{"id":22282,"date":"2013-07-12T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=22282"},"modified":"2013-07-12T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:59:19","slug":"n-d-open-for-business-sign-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=22282","title":{"rendered":"N.D. Open For Business Sign Moved To Cities Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northdakotasign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22283\" alt=\"Open For Busness\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northdakotasign.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The Greater North Dakota Chamber is taking a billboard campaign touting the state\u2019s superiority over Minnesota in job creation to the Twin Cities.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Greater North Dakota Chamber CEO Andy Peterson says a billboard soon will be going up on Interstate 94 to grab the attention of people heading west out of Minneapolis-St. Paul.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The state chamber group initially put up a bright yellow billboard along I-94 just across the Minnesota border in Moorhead. It reads, \u201cNorth Dakota. Open for Business.\u201d It angered some officials on both sides of the border who think it\u2019s too confrontational.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That billboard has since been moved down I-94 to Fergus Falls. Peterson said it will be retired, but he didn\u2019t say when.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Previously&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP Jul 2, 2013) -A billboard promoting North Dakota&#8217;s business climate that drew criticism in the Fargo-Moorhead area has been moved away from the North Dakota-Minnesota border.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The billboard is part of a Greater North Dakota Chamber campaign aimed at promoting North Dakota&#8217;s booming economy and encouraging Minnesota to improve its business climate. It went up in mid-May along Interstate 94 in Moorhead, Minn., which neighbors Fargo.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It read &#8220;North Dakota. Open for Business,&#8221; and it angered some officials on both sides of the border who thought it too confrontational.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The billboard has been moved down the interstate to a spot near Fergus Falls. The Greater North Dakota Chamber says the move was planned and had nothing to do with the bad reception in Fargo-Moorhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The Greater North Dakota Chamber is taking a billboard campaign touting the state\u2019s superiority over Minnesota in job creation to the Twin Cities. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Greater North Dakota Chamber CEO Andy Peterson says a billboard soon will be going up on Interstate 94 to grab the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22816,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282\/revisions\/22816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}