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Downtown Minot partnership with NDSU is win for all

Architectural students from North Dakota State University were in Minot this past week to learn about the community’s downtown vision prior to their development of an urban design plan to be unveiled May 3. Who better to design the future than the young people who will be the generation of the future? The project is a win-win for both Minot and the NDSU students. While students get hands-on learning, Minot benefits from fresh, creative eyes looking at the downtown and re-imagining how it could look. No doubt it will provide some direction to downtown organizations and businesses as ...

Happy New Year to all in 2023

Whether 2022, was the greatest year or the worst, we can all attest to personally experiencing one or both in the past years. Reflections on what we are leaving behind in 2022 and what possibilities that lie ahead for 2023 may leave us feeling melancholy, maybe even depressed. When dealing with saying goodbye, some of us are hesitant and find it sad to move forward. Some of us are glad to be moving toward the new and unknown. The classic song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” made famous by Judy Garland in the film “Meet Me in St. Louis,” offers a great deal of ...

Investment in transmission is investment in reliability

States that rely on renewable energy sources are seeing more investments than ever before, boosting local and statewide economies. With a rich history as an energy leader, North Dakota can look to clean power to help strengthen our state’s energy industry and increase the reliability of the grid. Recent extreme weather events have taught us important lessons. Renewable energy plays an important part in the reliability of the grid, performing very well in the 2021 extreme weather event that knocked out power to Texas. North Dakota wind energy fared even better than fossil fuel ...

Thanksgiving: A day for togetherness, gratitude

s we approach Thanksgiving Day, let us think about the meaning of this day. Originally, Thanksgiving was a day to give thanks for the harvest of the previous year. It has evolved to a day for gatherings of family and friends to give thanks and express our gratitude for our blessings. Over the years The Minot Daily News has provided to its readers messages about this special day. In a Thanksgiving message published 50 years ago in November 1972, it said: “Thanksgiving Day is many things ... family reunions, church services, football games on television, turkey dinner, afternoon ...

Casting your ballot in midterms important

The midterm election set for Tuesday, Nov. 8, might be one of the most important elections or even the most important election in this nation’s history. If you are dissatisfied with the economy, crime and other issues, this is your opportunity to make a difference and vote for those candidates you feel will be the best to make a difference in this country. If you are satisfied with how the nation is being run, you can vote for those candidates to step into that role or continue. Besides the candidates on the ballot, North Dakotans will vote on two statewide measures that were ...

Critical time for nation, military members

Sixty years ago today, North Dakotans and all of the nation heard President John F. Kennedy inform the country in a televised address of the presence of missile sites in Cuba. For 35 days the Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The U.S. put a naval blockade in place around Cuba and the tensions mounted. The world wondered if there would be a peaceful resolution to the crisis. It was a time when Minot Air Force Base was in its early years, and personnel there were called upon to respond to ...