Monthly Archives: April 2010

Outstate Unemployment Figures…We’re Better Than We Were But…

This week new March unemployment numbers came out for Minnesota, North and South Dakota. In a nutshell, while we are better than we were last year at this time, March 2010 really ended up in most cases to be a … Continue reading

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The 10 Most Popular Franchises in the U.S.

Everyone seems to have a dream to be on top of the next hot trend. Be it food, service or fashion, once something becomes hot, many of them go the franchise route. Franchises, for those who don’t know, is for … Continue reading

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Cleaning Off my Spindle: Zorbaz Update, Tea Party Affiliation, and School District Building Purchase

  With over 5000 hits in about 7 days, and with over 17 comments posted, the last blog I did about our city’s feud with Zorbaz moves into first place as far as most read and most commented blog I … Continue reading

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If It Worked in Washington, It Will Work Here…Time For Zorbaz and City to have a Beer Summit

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls what have we now gotten ourselves into?? It seems as if our mayor and city council and the owner of Zorbaz have taken each other on in a sort of cat and mouse public … Continue reading

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More Washington Money Coming for Indian Schools??

The website MinnPost out of the Twin Cities carried an article which has particular interest for us in Northern Minnesota. Written by Derek Wallbank out of Washington, DC, the article talks about Minnesota Representative Betty McCollum asking the house appropriations … Continue reading

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The Faces of the Homeless in Bemidji

My wife and I had the privilege to volunteer through our church to help out the Servants of Shelter program here in Bemidji. This program begins in November and runs through March 27th. The Servants of Shelter program has participating … Continue reading

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Crown Vic Police Interceptor Being Replaced by Ford

As a confessed police “want-a-be” who would rather watch a 10 year old rerun of COPS 2.0 on the G4 network instead of a new sitcom, I took notice of a recent article in U.S. World and News Report in … Continue reading

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