# Jeff Beach

인기 팟 캐스트 에피소드
업데이트 됨:

Seeking solutions for rural grocery stores, food deserts

Rural grocers are facing growing pressures from changing customer habits, rising costs and workforce shortages.  This week on A Closer Look with the Monitor, host Craig Blumenshine speaks with Monitor Deputy Editor Jeff Beach about food deserts, efforts to help grocery stores remain viable and the …

ND primary: Ballots, signatures and political influence

This week on A Closer Look with the Monitor, Deputy Editor Jeff Beach talks to host Craig Blumenshine about some absentee ballots he saw get rejected in 2024 because of issues related to the voter’s signature.  Jeff explains why it’s important for voters who vote by mail to make sure they use a con…

Energy research and a quiet constitutional vote

Uncertainty around federal grants forced layoffs of some employees at the Energy and Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota and furloughs of even more. But Monitor deputy editor Jeff Beach discusses how some of those workers are returning along with federal research dollars…

Dairy Disputes, Smarter Travel Tech, and Digital Anatomy

Craig Blumenshine takes a closer look at two major issues shaping North Dakota's future as The North Dakota Monitor's Deputy Editor Jeff Beach examines the legal fight over a permit for what could become the state's largest dairy operation and a closely watched court battle over whether public safe…

Challenges to dairy and pipeline permits

Two recent stories deal with how state regulators handle environmental protection of permitting of major development projects.  One covers the legal challenges surrounding the permit for what could become North Dakota's largest dairy operation, where opponents argue state regulators failed to adequ…

Record demand for food assistance

More than 186,000 people in North Dakota and a neighboring county in Minnesota sought food assistance in the past year, a record for the Great Plains Food Bank. Monitor reporter Michael Achterling talks to host Craig Blumenshine about the increase and the impacts from cuts to federal programs. In t…

Tackling technology in schools

A year after North Dakota’s cellphone ban took effect in public schools, policymakers are eyeing how to approach artificial intelligence and school-issued devices. North Dakota Monitor deputy editor Jeff Beach describes how a state education official is urging lawmakers to let schools retain flexib…

Ups and downs of speed limit changes

North Dakota raised its top interstate speed limit to 80 mph about a year ago. Today, Highway Patrol data shows shifts in where speeding tickets are being written. Monitor deputy editor Jeff Beach talks with host Craig Blumenshine about the impact of lowering interstate speed limits around North Da…

Farmers feel the squeeze

North Dakota farmers are heading into harvest season facing another major expense – record high diesel prices.  Diesel has climbed above $6 a gallon in parts of the state, roughly double what some farmers paid last fall. Monitor Deputy Editor Jeff Beach joins host Craig Blumenshine to discuss the i…

Candidate questions, power moves and navigating the election

Three Republican Party officials this week filed a petition to the North Dakota Supreme Court challenging the eligibility of four legislative candidates. Reporter Jack Dura joins host Craig Blumenshine to talk about the arguments in the court case and the secretary of state’s position. Also, Monito…