Welcome to the new North Dakota economy
July 8, 2009 | Minot, North Dakota | Vetting explained
Welcome to the new North Dakota economy
By Neal Moore
MINOT, North Dakota (CNN iReport) -- North Dakota is the #1 economy in the country fueled in part by a booming IT/Tech industry. Driving across the state (with my canoe) en route to the Mississippi River, I pulled into the city of Minot to put a face on this new economy – in the form of a successful software engineer named Kevin Mitchell and his co-worker Brenda Kast. Here, I learned that the success of education, farming, oil, as well as the governor’s platform, at least in this state, successfully revolves around information technology.
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