The Sicatoka

Porter out of the box and into the net on a 2-0 breakaway. 6-2 North Dakota.

13:01 left in the third, 5-2 UND. 4 on 4 now. SCSU will have 1:05 of power play in :55.

17:59 left in the third, 5-2 Sioux.

(honk!) End of two. 5-2 North Dakota. Saves: Goepfert: 27 game, 10 in period Lamoureux: 16 game, 7 in period VandeVelde twice, Toews, Watkins, in the period.

North Dakota penalty, Radke for charging.

5:25 left in the second. 5-2 North Dakota.

Watkins off a power cycle in the zone (VandeVelde and Jones assist). At 13:12 of the second, 5-2 Sioux.

7:20 left in the second, 4-2 Sioux.

Toews from Oshie (at the end of the kill). 4-2 UND.

1:22 left to Kozek. 8:54 left in the second.

Gordon from Dey. PPG. 3-2 UND.

3-1 UND. SCSU PP. 10:47 left in second. Check from behind - Kozek (minor).

3-1 UND. VandeVelde from Watkins' rebound!

2-1 UND. 12:00 left in the second.

Thumb? Oshie.

Toews. PPG. 1-0 UND. 3:40 left in the first.

SCSU penalty. DOT line out.

5:36 left in the first, no score.

In NAIA's second division?

I soothe it by repeating "with age comes wisdom" over and over.

I rattled those off to point out that Wimmer and the mayor have differing agendas from Williams (and the HPR, see first post disclaimer). You should. GF spends a lot of time worrying about the future of GFAFB and just recently figured out they need to look at water (30 to 50 years out) like Fargo just started to under the former mayor. And you learn many cool pieces of information reading Alerus commission minutes. Bismarck city politics right now is not the main spotlight right now (as it seems to turn when everyone focuses on the Capital). The widening of Washington on the north side (from Main to Divide) is as contentious as ever and will come up again very soon as more folks build north. Some say that road needs to be widened all the way from Main north to Highway 1804. Bismarck versus townships/county land annexation conversations out there are warm, but not as warm as Fargo had with Horace and West Fargo. (Presets on my AM radio are KFYR 550, KFGO 790, and KNOX 1310, but you could probably guess that now.) But none of that changes that John Q. Paulson and Dr. Joe Chapman were involved in another situation that smells of open meeting violation.

The other thing that same article said was one win and they are guaranteed. I like math and all, but I like a sure thing more. Control what's yours to control. Win.

My beef is with people who appear to look down their noses at open meetings laws as well. As far as Williams, his view on issues I learned by listening to the regional radio news (KFGO) when I'm driving and reading the newspapers. Would you like to know Coates' pet projects? Wimmer's? The mayor's? Go back to the post that started this. I knew the HPR (Strand's) agenda too. I try to stay informed about regional governments and what they are doing because I'm a North Dakotan and taxpayer first*. Then a Sioux fan. I don't know Williams and never have met him. I can't even say I've voted for him. I don't have a dog in this fight, but yet I do: Sunshine, and ND's open meeting law. * Re-read first sentence here.

He's not my boy; he's Fargo's. The people there elected him. But, if I were to "lobby" people about possibly illegal quarums (that should have been noticed as public meetings), those people would be in Bismarck (think: Governor or Attorney General), not Fargo. Shouldn't the folks in Bismarck be asking why two folks investigated in summer of 2006 for possible open meetings violations, one of them being the ND State Board of Higher Education president, find themselves in the mix of possibly another just months later? and shady, questionably legal meetings? If it involves Fargo tax dollars, he should. He is on the city commission.

D'oh!