MINOT, ND – Ticket sales for the Black Eyed Peas September 3rd benefit concert in Minot topped 4,000 in the first two hours of “presales” yesterday, and Minot Area Community Foundation President Ken Kitzman said he anticipates a quick sell-out once public sales start on August 12. Most of the reserved seating tickets are already [...]
MINOT, ND – Jim Olson, a KXMC TV reporter out of Minot, has taken the time to examine water release levels at three primary dams feeding waters into the Souris (Mouse) River, and has put forth a theory that Minot’s catastrophic flooding this June could have been averted by the Corps taking a more interactive [...]
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BISMARCK, ND – Among those displaced by the flooding Missouri are North Dakota Senator John Hoeven and his wife Mikey. Two days before their daughter’s wedding, with family and friends on the way in from out of town, the Hoevens found themselves moving everything out of their new home, having just moved in six months [...]
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MINOT, ND – “The discussions in DC on the budget have not affected our decision-making through this process,” Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters at a press conference in Minot today. “The decision making is based on what we see, what we learn, and on the law.” However, Napolitano admitted that a budget will be necessary [...]
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MINOT, ND – Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, visited Minot, North Dakota today to survey damages from the historic flood and to visit with local and state officials. “We want to make sure that we are giving the full court press here,” said Napolitano, “the full court press on grants for temporary housing and [...]
BISMARCK, ND – North Dakota farmers are facing an estimated $1.1 billion loss in total revenues as the result of acres that could not be planted this year due to flooding. According to an analysis performed by North Dakota State University’s Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, the estimate is based on the market value [...]
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BISMARCK, ND – With the height of the emergency flood crisis past, the record number of homes inundated with flood waters across the state continues to climb and displaced homeowners find themselves struggling with when, how, and if they will be able to rebuild. Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm’s office has put together a large amount [...]
MINOT, ND – This week in Minot, in some areas entire streets have houses filled up to their rooftops with flood waters, and that is the first vastly significant difference ND National Guard Maj. Gen. Murray Sagsveen noted between Minot’s current flood and the Grand Forks flood of 1997. Although both floods affected a similar [...]
BISMARCK, ND – “I just wanted him to be convinced that we’ve had a disaster of that magnitude,” Governor Jack Dalrymple told Scott Hennen this afternoon. “I thought the simplest thing in the world be to have him just come and take a look at Minot, but maybe that’s not how you go about that,” [...]
GRAND FORKS, ND – President Obama should have stopped in North Dakota yesterday to see the disasters in Minot and Bismarck, fulfilling his current duties as President, rather than spending all of his travel time campaigning in Iowa, according to 2012 Presidential Candidate and Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty on the Scott Hennen radio show [...]