Nothing in the data suggests a downturn in the local restaurant industry, an economic analyst says. And at the Blue Moose, a co-owner says the restaurant business is “downright fun."
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East Grand Forks businesses, lawmakers decry Walz orders, briefly consider mass reopening
Mayor Steve Gander organized a meeting at which East Grand Forks business leaders rattled off the hardships their businesses have endured under Gov. Tim Walz s leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic generally, and in the wake of a particularly restrictive executive order. 9:38 pm, Dec. 9, 2020 ×
East Grand Forks City Hall
On the same night an East Grand Forks bar defied restrictions Gov. Tim Walz put in place to slow the spread of coronavirus, several of the community s business owners and state lawmakers decried the latest round of restrictions and, briefly but seemingly seriously, contemplated an illegal mass reopening.