chicagolandsioux
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More like Cross, Whitefish, Gull, or any other Brainerd area lake on the weekends.There's no debate...Edina during the week and out on Tonka on the weekend...the bigger choice will be whether to drive the Beemer or the Range Rover.
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How in the holy heck can all of you guys keep all of this straight? I was trying to follow along and I thought I was reading ancient Greek. LOL
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In complete agreement with you. Those small towns come in great numbers. Spend money on hotels, restaurants, etc.. I have always thought the best state tourny to have for an economic impact was the B. Those small towns bring more fans than Minot, Dickinson, or Williston. Not only do the kids and parents come but everyone else in the area. It has more meaning to them. The Big 6 (GFK, FAR, MOT, ISN, BIS, DIK) residents on a whole could care less about how their high schools do in sports. Whereas the small towns it means the world to them, including the 85 year old lady in the nursing home. There is just something really special about this tourny. You don't need to know a thing about the towns or the schools to enjoy the feeling you get from watching it. It is so storybook.And the motels. Two of the largest WDA schools are right in town, eating at home, sleeping at home. People come to the B from all corners of the state. They spend money. Jack's logic is flawed.
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Doesn't Wazayta have a higher per capita income than Orono?Not Country Club Edina...the debate to live out on tonka vs in Edina is more about commute IMO
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Not just Country Club. Look at the neighborhood around Interlachen.Not Country Club Edina...the debate to live out on tonka vs in Edina is more about commute IMO
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I would say the store owners in Bismarck would say different. Isn't that how people usually respond when they lose what they really want?Jack Michaels from www.740thefan.com says Bismarck doesn't care if they get the State B back, as the WDA is a bigger deal for them. Says as long as State B and WDA are same weekend, this will be the case.
I don't believe his take.
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Good point on playing in the best arena. I agree that the B should stay out west. I don't think though that the east doesn't give it the respect it deserves. It seems more like the east does not have the right facility to hold it in. People in the east have always loved the B. The atmosphere of because of the size of the Bismarck Civic is what made it so good. From an economic stand point I understand why the east would want the tourny. It has to be a bigger impact than the hockey tourny does.I agree about having it in Scheels. The trouble is, teams don't make the tourney every year and to deny the kids a chance to play there is hard to place in the way of atmosphere. (Scheels is great don't get me wrong)
I was a freshman at umary and a kid from Hazen was telling me about his High school football run and getting to play in the Fargodome. Sometimes where you play is part of the experience for the kids.
Keep the B in Bismarck/minot where it belongs. East doesn't really respect it like it deserves.
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I was thinking earlier than that. But from your link that must be it. I was thinking of Eaglestaff. Do you know if Fort Yates played any other years?1973...I was trying to remember his name... Archambault...here is a great description of that championship game:
http://www.prairiepu...book?post=30438
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You forgot to mention United Health being sued by their stockholders over the Dr. Bill McGuire backdating stock option scam. Where all these shares hit the market devaluing the holdings of the stockholders.I appreciate your understanding of this topic, because it's better than mine. The last part of your statement is the part that I still don't grasp. I understand that investors think about percentages, that's a simple concept. We all want to invest our money in areas that yield the best return.
In the example where you said that by law the payments out have to be at least 85% of the premiums paid, the premiums aren't an investment, it's other people's money. The insurance companies keep a percentage of it to cover their cost of doing business. This is why I think that the "absolute" margin matters. As the insurers add more insured individuals to their plan, their cost of doing business per insured individual should go down. They need to employ people to make a formulary, for example, but once they have a formulary, it is applied to each patient. Sure, they have to employ more people to manage all the payments, denials, questions, etc., as they add more insured individuals, but they also have many costs which are fixed, so that each new patient should increase their revenue. Wouldn't this explain how the CEO of a huge insurer like United Healthcare can be paid $5 million? Did he personally invest $30 million and his return on investment is 15%?
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Though the people who pay little to no income tax pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than you do. That is why the argument always stops at income taxes and not total taxes as a percentage of income. Because when that occurs the argument of who does not pay income taxes as talking point lose the argument.Breaks are different than handouts and entitlements IMO. If one pays a 1/4 or a 1/3 of their income in federal taxes and someone else pays nothing...zero...into that federal tax pot................
I think we will have to agree to disagree on this so it doesn't go down a political tangent it shouldn't go down.
Back on topic...anything yzerman puts in this space...read it and take the time to understand it.
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Reagan and Bush I both used government spending to get the country out of recessions.Its kind of a keynesian debate then whether or not gov spending into private enterprise is the best way to expand economic growth. At this point we are addicted to it.
The other issue is the mobility of labor/capital. If I am very bright and motivated, I want to get paid. If it isn't in healthcare, I go somewhere else.
Think of the surgeon working 60-70 hours per week for $400k per year. if that becomes $200k, he/she isn't going to work 60-70 hours, requiring more surgeons to keep up with demand. If I am an very talented 22 year old, I then question the value of incurring $200k in debt and foregoing an decent income until I'm 30. Then you lose docs or lose docs with talent.
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Was that some time in the late 60's? I remember being little and watching Fort Yates. They had the one kid who was great.I dig the B tourney too. Loved it when they played in Bismarck. I remember Epping and their run up to the championship with Hillsboro. Although I think the B tourney is much more fun than the A...I will NEVER forget the Fort Yates/Minot championship game. That game was unreal..and the underdog/small school won! Would have won by more if the 3 point shot would have existed then...
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Sad as it is maybe having the tourny next year at the Scheels will create some of the old atmosphere. The REA is just to darn big. Reminds me of the Minnesota girls tourny being played at the X instead of Ridder where it belongs.I agree - 1992 Minot vs Bismarck game was rockin'. Watched a couple of tournament games this year...sheesh...I've seen more people in the stands at my team's broomball games at Lexington Park in Roseville!
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Neither should be there. You look at the public schools and those kids pretty much grew up playing together. The private school kids only started playing together when they got to high school.Two private schools going at it now. Only two left in class A. So this is the championship game for best private school in the lower division.
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Do you know where Orono is? No looking on a map first.EGF beating the piss out of these cities kids, the Orono goalie looks great though.
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That is not answering but avoiding. Why are these breaks you are getting not a subsidy?Seriously??
This thread was an initial discussion about NDBCBS and a rate hike. yzerman19 gave a thoughtful and educated explanation I thought.
We could turn this political on "subsidies" but don't think that would get us anywhere.
Bottomline is if one doesn't have an educated and informed understanding of healthcare insurance or the ACA this conversation will won't be productive either.
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Why?Hmmmmmmmmmmm...I guess that's one take on this albeit a misinformed and misguided one.
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Nice to see them beating down the cake eaters.East side bringing a beat down to the cities.
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I google earthed it, new verbs, and on the river side there is a big parking lot. Or the left side of the picture.The parking area supposedly out back.
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When did the state B tourney start playing in GF? From watching fb games online the Alerus is too big for those games. Could say the same thing about the REA for hockey also. I remember growing up watching the B tourny with Jim Adelson announcing from Bismarck. The atmosphere seemed great then. That atmosphere would be lost in the Alerus. Keep the dang thing in Bismarck or Minot, if there are any hotel rooms to be had in Minot like tradition calls for.
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