tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66658814747085997132024-02-19T00:27:09.979-07:00Debora DragsethDebora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-26305138770588349482011-10-26T19:34:00.002-06:002011-10-26T19:55:45.946-06:00Help Wanted: The North Dakota MiracleThe nation’s unemployment rate has been hovering at nearly nine percent since 2009. But not every state is suffering an employment crisis. In the remote, windswept state of North Dakota, job fairs often bustle with more recruiters than potential workers. The North Dakota unemployment rate hasn’t risen above five percent since 1987. In the state's oil country, unemployment hovers at around two Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-84631890931726438532011-10-26T19:25:00.008-06:002011-10-26T19:53:41.152-06:00Debora on The Chris Berg ShowDebora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-3611421454738826632011-06-19T16:14:00.006-06:002011-06-19T16:29:40.218-06:002011 NFPW Awards Press ReleaseDr. Debora Dragseth, professor of business at Dickinson State University, recently won three national awards for her writing from the National Federation of Press Women, a nationwide organization of professional communicators that has counted among its members such luminaries as Eleanor Roosevelt and former Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. In order to be considered for a national awardDebora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-30795497233618825722011-04-01T14:58:00.005-06:002011-04-01T15:19:10.209-06:00Spring Break In Siberia: The Yenisei RiverAs it enters the 21st Century, North Dakota is enjoying the windfalls of an unprecedented oil boom, the largest oil discovery in the world in the past 30 years. While the rest of the country struggles with high unemployment and lethargic economic growth, North Dakota has a $1 billion budget surplus and the nation’s lowest unemployment rate at 3.7 percent. However, North Dakota’s economic future Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-53085248493279134612011-03-31T20:13:00.003-06:002011-04-01T15:23:03.658-06:00Young EntrepreneursSee all of my "Young Entrepreneur Success Stories' series at www.thecitymag.comDebora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-3868552285696991572010-12-22T19:47:00.001-07:002010-12-22T19:50:37.631-07:00CORN CROP 2010: FOOD, FUEL, FEED AND FOLK ARTThe harvest of this year’s U.S. corn crop is about 90 percent complete, and it is going to be a bin-buster. If it surpasses 2009's astonishing 13.1 billion bushels, it could become the largest in U.S. history. American farmers are growing more corn today than at any time in the past, and the trend is accelerating. The last five years have brought us five of the largest corn crops ever. Where to Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-10429717318395337852010-11-05T08:48:00.004-06:002010-11-05T08:53:32.656-06:00Dragseth contributes to CNNTrue tales from work: I fell into this career but I love itRead the entire article here.Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-45734320242307380072010-10-02T11:43:00.004-06:002010-10-02T11:53:07.278-06:00Redefining 'Niners': Football on The Great Plains At 0.5 people per square mile, Harding County, South Dakota is one of the least populated places in the nation. The county’s only high school, located in Buffalo, is small by even small-town standards, with 85 students in grades 9-12. However, few schools can match its gridiron success. Nicknamed after the primary industry in the region, “The Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-44150526175876097702010-09-26T17:25:00.002-06:002010-09-26T17:29:19.973-06:00Young Entrepreneur Success StoryThe September City Magazine is on the stands. This month's Young Entrepreneur Success Story is Riverbound Farm of Bismarck. Pages 12-14.Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-15092614665851818382010-08-10T14:47:00.001-06:002010-08-10T14:49:45.909-06:00Guys Gone Wild: Sturgis Motorcycle Rally BeginsYesterday marked the opening of the outrageous phenomenon known as the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, a week-long, $987 million party for about 500,000 people. Every year in early August my sleepy hometown, Sturgis, population 6,500, hosts a half million biking enthusiasts who swarm here for a combination carnival, racing event, party, music festival, and shopping mall. Read more . . . http://Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-46339816842309609092010-07-08T16:02:00.004-06:002010-07-08T16:08:18.173-06:00Listen to Debora on NPR's On PointIt seems like only yesterday that the Great Plains, the magnificent center of the country, was being written off as an economic basket case. Towns boarding up. People leaving. The case was made to give the region back to Mother Nature. To make it a “buffalo commons” again. Oh, how things change. Today, while so much of the country is struggling economically, the cities of the Great Plains are Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-72557270285132897042010-07-04T15:20:00.005-06:002010-07-04T15:24:25.980-06:00NewGeography: "Sponge Cities on the Great Plains" by Debora Dragseth“Sponge cities” is an apt metaphor to describe urban communities in rural states like North Dakota which grow soaking up the residents of surrounding small towns, farms and ranches. North Dakota’s four largest cities, Fargo, Bismarck, Grand Forks and Minot, are growing in large part due to the young adults who for decades gone elsewhere to other regions. In the process, rural North Dakota is Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-58151012000846786212010-07-01T20:50:00.002-06:002010-07-04T15:19:42.505-06:00Quoted in Forbes and NewsweekThis month I had the opportunity to meet author and demographer, Joel Kotkin, at the Great Plains YP (Young Professionals) Summit in Bismarck, ND. I was there giving a speech on Happiness. Joel quoted me in Forbes (see below). Read Joel Kotkin's entire article at http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/08/energy-pollution-north-dakota-opinions-columnists-joel-kotkin.htmlRead the Newsweek article, "Why the Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-46495121300667343972010-07-01T20:38:00.002-06:002010-07-04T15:31:06.191-06:00Business Watch Magazine: "The Advance of Oil" by Debora DragsethThe last big oil boom in North Dakota began on Christmas Day in 1976 with a discovery well in Little Knife and ended in 1986 when the world oil market collapsed. Technology and world markets have clearly evolved, this piece from Business Watch Magazine looks at other similarities and differences between the oil boom of a generation ago and the oil boom that western North Dakota is experiencing Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6665881474708599713.post-35671429578242244282010-06-30T11:27:00.003-06:002010-07-04T15:37:07.326-06:00Business Watch Magazine: "Ten trends that will reshape North Dakota in the next ten years" by Debora DragsethStrategic advantage belongs to the innovative businesses that are able to recognize trends and take advantage of them; therefore, trend spotting should be an integral part of every successful business’ strategy.As we stand on the precipice of a brand new decade, I sat down with experts from around North Dakota and asked them one question: What are the trends that will reshape North Dakota in the Debora Dragsethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227566439754037296noreply@blogger.com0