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Census snapshot gives nuanced portrait of North Dakota
January 11, 2012
By MAXINE HERR For the Tribune At first glance, North Dakota appears to be gaining in population. The United States census shows the state boasting a 4.7 percent increase from 2000 to 2010 bringing the residents tally to 672, 591 — just short of the state’s peak population in 1930 of nearly 680,000. But dive [...]
Town Profile: West Fargo comes into its own
By MAXINE HERR For the Tribune West Fargo grabs the distinction of being the state’s fifth largest city after the 2010 census counted 25,830 residents in the booming town. It’s a huge leap from just under 15,000 residents a decade ago. “The numbers are staggering as you look at them, but we’ve worked hard as [...]
Editor’s notes: Taking the long view
By CATHRYN SPRYNCZYNATYK Bismarck Tribune If Business Watch is new to you in the Bismarck Tribune, allow me to introduce the publication. Business Watch has been in circulation more than eight years. It began as a subscription-based publication. Earlier this year, we decided to redesign Business Watch and bring it to a wider audience through [...]
Project Safe Send: 20 years of convenient and free contaminant disposal
By DEBORA DRAGSETH For the Tribune Take a look under your sink, storage shed or in the back corner of your garage. Any old rat poison or a rusty can of roach spray? A weed killer you vaguely remember buying sometime in the 1980s? Instead of wreaking havoc on the environment by pouring a dangerous [...]
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