]Read More... from On This Day | Tragedy[...]
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On This Day | Winning at Making Ourselves Better
For the second year in a row, Minot was named winner of the Class “A” award in the North Dakota Community Betterment Contest, and was the only repeat winner. Minot’s projects for the 1960 [...]Read More... from On This Day | Winning[...]
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On This Day | A Partnership Emerges in Pictures
WHEN THE claxon sounds, there’s no waiting. Every second counts as crewmen sprint to waiting vehicles and race to their jobs getting SAC’s massive monsters positioned for retaliation. [...]Read More... from On This Day | A Partnership Emerges in Pictures
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On This Day | A Partnership Emerges
Ninety seconds of explosive action last Thursday proved the ability and readiness of the 4136th Strategic Wing alert crews to 25 Minot community leaders. The group headed by Mayor Maurice Harrington and City Manager [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]
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If History Repeats, At Least We’ll Be Surprised Again
I recently completed reading the book 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin. In October of 1929, the American stock market crashed and the Great Depression began. In 1929, the stock market was at an all-time high. Today, the stock market is again around[...]