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Editorials

Trinity’s new campus boon to Minot and region

The long awaited time has arrived for the new Trinity Health medical campus hospital in southwest Minot to open next week. Opening of the new state-of-the-art hospital and later the medical office building will be a boon to Minot and this region. Good healthcare and a facility to most ...

Progress good measure of local developments

Progress means moving forward toward an end goal or making things better or more advanced. If something is in progress, it is happening or being done now. Twenty-eight years ago, in 1995, The Minot Daily News began publishing an annual Progress edition and have continued ever since. This ...

Views of all are valuable to process

The Minot City Council recently decided to reconfigure four lanes of Fourth Avenue Northwest between Broadway and 26th Street, creating one lane in each direction. There would be a center turn lane and bike lanes along the shoulders. This plan follows changes made earlier on 16th Street from ...

Minot AFB mission remains strong, ongoing

This past Monday the commander of 8th Air Force, Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Gebara, announced in a news release issued by Air Force Global Strike Command’s Office of Public Affairs that two commanders and four subordinate leaders at Minot Air Force Base were relieved of their duties “due to a loss ...

City parking ramps’ plan needs to be fair to everyone

Some business owners in downtown Minot are concerned the Minot City Council has voted to offer free parking in the Renaissance ramp when city employees move into the nearby new city hall in April. Those who park in the other downtown ramp, the Central ramp, will continue to pay for their ...

North Dakotans need to be always on guard

When a Chinese spy balloon flew over the United States a few days ago, it followed a path not that far from North Dakota. A photographer in Billings, Montana, happened to see the balloon, took photos of it and posted them for people to see all over the country. It took a few days while the ...