submitted by Matt Bartel
Jan 26 2006 — 2:00am
Pawlenty is recommending almost $20 million in new funding for UMN Rochester. Is it a good idea to continue expansion of out-state higher educational programs or should we concentrate our efforts on the Twin Cities campus?
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Can't be more predictable than yankees.
Enh, at least some good came out of it. Eventually.
If Hardy can find his form from two years ago it will be a fantastic trade. Go-go was at best a defensive center fielder. If he could have learne...
I agree. The Yankees are boringly predictable.
This is why the Twins are the Twins and the Yankees are the Yankees. Let's see, should we go for Hardy or Teixera? Hmmm.
I tink peraps it is te curc of Crist, Marybet414.
If I can c(h)ime in...I left the 'H' behind years ago and indeed there is no better way. The church of Crist... Bless you all.
I like the guy, but I have to admit he was a bit disappointing.
Just about every time we went to a game at the dome, you'd hear "fans" (quote marks emphasized) trashing GoGo loudly, which made me want to stand ...
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11 Reader Comments
5:43 pm
Translation: OMFG, plz vote for me!!11!!!
5:48 pm
only $20? that’s not so bad, I think we can swing that. You know, take up a collection. hee hee. joshing you, matt. welcome to the snakepit.
5:54 pm
Oops.
add $19,999,980.
6:58 pm
Bad idea.
Pawlenty is just trolling for votes. They’ve been cutting back on outstate campuses for years, due to lack of enrollment and the desire to centralize. The U has been talking about axing the Crookston campus for years, but it plays (very) poorly in the legislature…
9:47 pm
Ax Crookston for Rochester. If there’s one place there should be a university, it is Rochester. If our politicians weren’t so concerned for their own ass they’d cut back the whole MnSCU thing.
10:47 pm
Luke has it absolutely right. Timmy’s just thinking, “If I can bullshit Rochester just a little more, maybe I can beat Hatch this fall.”
The guy’s pathetic. He’ll spend $34 million to open a branch of the U in Rochester while the Minneapolis campus continues to lose top profs and students to other state universities who will offer the profs more money and the students better research opportunties. We better wake the hell up here, and soon, or the greatest economic engine this state has, the U of M, will be second rate…just like our governor.
11:37 pm
TBartel: Yup. And don’t forget that Rochester has been trending DFL. Kerry won there, and they have a couple new DFLers in the Legislature. This is core Republican territory that Pawlenty needs to hold on to.
2:38 am
MN Daily had it wrong. The strib is now saying $38 million.
9:33 am
Most of Minnesota is no more “out state” than it is “rural”. How about referring to it as something like “unmetro” instead?
11:00 am
The appropriate euphemism is “Greater Minnesota”.
11:56 am
Just like me living in “Greater Uptown.”