The challenges and methods for dealing with those challenges of cities across the region is strikingly similar. Job creation and economic growth are challenges that nearly every smaller community deals with, and in Crookston, MN, they’ve been managing those efforts from two[...]
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Half of Well Productivity Gains May be Due to Core Acreage Drilling, Not Better Frac Designs
There’s little doubt those operating in the Bakken have gotten more efficient in the past few years. The low prices have forced operators to get costs under control and the end result is an oil play that’s more economically resilient. But what[...]
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ND’s top correction officer looks to Norway for new solutions to old problems
In our country and more and more in our state, we put people in jail. For a long time, we’ve viewed incarceration as the only solution to the problem of criminal activity and recidivism. But is it? More importantly, is there a[...]
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Winging it on a prayer: churches are trying new ways to attract young followers
There’s a lot in flux right now in our country — our economy, our political spectrum, the technology that shapes our daily lives — all of it is changing. And so are our churches; those that are growing are finding new ways[...]
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What’s a ‘Pop Up City Hall’? Popsicles, an umbrella and a Grand Forks official
Back on July 16, the City of Minot threw itself a birthday party. You may not have known we just turned 130. It was a great event for many reasons, but perhaps most significantly for the way it made city officials and[...]
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Stretch of Mississippi River in and around St. Cloud sheds its sullied history
For one city in Minnesota, the Mississippi River was just a water pathway that flowed through town. It was the place they dumped their sewage; it was the home of meat-packing plants that sent their environmental impacts downstream. They stopped the environmental[...]
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Growing cities take proactive stance against diverse threats, building resilience
When it comes to resilience, it’s not just about being prepared. It’s about building stronger cities that deliver a higher quality of life and more economic diversity. Sound familiar? Minot is in the middle of an enormous resiliency effort made possible by $74.3[...]
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Winnipeg economic development agency holding Railside Promenade ideas competition
In Winnipeg, The Forks Renewal Corporation, the city’s economic development agency, is looking to spur redevelopment in a neighborhood dominated by wide roads and parking lots. And how are they going about doing it? They’re holding a design competition. They’ve set basic[...]
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Tips for running a successful capital campaign
The Roosevelt Park Zoo, the Magic City Discovery Center, and the Souris Valley Animal Shelter are three local organizations with capital campaigns either underway or soon to get started. The success of those campaigns and the projects they intend to deliver would[...]
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A New School Model Helps Rural Districts Boost Enrollment and Ensure Student Success
The challenges that come with delivering a high-quality education in a rural setting are real. Too often in our small towns, teachers and administrators are forced to continue delivering a high level of services amid a climate of declining resources. What’s the[...]
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A Toxic Legacy: North Dakota Looks To Clean Up Old Oilfield Waste
One of the considerable by-products of oil production in North Dakota is the extremely salty wastewater we get back along with the oil. It’s not a new problem. And though modern practices inject wastewater deep underground, there are still a number of[...]
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Let’s get started on rail relocation
One of the reasons The Minot Voice focuses on news from other areas is because it’s rare that a community like Minot confronts a wholly new and unique problem. Whatever our challenge, and we have plenty, there are good odds that some[...]
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Fargo employers discuss ways to keep employee gatherings relevant and effective
Kill the meeting! Well, not completely, but Fargo employers are adapting to new ways of thinking and one of the old ideas that’s slowly going the way of the dodo bird — staff get-togethers. It turns out that meeting for meeting sake[...]
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Paddlers promote ‘positive trace ethic’ by cleaning up litter along Minnesota, St. Croix and Mississippi rivers
The old mantra for the environmentally minded heading into the wilderness was, “take only pictures, leave only footprints”. But for a few, it seems that’s not good enough. The concept is called adventure stewardship, and the goal is to go out and[...]
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The Netherlands, always vulnerable to floods, has a new approach to water management
Most of Netherlands is no more than a few feet above sea level, and they’ve suffered major floods many times throught the past hundred years. Sound familiar? They’re approach and experience with flood protection is worth noting as we move along here[...]
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First tech, now financing: U.S. shale firms get creative to pump more oil
Necessity is the mother of invention, and we’ve experienced that first hand here in the North Dakota oil patch. The necessity was to survive an OPEC supply assault intended to force shale operators out of the market with lower prices. The invention[...]