ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Wind Power: Economic windfall 
Wind farms spur economic development
By Ryan Schuster , January 09, 2009
Rural small businesses can aid economic development
In these challenging economic times we should look to very small businesses and start-up firms that seem to create jobs in both expanding and contracting economies.
By Jack Geller , January 09, 2009
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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 just be another negotiation on building improvements or lea
Posted by: Tu-Uyen on Dec 8, 2009 at 3:28 AM | The City BeatHow would a downtown grocery store make sense?
Who knew that downtown people wanted a grocery store so bad? The City Beat's gotten a ton of comments about the proposed grocery store in downtown Grand Forks, some from co-workers who live nearby. One lady left a minute-long voice mail lovingly extolling the virtues of Trader Joe's, which, as she s
Posted by: Tu-Uyen on Nov 26, 2009 at 8:49 PM | The City BeatBad month for Alerus Center
At the Grand Forks' City Council finance committee meeting today, the City Beat's ears perked up when I heard this exchange between Council President Hal Gershman, a big events-center supporter, and committee Chairman Doug Christensen, a sometimes supporter and sometimes gadfly of the events center:
Posted by: Tu-Uyen on Nov 18, 2009 at 11:01 PM | The City BeatGood month for Alerus Center
Grand Forks' Alerus Center had a great month in October making a profit of $271,013.10. If you subtract the built-in subsidy from the hospitality tax, that's still $239,763.10, which is still pretty good. It's been a tough year though so one great month isn't enough to wipe out the losses. The city
Posted by: Tu-Uyen on Nov 18, 2009 at 10:21 PM | The City BeatThe road ahead for GF AFB
It looks like this week is turning into the week of Col. John Michel. I had a Q&A with the man in the paper today -- it was going to run Sunday, but I felt I needed more info -- and will have a story about his "state of the base" address in the paper tomorrow. On Friday, I'll be attend
Posted by: Tu-Uyen on Nov 10, 2009 at 6:39 PM | The City BeatRestructuring the Alerus Center commission
Grand Forks City Council Mike McNamara said today at the finance committee that he'd like to get rid of the commission structure at the Alerus Center and have the city run the building the way it runs any other department. Council member Terry Bjerke, who's a frequent ally of Mac, emphasized that i
Posted by: Tu-Uyen on Nov 4, 2009 at 10:36 PM | The City BeatQuestions about the Alerus Center
This afternoon, the Grand Forks City Council's finance committee will be talking about the contract between the Alerus Center and VenuWorks. The City Beat has an inkling that what this will set off is some serious soul searching about what the city is doing with that facility and how it's
Posted by: Tu-Uyen on Nov 4, 2009 at 1:33 AM | The City BeatUND's clean coal project
About two weeks ago, the City Beat got a press release from UND about this new research project to improve so-called "clean coal" technology. We're just running the story today because it took me that long to figure out how this technology could work. It's hard to talk to engineers becaus
Posted by: Tu-Uyen on Oct 26, 2009 at 3:59 AM | The City Beat
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