It can be easy to forget how much progress we’ve made when things are happening so quickly. I was reminded of that when I read a Letter to the Editor a few weeks back about Blu on Broadway. This private/public project went from concept to a prominent skyline feature on South Broadway in ...

Yankee catcher Yogi Berra was known for his succinct observations; especially well-known is his comment about a baseball game when he noted that “it isn’t over ‘til it’s over.” He saw too many batters hit home runs in the last inning after the fans left in the seventh only to read ...

After one week in first grade, my daughter came home with a conclusion about life: “Life is hard and then you die.” She had homework. Fast forward that through job losses, divorces, chronic ailments and famiy tragedies for 60 years and we are on the cusp of old age. She was right. We have ...

It’s time for some spring cleaning - literally and figuratively. First, the easy parts. The City of Minot’s annual spring clean up week is fast approaching. The 2021 event is scheduled for May 3-7, with the household hazardous waste collection event to be held on May 7-8 at the Public ...

Just over a year ago the COVID-19 global health pandemic began the public health and economic crisis that infected almost 30 million people in the U. S. alone and took over 540,000 American lives. In North Dakota over 100,000 of our just 762,062 population were infected and 1466 fellow North ...

ust when the legislature was ready to break open the $8 billion Legacy Fund egg, an organization called WalletHub came out with a study that demeaned North Dakota’s ability to innovate, perhaps suggesting that we weren’t a very good opportunity for major venture capital investment after ...