Sioux-cia
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No to being named after a GF high school team, no to being just another Hawk, no to being named for the state of Minnesota's state motto, and no to being named after a sun halo/shadow.
I vote for NoDak. It's the closest to North Dakota, it's representative of who we are, it's unique, it's short and to the point.
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Or you add internal security to your stores with thick plexiglass partitions, push through money slots, etc. For the companies, the costs probably outweigh the benefits for "customer experience" and the relatively small amount of cash these robberies take. It's also easier from a liability perspective if the employee just gives the money without any hassle.
Lots of service stations in larger cities have the partitions. I've always wondered if this resulted in an increase in shop lifting.
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That's like the third time in a year for that location. Talk about a lack of creativity.
The clerks need tazers or mace.
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Seven rows up from the ice, behind the goal where the visitors shoot twice plus the parking pass. $2340. PM me.
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Fargo police are searching and looking for a 7 year old boy who didn't make it home after school today.
He's been found. No other information has been released.
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One child involved in prostitution is one too many.
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'Voice for the Captives says the average age of American prostitutes is between 12 and 14 years. Globally, the number of girls and women being trafficked grows by almost a million each year.'
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UND among the best. Naturally!
http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/fitness/america’s-11-best-college-gyms/ss-BBmd90x#image=12
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I know it's tough when one of the big groups in the news calls itself "black lives matter", but please try not to delve into racial politics. Thanks.
Totally agree, racial politics has hijacked this thread.
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His love of hockey and children left a great legacy in North Dakota.
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Not a good way to start the season for Hudson Walton,
http://www.wday.com/news/crime/3828477-und-freshman-linebacker-arrested-drinking-and-driving
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'These killers act knowing that their ploy is likely to work, and that their faces, words and vicious deeds will be splashed on our screens on their terms.'
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I guess that opinion simplifies things especially when you want to ignore the facts that have come out.
But I'm sure you would be singing the same tune if the scenario was exactly the same with a white male opening fire and killing a black male and female and then leaving a manifesto praising the killer in the SC shootings.......................
MY opinion is based on information I gleaned from what has been posted by the media. And, yes, were this a white man with the same employment/firing history as this black murderer who killed a black man and a black woman and he left what you call a 'manifesto' and what I call bull crap, I would be singing the same tune. Unlike too many people who base their opinions on the color of the skin one wears, my opinions are based on what information is available.
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It's been reported this murderer had an anger problem that resulted in his losing more than one job. IMO, his suicide letters were a bunch of crap he put together in an attempt to make himself a 'hero' to certain factions after his death. His murders were nothing more than his being pissed off that he was fired. Again this is just my opinion.
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Black disgruntled ex-employee shoots ex-fellow employees/boss = hate crime? White disgruntled ex-employee shoots ex-fellow employees/boss = mental illness?
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Here's the part that drives me crazy. My local community recently had a trailer park close. The owner was looking to sell the land because it was more valuable than the operation of the park. The park had 60 families. Those families were a mix of retired and entry level workers (Latino) but they were all living within their means and doing the best they can.
Here is the story of one resident:
After her house in Grand Forks, North Dakota was destroyed by a flood. She bought her mobile home for $9,500. As is the case with most mobile home residents, she owns the unit she lives in, but rents the lot on which it sits for just over $300 a month.
And another:
On any given day, you might find her working at Sam Goody. Or Nordstrom's Rack. Or Tony Roma's restaurant. She says she works 15 hours a day between the three jobs. "And it is tiring," .......... she adds. "I like everything in my house," Ramirez says. "It took us a long time to get this house. Everything we have we struggled to have."
Now, the residents try to form a CO-OP but are unable to raise the capital that is required. When they approach the city to partner with them. The city government declines and then provides the following quotes.
The City of Bloomington says it's sympathetic to the housing needs of its low income residents, but the closing of Shady Lane had to do with forces beyond its control.
"It was really a question of money," says City of Bloomington attorney Sandra Johnson.From another news article.
When Shady Lane Court – a community that was overwhelmingly people of color (74%) and predominantly Latino (56%) – received closure notices in 2005, city officials did not offer support and made such statements as: “It’s time for a reality check; maybe some people can’t afford to live in Bloomington.”
And then the City goes into a semi smear campaign with the following quotes:
Attorney Sandra Johnson had indeed been documenting problems at Shady Lane for a long time before the park closed. Bankers boxes of files on Shady Lane line the floor under her desk. "I've got archive boxes on this particular file that start from the mid-'90s, when it became a real eyesore, at least from the city's perspective," Johnson says..
There's also documentation of some of the more idiosyncratic residents. As Johnson puts it, mobile homes sometimes draw people who want to live under the radar. She holds out a picture of a unit where the windows are covered with flies. Some of the stranger stories are the stuff of lore about trailer parks. But according to Johnson, the real problem at Shady Lane was the array of health, environmental, and building code violations.
Ultimately the park closes, and all of the residents are relocated. The government was able to help 10 of the 60 resident families because they qualified for assistance.
Now we fast forward a couple of years, a new project is started at the Shady Lane location. It's called the Crossings at Valley View. It is a $10 million dollar project that provides residents for 50 families. Rents on all 50 units are affordable to families at or below 50 percent of area median income, with four units being further restricted to 30 percent of area median income. In other words all units are subsidized. The building of the project itself is heavily subsidized by government agencies/non profits and by local government. The City of Bloomington and the County provide approximately $1 million dollars. So, the market forces that the City was talking about was in fact themselves. I really don't consider those market forces.
If you look into the numbers it's crazy. The average house prices in that area when this project was completed was right around $120,000 to $170,000. Yet, the government builds a project that costs $200,000 per unit and provides further monthly assistance for rent for the foreseeable future. So, who do they get the money from... the neighbors who are living within their means.
In a nutshell the government decided to relocate/dump on one population (retired/down on their luck/entry level-Latino) for another (New American). They hide behind the claim of market forces/diversity/inclusiveness but actually force the people they relocated to subsidize their replacement. This is the problem that I have with this stuff. I would rather help the people not expecting anything versus the groups working the system and expecting everything to be given to them. But, why wouldn't they expect everything to be given to them - it is the precedence that our leaders have set. I have a great taxi driver story trying to get home from the MSP after an international business flight.
There are all types of 'immigrants' moving to the mid-west. I recently cared for a young, single, unemployed, American-born mother of three who had just moved to North Central Minnesota from Florida. All of her support systems were in Florida except for one friend who had encouraged this young lady to move to Minnesota. Her answer to why had she moved to Minnesota was 'the benefits' (medical assistance, housing assistance, welfare assistance, food stamps, etc.) are a lot better in Minnesota than Florida'. She is not an uncommon 'immigrant'. I bet there are more people like her settling in the midwest than those imported by LSS. Can she and 'her kind' be refused residence or can she be deported back to Florida?
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Hmnnn...you had me hooked for a minute and then all of a sudden, you lost me. Just kidding, absolutely GREAT post, including the part I cut out.
I'll offer up another tyoe of fan, though: one who spent 22 years as a born-and-raised native North Dakotan who just recently hit the tipping point of having now spent the majority of his life as a resident of somewhere else. To this day, when people ask me where I'm from, the answer is still "North Dakota...but I live in Wisconsin now."
You moved to Wisconsin?
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And rest assured, some folks on the committee can probably hear this now, too, which is why Sundogs will keep gaining momentum over the "erase the past" crowd.
What's to stop the crowd from yelling Sioux instead of Sundogs?
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'This isn’t about the virtues of that nickname. That debate’s immaterial, because the NCAA’s threat of sanctions deemed it so. This is about a university committee failing to hear its constituency, and capitulating.'
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IMO, the decision as to what the new name will be has already been decided by the committee majority and Kelley. Asking the public to vote on a name is a smoke screen invented to appease students, alumni, and fans. I hope I'm wrong.
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As a 'transplanted' NoDak, I have never understood the North Dakota/Roughrider tie. The Spanish American War, San Juan Hill, yep, North Dakota not so much. When I think of Roughriders and North Dakota, I think of RRHS hockey.