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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 efficiently deliver those services are so important to patients and their families. Minot’s new hospital has been planned and designed throughout to give more space, more patient privacy and a better service delivery. This new facility is a necessary tool to carry out high-level healthcare in ...

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 is a special section of multiple pages covering the progress of government, other entities and organizations including businesses and individuals in Minot and area communities. The first two sections of 2023 Progress are included in today’s print and All-Access online edition of The Minot ...

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 Fourth Avenue Northwest to Second Avenue Southeast. Reading about the newest plan for Fourth Avenue Northwest in The Minot Daily News, a number of residents voiced their opinions about it through our Facebook page. Some pointed out they thought it would be a good idea for pedestrians and ...

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 of confidence in their ability to complete their assigned duties.” These are not easy decisions for higher level commanders to remove military members from their positions in their units. Many learning of the removals immediately wondered what was the cause. Later this past week it was ...

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 parking there. All this is not sitting well with downtown business owners who are concerned that one ramp will be free and the other ramp will have a charge for parking. Although downtown business owners say they are happy the city employees are moving to downtown, one owner pointed out both ramps ...

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 balloon traveled across the country before the president gave the order to shoot down the balloon. There should be great concern across this country about incidents like this occurring. North Dakotans need to be concerned as well. Was this balloon able to conduct any surveillance of North ...