The community-minded folks at the Minot Public Library are making some noise for a new idea focused on gathering new ideas. The video below is a minute long and it tells the story of everything you need to know about where to[...]
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A Detailed Look at Engineering Floodwalls and Removable Openings
Following last month’s City Council discussion and vote to add an opening in the Phase 1 floodwall at the Anne Street Bridge, I followed up with SRJB Project Administrator Ryan Ackerman regarding several topics that came out in that debate. Most notably,[...]
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What if they’re wrong?
Minot’s a small town in a slow economic time, and the City’s contracts for roads and sewers and flood protection are the fattest ones around. And the two most powerful people in town when comes to delivering those professional services contracts to[...]
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When are we going to start to listening to citizens?
Bias at the top. I’m a regular user of the Ann Street Bridge. I support the opening proposed by Alderman Straight. And the bridge has been a recent topic here on The Minot Voice. If you want to catch up on the[...]
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City Council should have to approve flood protection designs
Bias at the top. I’m a regular user of the Ann Street Bridge. I support the opening proposed by Alderman Straight. And the bridge has been a recent topic here on The Minot Voice. If you want to catch up on the[...]
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Misinformation on social media: Can technology save us?
Information is both the currency and lubricant that moves the world forward. But as we find ourselves in the Information Age’s period of juvenile delinquency, the challenge in filtering out the bad information and raising the good information to the top is[...]
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Better Government? Why citizen input is crucial to the government design process
GovLab’s mission is to improve people’s lives by changing the way we govern. And in one of there recent articles, they key on the critical need for citizen input in developing the design of applications and solutions. The quote below was in[...]
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Leaner and meaner: US shale greater threat to OPEC after oil price war
With news that OPEC has an agreement with member countries and Russia to reduce output, the conversation in North Dakota will shift to how did we come through this down cycle in the industry? And a couple reporters from Reuters have the[...]
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Grand Forks: Transportation survey could make case for Uber, Lyft in Grand Forks
Grand Forks is going to consider allowing app-driven ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft into town, but first they’re going to gather data from the citizens — and specifically UND students — to see if they can determine how people are[...]
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Hate crimes on the rise? A complete guide to the data
Since the election, there have been numerous incidents of hate crimes and race-based invective in the news. But are these incidents on the rise? Anecdotally, it sure seems that way but it is a difficult question to answer definitively because there is relatively[...]
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WORTH A LOOK: How to survive a fall through the ice
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources put together a helpful graphic that tells us when it’s safe to be on the ice. Brad Dokken followed it up with some tips that may save your life if you’re on the ice and the[...]
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How to make the perfect mashed potatoes, according to science
Science is the method by which progressional learning takes place. We theorize about the effect of a particular action, test whether it’s true, evaluate the results, and repeat the process. And that scientific method has now been applied to what was previously[...]
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Editorial: Lessons learned from Grand Forks’ sales-tax vote
In the Eastern part of the state, there were sales tax initiatives on the ballot in both Fargo and Grand Forks. One of them earned voter approval, one didn’t. In this editorial, the Grand Forks Herald staff step back and look at[...]
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Facebook Shouldn’t Bother Policing Fake News—It Should Go Local Instead
Whatever your place on the political spectrum — left, right, or indifferent — we can almost all agree that the national news is broken. Facebook is trying to ‘fix’ the news by eliminating fake news, but there are a few of us[...]
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Idea for Minot? Fargo contractors get stick and carrot from city to get roads done early
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[...]
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ND teacher talks on technology in education at Twitter headquarters
Kayla Delzer, A 3rd-grade teacher in Mapleton, is taking tech integration to new places in teaching, and for her efforts, she was invited to speak at a Digital Citizenship Summit at Twitter headquarters in San Fransisco. Here’s the quote you should remember[...]