fightingsioux4life

I was there. It was brutally cold and windy that day. I stuck it out until the end, but it was not easy.

I was there as well. Great turnout by the fans, beautiful night for a game next to Lake Bemidji and the butt-kicking was fun too! Of course, 1995 started out with excitement and expectations for our team. We had been to the national semifinals back to back years and we were all excited with the prospect of taking the next step as a program. If we can get back to those expectations and excitement level with the program, we'll see more people at the Alerus Center and more people travel for road games.

Congratulations to everyone that helped raise the money and to those that contributed!

Okay, let's keep politics out of it or else this thread will get shut down and I don't want that to happen. I guess I don't want the UND sports media to become tools of UND public relations. If that happens, I'll have to come here for all my sports info needs.

There was an initiated measure in 2008 that would have cut corporate and individual income taxes. It was voted down big-time.

Okay, then please explain to me how Alaska has higher oil taxes than we have and it hasn't hurt their economy at all. They have no income tax and each of their residents gets a royalty check from all the oil tax proceeds. Granted, they have fewer people and, thus, fewer needs to fund, but as long as there is oil in North Dakota, the oil companies are not going anywhere. I think North Dakota should pass a constitutional amendment to make it legal to pay out royalties to North Dakota residents. But I suppose you wouldn't like that, would you? As for "letting them keep what they worked hard to earn", how about all the negative impacts on the people that live here that have resulted from the oil boom? Should we just pay for it out of our tax dollars so that the oil executives can keep more of "what they worked hard to earn"? Apparently, you think so. I do not. And a lot of the oil money is NOT staying in North Dakota, it is going out of state to the families of the oil workers, many of whom are here because they can't find work at home. So please explain to me how that helps North Dakota? Based on your comments here, why don't we just lower the tax to ZERO and let them keep ALL of it, while we subsidize the expenses and the disruptions they are causing? In my book, that is pure corporate welfare, which this Legislature thinks is the solution to every problem. I personally consider it the fleecing of North Dakota. But to each their own.

Fargo needs comprehensive flood protection. Just building dikes will not work in Fargo, the topography is much different there. No matter what is proposed, somebody is going to kick and scream about how "unfair" and "wrong" it is. A lot of people would rather nothing be done so they aren't bothered by it. Grand Forks had to fight against crap like this during the 1999 session, so this doesn't surprise me. Instead of passing Carlson's beloved oil extraction tax cut, we should leave the tax alone and use the oil money to pay for a Fargo diversion with state money and tell the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take a hike. We could sell bonds to pay for it. Interest rates are very low right now and we could pay it off gradually year by year. Maybe this is something the citizens can put on the ballot (before the Legislature gets around to abolishing the referral and initiative process altogether). You can bet one thing: If Fargo floods and the devestation is as bad, or worse, than what Grand Forks endured in 1997, the Legislature will immediately come out and say "We can't afford to help Fargo with anything", while they pass more tax cuts for out-of-state corporations. If it wasn't so serious of a topic, it would be funny.

Anyone think Dalrymple has the grapefruits to veto this piece of crap bill?

Four points and a stick salute are a must!

That's right, in the PWR, this game is counted as a tie.

North Dakota State Boys High School Hockey Championship Game: Grand Forks Red River 7, Grafton-Park River 1. GFRR brings the title back to Grand Forks (where it belongs) and brings home title #16. The Spoilers, meanwhile finish Runner-Up at State for the 12th time, further cementing their position as Runner-Up High in North Dakota! Bwaaahahahahaha!!!!

6-1 Grand Forks Red River, 6:41 left in the game.

The 1997 team had a fair number of ND kids on it. The 2000 team did as well. And we all know how those teams finished!!!

4-1 Riders, less than 2 minutes in the 2nd period.

Amen.

You are negative as usual.

I think I'll join the party this year.

Yes, I read the story in the Heraldo on that. It's still a travesty. If there is one tournament that should be in Grand Forks, it's the state hockey tournament. If they have to have the boys and girls tournaments in different towns, then do it. We'll see what kind of attendance they have for this in that overpriced, overhyped, ugly-as-sin arena formerly known as the UP Center. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

We should just go all the way and give ALL the state tournaments to Imperial Cass. It's the only part of the state that matters, right?

Red River will be determined to win it all this year because of what happened last year. I would go ahead and call it a "choke job", but I don't want to get in trouble with Faison!

Whatever you want to call it, it makes the Heraldo look like a tool of UND Public Relations. Not good.

Tom Miller's piece was pure UND brown-nosing. I thought the media's job was to be objective and to hold the establishment accountable?

Tom Miller (and especially YOU Wayne Nelson), stop calling our teams this!!! Take Ryan Bakken's advice and knock it off!!! Thank you.

I am thinking it was 1977.

And everytime someone even suggests changing them, a bunch of parents whine and complain about it. And I believe most of them can be seen at the ND State Hockey Tournament every year wearing red sweater vests and khakis. Honestly people, Grand Forks is (and will continue) growing southward. At some point, you will have to change the boundaries or else one school will have lots of empty spaces and the other will be overcrowded. And no, adding onto Red River HS is NOT a solution.