Learn: How to Put a Divided Country Back Together

Have you been wondering where the country heads after the most divisive election in recent history? Have you wondered if we really can put everything back together? We can, and there is a scientifically proven method for doing it. Quartz has the story.

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Learn: How to Make Your Voice Rise Above the Noise

Have you ever wondered how to make your voice heard by your elected officials? Congressional representatives serve huge districts and vast populations. Constituents reach out to them on a regular basis, but not all messages are heard equally. Here are a series of tips from one former congressional office insider on how to make sure

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Election Perspective: Racist sign left at MSU Moorhead dorm

MSU Moorhead is investigating an ugly incident involving overt racism. Is this part of the Trump-effect? Did Mr. Trump’s campaign and election embolden those among us who are actually racist, who are actually deplorable? If so, we are all going to have to set an example making it clear that this behavior is not acceptable.

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Watch & Listen: Guns N Roses November Rain Like You’ve Never Heard it

The band is called Steve’N’Seagulls and they’re a regular feature on The Minot Voice because of their Scandinavian heritage, musicianship, and the alternative style arrangements they bring to the songs they choose to cover.

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Survey: How Will You Spend Election Night?

Just think, 20 years from now we’ll all be able to look back on the 2016 election and tell youngsters all about what politics used to be like. And if this is the election for the ages, then we want to know how you’re going to spend it. And hey, if you can’t laugh, you

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It’s Time to Think About Living in Parking Garages

The next twenty years are going bring forth dramatic changes to the way we live our lives. Of most note is the likely diminished role private vehicle ownership will have. This commentary from Wired challenges us to start thinking about the way we design our communities as a result of these inevitable transitions.

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New evidence of Viking life in America?

A new discovery has revealed that the Vikings may have travelled hundreds of miles further into North America than previously thought. And the manner in which the discovery was made may surprise you.

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How Corporations Will Use Artificial Empathy to Sell Us More Stuff

If you have any lingering notion that advertising and marketing –on the corporate scale — has anything to do with art and gimmicks, this article will put it to rest. In today’s world, selling is a science, so it’s important to know how marketers are using it to guide your behavior.

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Learn: How not to text like a passive-aggressive

Text messaging, particularly to those you don’t know well, is filled with nuance, subtext, and hidden meaning. We’d all be better off if we didn’t read more into texts than are there, but knowing how our messages are getting misinterpreted is helpful.

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Oil patch sees exodus of retirees

The rise in population and community turbulence from growth in the oil patch created a problem few foresaw– out-migration of retirees. Lauran Donovan has the story on a trend that’s changing the fabric of many small towns.

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Tesla Preparing To Charge Into Affordable Car Market

Electric car maker Tesla is not yet a profitable company, but it will be taking a step this spring to help it get closer. The long-promised Model 3 will debut in March and will be sold for $35,000.

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Hallock Distillery Expands Distribution Network

A craft distillery located outside Fargo is growing quickly enough to expand distribution well outside the region. Far North Spirits, boutique distillers of whiskey, rum, gin, and vodka has expanded their distribution network to include California.

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Vodka made from Red River Valley sugar beets Debuts in Twin Cities

Creative entrepreneurs in the eastern part of the state are starting to catch on to the opportunity in adding value to our homegrown agricultural products and converting them to spirits and beer. Here’s one of their stories.

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Why Electric Cars Are Ditching AM Radio

The electric car revolution seems somewhat inevitable at this point. Environmental concerns as well as the need for energy efficiency will guide us there. And that cultural shift will have implications for the prairie’s still relevant AM radio business.

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Organization Ranks Minot in Municipal Equality Index

Last year, the legislature rejected a bill that banned discrimination based on sexual orientation. That action left cities the option of making their own laws, and a few have done just that. But Minot is not among them.  

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Journalists piss people off so you don’t have to

As a young journalist for the Grand Forks Herald, Anna Burleson has reached the conclusion that her job not only matters, it makes your life easier too. And in order to do it well, she has to occasionally rub some people the wrong way.

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