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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Playing Asteroids in real life
Quick, how much energy was unleashed when fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet slammed into Jupiter in 1994? The City Beat must’ve spent an hour obsessing over that while writing about Vishnu Reddy, UND Aerospace’s first doctoral graduate. How hard … Continue reading
Tagged higher education, science, UND, und aerospace
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Encouraging new growth around Alerus Center
The City Beat finally got around to writing about the proposed property owners’ group out at Grand Forks’ Alerus Center this weekend. The events center’s executive director, Steve Hyman, you’ll recall, talked about how important it is to him to … Continue reading
High five times infinity!
YES!! The City Beat totally digs ABBA. As does John McCain, maverick senator, presidential candidate and war-frickin’-hero. Yeah, that guy who spent five years giving the Vietcong the finger. Nobody joke about "Dancing Queen." So, in honor of Sen. McCain’s … Continue reading
Tagged frivolous links
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Lots of big stakes in nickname debate
Now that the City Beat is playing catch up, let’s talk a little about last week’s court hearing on the Fighting Sioux nickname. Briefly, nickname supporters from the Spirit Lake Dakotah Nation are suing the state, more specifically, the State … Continue reading
2 a day
My only excuse for not blogging more is I was actually more productive last week than I have been in a while: 15 stories in all from Dec. 6 to Dec. 12. You can only kick so much butt and … Continue reading
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13-headed monster heading the Alerus Center’s way
Grand Forks’ Alerus Center task force is meeting in a few hours to figure out if there’s anything wrong with the building and how it’s run. I mentioned before the bizarre size of this task force, which has 13 members. … Continue reading
New numbers for the Alerus Center
Shortly after the City Beat wrote the story about the less-than-public meetings at the Alerus Center commission, I heard from commission Chairman Curt Kreun. We yelled at each other a bit — just for giggles — and had a good … Continue reading
More research dollars at UND
UND’s research office released its annual economic impact statement this week and, as in most years, the impact has increased because the university has gotten more funding for research. That’s "sponsored research," meaning it’s paid for by someone else, mostly … Continue reading
Tagged budgets and taxes, economic development, higher education, research, UND
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Cirrus Design stalls in 2009
The City Beat was surprised last night by the big presentation from Cirrus Design, a once and future major employer in Grand Forks, in front of the Jobs Development Authority. I thought from the potential closed-door meeting that this would … Continue reading
The one thing you don’t satirize
Hi readers. Sorry for the silence. The City Beat has been busy with some extracurricular activities and haven’t quite been able to update the blog. So, on the first blog post since last week, I’m gonna talk about date rape. … Continue reading
Tagged Crime and courts, higher education, media, UND
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