Dustin

I didn't vote, but it appears my thinking is in line with the majority in that it will be either Jerry or JTJ.

I also need a passport to get into the place I'm going (generally).

I always check Winnipeg for pricing of "major" flights (mostly overseas - Europe, Caribbean/Mexico, Hawaii). Even flew to Australia from Winnipeg for less than $1500.

Somehow I missed the R1 announcement until this thread was revived. Probably too much football and hockey talk going on back in February I agree with whoever said this should have been shouted from the rooftops. It didn't seem like it was.

Cool.

CBS (and Jim Nantz, in particular) is the authority on golf telecasts, but NBC (and its Golf Channel subsidiary) are still good. Glad NBC got the USGA events (including the US Open) back from FOX. They were terrible at golf.

I would be in favor of a full NODAK takeover of everything.

Agreed. Big loss.

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not sure how many of these have been announced before.

North Dakota football adds six transfers for 2025 - University of North Dakota Athletics

Stunted/reduced plant growth and poor drainage / waterlogging.

It would an interesting, yet impossible, case study to see how the 1997 flood vs. no 1997 flood affected the next quarter century+. One thing that's for sure is that GF would have had to deal with numerous more floods (like Fargo has) without a robust flood protection system, which would not have been any fun. Another problem with growing Grand Forks is the land on which to expand. Hard to develop residentially to the north - heavy industry that people don't really want to live by. Hard to develop west - run into alkali. Can't develop east - run into the river. That leaves the only option as south - into primo farmland that fetches a pretty penny.

I wasn't offering a commentary on the mayor, simply that there was a lot of exciting things happening during that timeframe that happened to coincide with him mayor.

Big time disagree. After the flood, Grand Forks got a big boost with lots of things that make it great - Alerus Center, Ralph, flood protection system and its associated parks and greenway. What really hurt was the consolidation of media in eastern North Dakota. Losing WDAZ newscasts, and a scale down of the Herald, made it much harder to Grand Forks to be seen amongst the shadow Fargo had begun casting, especially with Bison-mania.