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Is anyone seeing the game on NCHC.tv? I’m just seeing Midco programming. Disregard...just saw it’s an 8:05 start!

Hi, looking for 3 tickets together (willing to buy 4 together) for either night against CC. Lower or upper bowl is fine. Text 218-791-5738 if you have seats to sell. I'm in Grand Forks.

I think it's pretty cheap that the Big Sky waits until now to spring this on us. They could have easily sent a letter outlining their misgivings while the house and senate were debating the issue...oh well.

+1...Awesome sign idea!

Am I missing something? Why is this funny?

I like this...you could also add the following: Macnaughton Check Broadmoor Check Hobey Check Coach of the Year Check Lucia Contract Renewel Check NCAA Champ _____

You and I can still tie for 1st place...we have the exact same brackets...we both got screwed with that UNO-Michigan overtime call.

So here are the cliff notes: 1. You show up out of nowhere and have attempted to wrap your issue (privatize North Dakota colleges) into the intense dislike of the state board (which on these boards is mostly driven by their mishandling of the nickname). 2. You continually link to your blog over and over. 3. You lead everyone to believe that North Dakota taxpayers are funding $1.2 billion for higher education. 4. I ask you to source it, you link to your blog which quotes a politician. 5. I ask for a better source, you give me the governor's budget. 6. I read it and find that the actual North Dakota taxpayers are funding about half of the $1.2 billion. 7. You then tell me it's complicated, but give me another link which shows the budget to be $1.1 billion, of which only 29% is supported by North Dakota taxes. 8. You claim that tuition, fees and room/board are a form of taxation (I guess that's what you are saying) and should be included in the $1.2 billion figure. 9. You get mad when I point out you sure post your link back to your blog a lot. I certainly could be wrong, but my guess is your readers will quickly realize that the "numbers" you like to cite are a little too "complicated" for their tastes. By the way, I like the nickname, am conservative, and I hope the legislature ends up trumping the state board. As a reader of many other blogs, it's fair to say I won't be adding yours. Don't fret, as you have pointed out, it's a little too advanced for me...you should rely on more sophisticated readers. Now, I'm going to go watch the Sioux kick some Pioneer ass!

100% completely agree with you here!

You mean, like over 70% funded by non-taxpayer sources? I don't have a blog that I can link to every other post plus my signature line, but on page 2 of the link you provide: "Approximately 29 percent of operations are supported by the state general fund. The remainder of the operations of the University System are self-supporting through tuition and fees, room and board charges paid by students, and private and federal research grant and contract collections." Some may have been viewing your major argument as the $1.2 billion was out of the tax-payers pocket. I'm sure you weren't trying to do that, right?

Look, I know you really like your own blog, but maybe you should use something else to source your arguments. And by the way? Where does US News and World Reports rank our colleges? They have been at it much, much longer than Forbes.

Well, just a quick look at the budget, I see on page 42 the following: "The executive recommendation includes a $656.8 million state-funded higher education system budget for the 2011-13 biennium." If we really spent $1.2 billion last year on Higher Education, is the Governor proposing a $600 million cut? On a side note, I see that the DPI (K-12) recommendation is for $919 million (page 41). I also see on Page 40 that Higher Education constitutes 19.7% of the overall budget, in third place to Health and Human Services and Elementary and Secondary Education (29.3% and 28.7%, respectively). I don't see the $1.2 billion that you and the good Representative speak of, but I am not an accountant and could be missing something.

Hmmm...You may be right, but I'm going to have to look at this more closely. No offense, but the blog is written by you, and the Representative was responding to someone or something. Politicians like to use numbers to support their positions. I guess when the Governor signs the budget, there should be a public copy of that...should be able to take a better look.

This could be a much better solution than disbanding the whole structure...get rid of the bad apples, not the orchard.

You may be right, and I may be ignorant, but can you source your $1 billion price tag?