Our place in the world and current circumstance creates a set of challenges unique to Minot. We’ll seek out the content, practices, ideas, which are most relevant to the opportunities in front of us while elevating those things that enforce our unique past and sense of place. Because what’s good for Minot will be good for everyone in Minot.
The thing about winter on the plains, you’ve got to get a little creative to have fun outside. Well, that’s what they did in Duluth anyway. Words cannot tell the story better than the video below. Watch and feel free to weigh in with a comment — insane or insanely fun?
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Francis Berg has been documenting the Hettinger’s history for decades, but recently she compiled the era of the last great buffalo hunts into a self-guided driving tour designed to pull people off the Interstate and invite them to explore the areas unique history. Is there an idea for Minot somewhere inside of this story?
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Frustrated by contractors who seemingly never completed work on time, the City of Fargo has begun building both bonus and penalty incentives into the city’s construction contracts. Get done early, get paid more. Get done late, get paid less. Call it the carrot and the stick method if you want, but early results in Fargo
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The City of Winnipeg is going through the process of reviewing its form of government and the manner in which it wants its elected officials to operate. They’ve identified problems, they are setting goals, and they’re going to take the next four months to work through ideas to see if they deliver outcomes. It’s a
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After a successful season last winter, the Downtown Community Partnership in Fargo has made plans to re-open a downtown skating rink for three more winters. For the 2015-16 season, the rink attracted about 30 skaters per day.
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Red Wing is a small town of 16,000 on the banks of the big river, but the community has developed a varied and eclectic arts scene that is proving to be a boon residents and businesses alike. The cover image above by Marianne Combs of MPR is the Red Wing Depot, home to the Red Wing Arts
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The Minot Leadership Summit kicked off its initiative of getting young people involved in the community and spurring discussions on the direction of Minot. KX News has more on the purpose and outcome.
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Last fall I published an idea for Minot developed by the team at Ackerman Estvold; it was an engineering solution to open up the river and restore active water flow to the long-abandoned dead loops. The plan also called for the removal of the cofferdams, the permanent structures that cross the river channel and create
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#MakeMinot, the committee behind the initiative to reform the size and make-up of Minot’s City Council, issued a news release this morning offering a compromise reform plan and timeline. The full news release including the plan follows below. The list of questions submitted to the city referenced in the first paragraph can be read here.
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The #MakeMinot committee working to see the issue of City Council reform in Minot voted by the citizens issued a news release that includes an open letter and group of questions directed to City of Minot officials. The background information and letter follow. Links provide access to supporting documents. Background: At a City Council meeting
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What you’re about to read is an argument for change. It’s an argument for changing an entrenched mindset. It’s an argument for changing an entrenched business model. And it’s an argument for changing some seriously entrenched laws. Most importantly, it’s an argument about beer. But before I get to the actual arguing, I’d like to
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It’s a fun morning when a great idea for Minot ends up in my inbox. Today is one of those days. This idea comes from the team at Ackerman Estvold Engineering, and it’s a solution to the problem of the dead loops and goal of making the Mouse River a point of community pride. And
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With the approval earlier this month of another $2.5 million in MAGIC Fund dollars for Minot’s downtown parking garages, I can’t help asking the questions — are we spending those dollars in the right way, and should we be spending them at all? The need to complete the structures notwithstanding — because we do need
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George Costanza called it ‘frolf’. For most, the activity that involves a casual walk in the park accompanied by throwing a frisbee towards a basket of hanging chains is known as frisbee golf or disc golf. It’s fun, it’s affordable, it’s exercise outdoors, and it can be casual or competitive. And for two Minot residents,
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During our first event in 2013, TEDxMinot welcomed Ryan Ackerman of Ackerman Estvold Engineering to share his role during and after the 2011 flood. Ryan’s talk delivers the facts of that momentous event, but also the elements that make us human—the raw emotions of loss. Such emotions emerge from a passion for the people and places
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It was a full agenda at last Wednesday’s Park Board meeting. Get the full rundown below. Radio City Park & Splash Pad Gets the Go Ahead Park Board members voted unanimously to move ahead with the ~$1.8 million renovation of Radio City Park in Southeast Minot. The plans include a splash pad similar to what’s
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