A couple of years ago I brought a car back from Florida. I used the trip as an opportunity to see how Minot measured up. I wanted to see how we compared to other places. I didn’t have a lot of time,[...]
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Value: Careful Progress
Progress is not a dirty word, but how we define and go about achieving it are worthy of a debate. If you become a regular reader, you’ll find a steady diet of stories about new approaches to old problems and disdain for the “because that’s the way we’ve always done it” defense.
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City Presents Comprehensive Plan at Open House
The City of Minot has been working on its 2040 Comprehensive Plan for the past year. It’s a significant document that will inform decisions and the direction of the community for many years. And on Wednesday, the public got a chance to[...]
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State Legislature a step closer to Stripping Fargo of Local Control Over Voting
For the past several election cycles, Fargo has had a unique challenge — lots of candidates. It resulted in elections being won with small percentages of votes. To address the issue, the City switched to ‘approval voting’; it’s a system whereby voters[...]
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Air Force declares Grand Forks Fufeng project ‘significant threat’
The proposed corn milling project in Grand Forks by Chinese-owned Fufeng Group is dead. The U.S. Air Force has made it clear they view the project as a threat to national security. Senator Hoeven and Senator Cramer issued the following joint statement:[...]
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Western North Dakota area is officially Homesteader’s Gap
If you saw it on a map before Thursday, it would have been called Squaw Gap. Today, it’s called Homesteader’s Gap. It’s a small, unincorporated place South of Williston, and it’s at the forefront of reconsidered thinking when it comes to what[...]
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Our little town just became a Metropolitan Planning Area
The magic number in the Magic City has long been 50,000. That’s how many people we wanted here; it opens the door to forming a Metropolitan Planning Organization, which in turn opens other doors to dollars and planning. Well, we made it.[...]
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North Dakota lawmakers look to boost immigration as labor shortage hampers economy
North Dakota is short of workers. You don’t need the news to tell you, step into any local business or restaurant and you’re likely to experience it firsthand. But what can lawmakers do about the problem? Well, Tim Mattern, a Fargo-area Democrat[...]