Healthcare, insurance, HR and a new editor – Grand Forks Herald

Welcome to the May well version of Prairie Company journal. This month we function an job interview with North Dakota Coverage Commissioner Jon Godfread, some imaginative solutions to the region’s overall health treatment employee scarcity, and how human resources departments deal with endless PTO, among other subjects.

I’m Carrie McDermott, the magazine’s new editor, and I want to take this time to share a bit about myself.

I’m a southern California indigenous, from the Riverside spot, and graduated from California State University San Bernardino with a bachelor of arts diploma in 1992. My intention was to get the job done on publications. Life had a further approach.

I quickly went to operate for a Pulitzer Prize-profitable newspaper, The Press-Company, and was bitten by the information bug. Through my 17 years there, I labored in news, features, unique sections, advertising and even under the enterprise growth office, wherever I labored on web sites and unique publications. Portion of my task assignments bundled encouraging deliver various local community, life style and enterprise-to-enterprise journals, which happy my university goals.

My heart inevitably brought me to North Dakota, in which I worked for a small local community paper in Wahpeton called the Day-to-day News, as very well as the weekly News Check. Soon after 12 decades masking the ins and outs of the southern Pink River Valley communities, I was prepared for a new problem.

Prairie Business known as and I answered.

I’m now in Grand Forks and understanding all about the significant location we deal with. I’m searching ahead to conference the organization leaders we create about, listening to about your industries and acquiring out what tends to make your companies prosperous.

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Lastly, it’s time as soon as all over again to send out in your nominations for our annual Leaders & Legacies awards, Prairie Business’ most prestigious honor bestowed on the region’s best executives.

The award class was made to identify executives in the Dakotas and western Minnesota for their excellent achievements in small business. Tell us about organization and business founders, homeowners, CEOs and presidents who you consider should really be acknowledged for their outstanding perform.

Whether or not the fantastic operate has been performed in recent several years or around a life time, we want to listen to about them. To nominate, fill out the on-line variety at

https://gfherald.wufoo.com/kinds/q146bbu19nkyg6/

. We’ll function the fantastic leaders in our July challenge.

Until eventually upcoming time,

Carrie McDermott

I glance ahead to listening to from you at

[email protected]

or 701-780-1276.

Carrie McDermott joined Prairie Small business journal in March 2023. She handles company business traits in North Dakota, South Dakota and west central Minnesota. Email deal with: [email protected].