More and more people want a four-day work week, but does less work ... work better?
The InForum Business Beat Podcast
Release Date: 03/10/2023
How West Acres survived and thrived after the ‘retail apocalypse’
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Fresh off an appearance at TEDxFargo, West Acres Chief Operating Officer Alissa Adams sits down with host Thomas Evanella on the InForum Business Beat Podcast. Alissa discusses her TEDx experience, what differentiates West Acres from other malls and how the retail destination continues to attract new businesses.
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‘Everybody’s a repeat’ at this tucked-away burger stand deep in Minnesota Lakes Country
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Maple Beach Grill is a small, unassuming place to eat outside Pelican Rapids in Otter Tail County. The restaurant isn’t fancy or new, but it more than makes up for it with a menu and simple charm that pulls customers back throughout the decades. Wait times can be an hour, but listen in as InForum reporter Dave Olson explains why it's worth it year after year.
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North Dakota Horse Park enjoys successful season and hopes to race ahead in 2024
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The North Dakota Horse Park has a short season, with three weekends of racing in July. General manager Hugh Drexler visited the podcast to discuss the season and what he hopes to accomplish moving forward.
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Major movement is coming to Moorhead as city works to fight perception it’s unfriendly to business
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Listen in as Derrick LaPoint from Downtown Moorhead, Inc. discusses the Moorhead Center Mall, 11th Street underpass and, yes, that “Cuba” remark from Kevin O’Leary.
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Myles Montplaisir and You Betcha are moving to Horace to kick off new era for digital media brand
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founder Myles Montplaisir is preparing to relocate his growing digital media company to a massive new facility in Horace. Myles joined the InForum Business Beat Podcast to break down why the company is moving, how they’ve changed their content approach and memorable moments from the past five years.
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Restaurant updates, a photo studio with a story, and a business built on medicinal plants
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We're catching up on some of our recent business news coverage in this episode of the InForum Business Beat Podcast. This week, we learned about a big milestone at one business and we heard about a photography studio with a story. Plus, a Dilworth woman has turned her love of plants and gardening into a business selling teas and other products using medicinal plants.
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Moorhead has a perception it isn't business friendly, McFeely says, and the Center Mall deal didn't help
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Roers has moved to dissolve the condo association at the Moorhead Center Mall, paving the way for a massive redevelopment of the dated site. What happens next? InForum columnist Mike McFeely joins host Thomas Evanella to discuss.
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Have you tried these new restaurants in the F-M metro?
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The food scene in the Fargo-Moorhead area remained red hot in the first half of 2023. It's a lot of news to have our plates, but we can always find room for one more bite. Host Thomas Evanella and reporter Helmut Schmidt tuck in their bibs and dig into the last busy few months in restaurant openings, closings and other changes on this episode of the Business Beat podcast.
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Determined and ambitious, the rural community of Halstad has big plans for its former high school
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Big things are happening in small towns across our region, flying in the face of expectations that rural communities have nothing to offer in a modern economy. Reporter Tammy Swift has been documenting these success stories through her recent reporting. In this episode, she joins host Thomas Evanella to discuss how Halstad, Minn., population 579, is transforming its now-defunct high school into a multi-use facility with spaces for business and housing.
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This week and every week, celebrate the small businesses that keep our communities vibrant
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National Small Business week is taking place this week, having started on Sunday, April 30 and concluding on Saturday, May 6. To recognize the impact small businesses have on the Fargo-Moorhead area, we invited Del Carver, co-chair of Prairie and Lakes SCORE onto to InForum Business Beat Podcast. SCORE is an organization of volunteer mentors that help entrepreneurs and small business owners by offering advice and ideas. Carver is familiar with the challenges that small businesses face, but during his time with SCORE, he’s also had an up-close-and-personal look at many small business success...
info_outlineReal-world trials consistently arrive at the same conclusion: shorter work weeks are good for employees and employers. Does that mean it would work for every sector or every type of job?
Host Thomas Evanella talks with Krista Lynn Minnotte, a sociology professor at the University of North Dakota, about the latest research on four-day weeks, which are receiving a phenomenal amount of media attention.