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Tag: Moorhead

Crime and Justice

Distracted drivers are slow learners

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 14, 2017, 10:52 AM Apr 14, 2017
29 Comments

At a red light on Wednesday, Moorhead police officers looked out of a bus and saw not one, not two, not three, but four different drivers taking the opportunity to do a little texting.
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Education · The jobs we do

Enjoy heartbreak? Be a school bus driver

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 2, 2016, 10:25 AM Dec 2, 2016
1 Comment

The racist taunts between a school bus driver in Moorhead and his passengers has brought out school-bus drivers in the area willing to tell the story of what the job is like. Read more →

Education

In Moorhead, racism rides the bus

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2016, 7:08 AM Nov 30, 2016
5 Comments

A Moorhead school bus driver has been fired after he abandoned about 20 students at an industrial park last week.

This is one of those stories, however, that goes beyond the initial telling, which didn’t include why a school bus driver would abandon middle school students in his care. Read more →

Health

Fargo area parents can’t free kids from heroin’s grip

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 4, 2016, 8:56 AM Apr 4, 2016
9 Comments

John and Darcy Nelson are at a loss to explain the heroin epidemic that’s consuming Fargo, N.D., the Fargo Forum reports. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Politics

Unwelcome second-hand store owner wants shelter out

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 13, 2015, 9:32 AM May 13, 2015
1 Comment

A Fargo second-hand store owner isn’t happy about those people next door. Read more →

Economy

Moorhead Council changes its mind on homeless housing

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 23, 2014, 7:16 AM Jul 23, 2014
0 Comments

The Moorhead City Council has had a change of heart — sort of — in its opposition to housing for the homeless in the city. This week the Council rescinded its resolution, passed last week, opposing an apartment complex for the previously homeless, the Fargo Forum reports. “We don’t have input necessarily on our destination, Read more →

Politics

Who’ll help the homeless? Not Moorhead

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 15, 2014, 8:27 AM Jul 15, 2014
19 Comments

Moorhead’s City Council has voted unanimously to oppose housing for the homeless. Read more →

Anti-homeless effort runs into neighbor opposition in Moorhead

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 10, 2014, 12:45 PM Jun 10, 2014
1 Comment

In Moorhead, WDAY reports, neighbors are aghast at a proposal for a 41-unit apartment complex, sponsored by a group of area churches and intended to help those who are homeless. “We can’t be too self righteous,” resident Bill Beatler told the Moorhead City Council yesterday, just before it declined to take a vote on a Read more →

Five by 8

5 x 10: Has global warming ‘paused?’ Probably not

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 10, 2013, 10:05 AM Sep 10, 2013
1 Comment

What does Arctic ice tell us, shopping Moorhead and Moorhead only, trading your adopted child, teaching our kids to be criminals, and ballooning the St. Croix Valley. Read more →

Saving Riverview Circle: Taking punches. Throwing punches

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 27, 2009, 10:45 PM Mar 27, 2009
1 Comment

The residents of Moorhead have taken everything nature can throw at them. They’re fighting back, of course, and apparently just getting warmed up.

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Saving Riverview Drive: ‘Dad, we’ve got to go!’

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 27, 2009, 5:34 PM Mar 27, 2009
18 Comments

Just as hopes were being raised behind the dikes, it all came apart for a Moorhead neighborhood on Friday.

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