Most of the American military personnel who were sent to help with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will be back home by April 30, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. And the belief at this time is that the crisis in Liberia and Senegal has been contained.
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If you take music and add theater and talent, Mucca Pazza is one of the outcomes. From the ‘About’ page for the group, “MUCCA PAZZA was born in a steel mill parking lot along the Chicago river. Combining marching band traditions and street theater experience with rock band sensibilities.” Learn more about the group here.
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Know anyone with a small oil-field service company? This article from NPR delivers a dose of financial common sense from a small business owner and oil industry survivor in Texas.
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Shake Shack’s IPO was Friday and investors scooped up stock for the Manhattan-based burger chain driving the price up well beyond the forecast. With the early money betting hungry customers will follow, it’s a single event that illustrates broader changes taking place in the fast-food business.
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If we can turn sewage into drinking water and then into beer, it begs the question — why are we pumping our used fracking water underground? 😀
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A handful U.S. craft brewers are reviving an age-old way of making beer that was practically unthinkable a decade ago.
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For those of you that have a little Cliff Clavin inside, here’s one of those little known facts explained in an entertaining, animated video produced by NPR.
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In spite of some bad information about the oil price required to support drilling (the $80 price per barrel is just wrong), there’s a human side to this story that’s worth a listen.
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How many times has that title been written? That said, technology is finally reaching thresholds for user friendliness and easy adoption that are likely to bring converts to new ideas. Here’s one integrated classroom to learn from.
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When farms and ranches over fertilize, rain carries the unabsorbed fertilizer into the watershed. And according the City of Des Moines, those added nitrates in water pose a health risk and add costs to water treatment.
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One of the goals of The Minot Voice is to help you cut the chord, so these stories will be common. The thinking… better news and information will help us make everything better, but it starts with cutting out the crap.
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Martin Pistorius spent more than a decade unable to move or communicate, fearing he would be alone, trapped, forever. NPR’s new show Invisibilia tells how his mind helped him create a new life.
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You’ve probably never heard of Trey, but he’s the front man for one of the most enduring tour acts of the last 30 years. With over 1500 shows performed and tours that have grossed more than $100 million, Phish has developed one of the most loyal fan bases of all time and regularly sells out
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Ebola has been mostly out of the news for a while now, but it hasn’t gone away. Dr. Ian Crozier was one of the first patients air evacuated from West Africa, and the disease almost got him. Here’s his story.
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The story of how on the Christmas Eve, 1914, in the midst of trenches of World War I, a truce was called.
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If you’re new to the area, lefse is one of those things you need to seek out and try… not because it’s the most amazing food you’ll ever eat, but simply because it is who we are. You can’t know North Dakota unless you try lefse.
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