I’m not sayin’ that serving beer at Gopher football games is inevitable. I’m just sayin’ that I snapped this shot of pre-installed beer taps in the stadium last fall: This was on the 3rd floor in the DQ Club Room. This is only accessible by people in box seats, as I understand it, so it’s [...]
MN Daily has published a list of the top-100 salaries at the University of Minnesota. A few highlights: Tubby tops the list. 1 of the top-10 highest paid is a professor. The 100th highest paid employee makes $220,000. No word on what Goldie makes, but considering that he’s likely in the athletic department, I’m assuming [...]
Congratulations to Leonid Hurwicz for bringing home a Nobel Prize: Hurwicz, 90, is the oldest Nobel winner ever, according to the academy. “I really didn’t expect it,” said the Moscow-born researcher, an emeritus economics professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The three winners “laid the foundations of mechanism design theory,” which plays a [...]
Thanks to Governor Tim Pawlenty’s underfunding of transit in Minnesota in an attempt to maintain his “no new taxes, and . . . um . . . fees aren’t taxes” pledge, I was feathering my clutch across town this evening listening to Bumper to Bumper with Barrerio on KFAN where I heard about a Star [...]
