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By Guest / July 1, 2013 / Bismarck News, Mandan News, Sports / No Comments
~by Corey Wickham~ After years of no adult summer baseball in the Bismarck-Mandan area Amateur Baseball games are once again being played in the capital city. This however is no easy task. I have tried managing my own amateur team in Mandan but due to organizational reasons, getting legit player commitments, and field accessibility […]
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By Wayne Papke / June 3, 2013 / Mandan News, Opinion / 1 Comment
I have a story to share which will illustrate the need for measures to be enacted which will hold the school boards and city commissions of local governments accountable to public input and the subsequent actions of States Attorneys as well as the North Dakota Attorney General. The negligence of these entities has left us […]
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By Dustin Gawrylow / June 3, 2013 / In Print, Mandan News, News, Top Stories / No Comments
At its May 21st, 2013 meeting, the Mandan City Commission took swift action to head off a new state law that would restrict many discretionary property tax exemptions that Mandan has in the past approved. ~(Note: In the May 2013 issue of the Great Plains Examiner our Page 7 story outlined the changes to local […]
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By Dustin Gawrylow / May 7, 2013 / In Print, Mandan News, State Politics, Top Stories / No Comments
The state legislature has responded to what many feel was a massive give-away by the Mandan City Commission when it granted Walmart a $403,000 property tax exemption over five years. Senate Bill 2314 requires that cities with populations under 40,000 be required to ask voters on the November 2014 ballot whether the city commission of […]
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By Dustin Gawrylow / April 1, 2013 / Bismarck News, Mandan News, Top Stories / No Comments
THERE’S NOTHING TO DO IN BISMARCK! How many thousands of times have you heard or said that? The good news is, there is someone trying to fix that, and they aren’t using public money to do it! Organized Noise Entertainment (O.N.E.) setup shop in Mandan last year at the old Mysteria Theatre, and has already […]
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By Dustin Gawrylow / January 8, 2013 / Mandan News, Top Stories / No Comments
On December 18th, the Mandan City Commission met to discuss changes to the city’s policies related to discretionary property tax exemptions granted to new businesses. The need for creating a written policy has been known and discussed for some time, however the recent approval of a $403,000 tax exemption (over five years) for Wal-Mart. The […]
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By Matt Bunk / November 10, 2012 / Business, Mandan News, News / 2 Comments
Young Entrepreneurs This story is part of a series by the Great Plains Examiner that highlights young entrepreneurs in North Dakota. Each of the business owners profiled in this series is younger than 40. A lot of people tell Jon Larson that he doesn’t seem like a tattoo artist. His body isn’t covered with ink […]
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By Kristen Grace / September 26, 2012 / Mandan News, News, Top Stories / No Comments
Derek Fladand loves to fight fire. He remembers the adrenaline rush while helping put out a tractor fire near his hometown of Gilby. During his junior year of high school, Fladand learned about a program called the Fire Academy of North Dakota that introduces students, ages 16-22, to the professional side of fire service. That […]
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By Matt Bunk / August 16, 2012 / InFocus, Mandan News, News, People, Top Stories / No Comments
Mike Braun works a full-time job, serves as a captain in the North Dakota National Guard, is raising three teenage daughters and, despite all that, decided he should be doing more to make his community better. So, the 46-year-old lifelong Mandan resident ran for one of two open spots on the City Commission. “I was […]
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By Matt Bunk / July 24, 2012 / Business, Mandan News, News, Top Stories / 2 Comments
Nick Ressler flipped through the loose pages of paper where he had jotted down dozens of catch-phrases summarizing the marketability of his new technological break-through before he gave up and decided to let a fictional advertising executive explain it for him. “Have you ever seen the show ‘Madmen?’” he asked. “The scene where these ad […]
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