If you're a regular reader, you know we touch often on infrastructure and what we view as an unsustainable development model. It's a problem that is much easier pointed out than solved. But we'll never solve it if our elected leaders don't[...]
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Mayoral Candidate Forum: Uncertain Times
We'll say it again in other words -- what comes next will not be the same as what came before. So autopilot isn't going to work. So we wanted to know what will be informing our next Mayor's decisions as we navigate[...]
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Mayoral Candidate Forum: No Barriers
The reality of city governance and politics in general in our country means advancing an agenda is not easy. So, we're hoping to help them unburden themselves from the barriers that hold back their ideas and invite them to consider what they[...]
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Mayoral Candidate Forum: Budget Realities
We baked a lot of assumptions into this question pie. The hope is to corner candidates into speaking to the realities of budgeting versus the rhetoric if budgeting, i.e. service expectations and costs only move one direction. [...]Read More... from Mayoral Candidate[...]
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Mayoral Candidate Forum: Vision for Minot
There are few things we need to know more than where our elected leaders imagine they'll lead us. We asked them to share what they see our future looking like. [...]Read More... from Mayoral Candidate Forum: Vision for Minot
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The Ward County Commission Election Process is Broken. Let’s Fix It!
It’s time to do away with the County Commission primary process completely. Because, what’s the point? What does it accomplish besides making it more expensive to run for office and confusing voters? [...]Read More... from The Ward County Commission Election Process is[...]
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I’d Rather See Them Make the Sausage!
Before you agreed to make an offer and start a negotiating process, you must have first become convinced that you wanted to make the offer at all, right? [...]Read More... from I’d Rather See Them Make the Sausage!
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This Level of Transparency Isn’t Good Enough For Me
On May 6th, at 4:49 p.m. at a Special City Council Meeting, Minot City Council entered what is known as an executive session to consider two agenda items. The one germane to this commentary is included here: 3. EXECUTIVE SESSION: POTENTIAL LAND[...]
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Is It Insanity That Drives Congressional Approval Ratings?
The present approval rating of Congress, especially the House of Representatives, has a well-deserved abysmal approval rating with the American public. For those who think this may be a modern phenomenon, let’s take a trip back in time to the 1840s. At[...]
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Minot State Hockey Faces Off Against Denver and Colorado College (Preview)
It’s a big weekend for Minot State hockey and the entire athletics program. The men’s hockey team has three ACHA national championships under its belt, and a reputation of success and high standards. But an argument could be made that the biggest[...]
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City Council Agenda, December 18, 2023
Minot’s City Council will meet tonight at 5:30 in the Council Chambers at City Hall. The following agenda will be considered. Minot City Council meetings are live-streamed through the City’s Youtube Channel found here. The meeting will consider the agenda attached below. Notable[...]
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Begrudgingly, I’m Recycling
Nuance Alert: If you see the world in clear cases of right and wrong, black and white, us and them, you’re going to be confused by what you read next. I color myself fully for the environment. Climate change is real, human[...]
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Weighing In for the Battle for Local Control
In 2024, North Dakota voters will probably vote whether or not to eliminate real estate property taxes. It looks like it will be a proxy war between the obvious factions within the North Dakota Republican party. Republicans in recent history have comprised[...]
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Burgum’s ND Values on the National Political Stage is Good For All Of Us
I lived in the South. I learned an important lesson there. Before doing something stupid that may end up either horrific or just entertaining, you have to say, “y’all hold my beer and watch this.” Consider it said. Let’s get to it.[...]
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10 things to know about how social media affects teens’ brains
Kids today are among the first generation of humans to grow up with social media as a dominant factor in their lives. After hundreds of thousands of years of evolving and adapting to the natural world, we’re now dealing with the challenges[...]
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House Passes Raw Milk Bill
The ND House delivered a win to food freedom advocates Monday. House Bill 1515 allows dairy farms to sell raw, unpasteurized milk straight off the farm, but restrict dairies from selling raw product to grocery stores or wholesalers. The bill passed by[...]