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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Olive Garden!
OMG, Olive Garden might be coming. That’s pretty much the response so far on my story about the restaurant’s advance scouts visiting Grand Forks City Hall for some info. Thanks to a kind anonymous tipster for this one. I might … Continue reading
Tagged business, GF and EGF
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Alerus Center commission and open meetings laws
Update 9:35 a.m. Oct. 30, 2009: I had a little bit of trouble with AreaVoices or my browser crashing on me last night so I accidentally left the part out about how I don’t think John Q. Public can ask … Continue reading
Alerus Center getting reimbursement of management fee
Update 1:11 a.m. Oct. 29, 2009: The City Beat has to apologize for misleading some readers about how the numbers work. I did say I wasn’t sure about certain things. The biggest of those uncertainties is where the $97,000 loss … Continue reading
The hot kitchen of modern political discourse
So, at long last, the angry right’s response to any hint of mockery is to turn to a favorite tactic of the angry left: Political correctness. Listen to the pitiable tone of the letter that Rob Port, the proprietor of … Continue reading
Tagged frivolous links
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UND, NDSU tuition getting pretty close to average
While we’re on the theme of higher ed costs, I ran across this post the other day from Inside Higher Ed. It’s got several interesting tables showing tuition and fee trends around the nation, which allows us to compare our … Continue reading
Tagged budgets and taxes, college tuition, higher education, NDSU, sbhe, UND
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NDSU’s substitute helmsman
NDSU’s interim president was selected pretty quickly by the State Board of Higher Education when the group met Friday. Most of the debate was simple comfirmation of Chancellor Bill Goetz‘s recommendation. In other words, there really wasn’t any debate. Dick … Continue reading
Tagged higher education, NDSU, sbhe
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UND’s clean coal project
About two weeks ago, the City Beat got a press release from UND about this new research project to improve so-called "clean coal" technology. We’re just running the story today because it took me that long to figure out how … Continue reading
How much should university presidents be paid?
Update 8:23 p.m. Oct. 22, 2009: OK, I have more time now to throw out some more info about the salaries of North Dakota university presidents. The gist of the story I got today out of the State Board of … Continue reading
Quickies: How to fight the flu and fail
UNC decides to teach first year Spanish, but it’s available only online. What could go wrong? [via a Facebook friend of mine.] What the heck? The New York Times covers Joseph Chapman‘s resignation? Man, I love stories about floating homes. … Continue reading
Tagged frivolous links, higher education, NDSU, public health, UND
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Moving local elections for the sake of students
UND student leaders said the other day that they wanted the Grand Forks City Council to help them move the city elections from June to November so students have an easier time participating. They were told by the city that … Continue reading
