Quote:]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:58:00 CST http://www.areavoices.com/Kailin-BO/?blog=73106 http://www.areavoices.com/Kailin-BO/?blog=73106 Hello !

So I have decided to make a blog on areavoices, my friend told me about this site and wanted me to make a blog.]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:22:00 CST http://www.areavoices.com/rinkandrun/?blog=73105 http://www.areavoices.com/rinkandrun/?blog=73105 Northland Connection No. 17 for 2009-10: Players with connections to Minnesota Duluth, Northeastern Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin. PLEASE, send along any updates of players not listed here, or corrections, deletions and other information. You can post to Rink and Run or e-mail kpates@duluthnews.com

NHL

Jason Garrison, D, Florida, 21 GP, 1-2-3; Rochester, 38 GP, 3-16-19

Alex Goligoski, D, Pittsburgh, 54 GP, 7-22-29 ]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:12:00 CST http://www.areavoices.com/rinkandrun/?blog=73102 http://www.areavoices.com/rinkandrun/?blog=73102 Minnesota Duluth recruits statistical update 2009-10:

USHL

J.T. Brown, F, Waterloo, 50 GP, 25-38-63

Justin Faulk, D, US Under 18, 45 GP, 17-7-24

Luke McManus, D, Tri City, 37 GP, 1-7-8

Matt McNeely, G, US Under 17, 30 GP, 9-16-3, 4.09, .888]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:26:00 CST http://www.areavoices.com/thenewforty/?blog=73091 http://www.areavoices.com/thenewforty/?blog=73091 7:30 AM...a fine time for breakfast at home.]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:09:00 CST http://www.areavoices.com/dahlenje/?blog=73100 http://www.areavoices.com/dahlenje/?blog=73100 I lay in bed. The mattress is warm beneath me. I am trying to be quiet. I am trying to let my sister sleep. She lies in the bed to the west of me; I am on the east side. I want to know why she always gets the west side? I have leaned over and turned my bed to 8. My grandmother worries that it will start on fire or I will get too hot. She has come in this room an hour before and set my bed on four. I have followed her in and when she asks me what we should set my bed at tonight, I am sure she has asked out of kindness, yet it doesn’t really matter what I answer… she will set it lower than I want anyway. We settle on half way between five and six. The room is fairly dark. My head is on the same wall that the window is. The window is in the middle of room, in between two single beds. There is a thin white curtain keeping out the dark. There are also drapes on the window, they match the bedspreads. They are yellow, with thin twigs. The drapes are tied back with thick gold chords that hang down. I reach out my hand to play with the tassels and feel the silkiness of the chord. Trica doesn’t want to talk; she “just wants to go to sleep.” I am quiet while I play with the tassel. I can hear my parents in the other room. I can hear them laughing about something someone said once. I am safe here. I am warm. I fight sleep, and for a while I stare into darkness. If I close my eyes I will sleep, and I am just not quite ready yet.

In the morning I wake up to the sounds of footsteps in the hallway, I hear the bathroom door close, I hear water running. I lay there and look around the room. There is a dresser at the end of my sister’s bed, and closet without a door. Grandma keeps some decorations in there, but mostly the closet is empty. When it’s Easter she keeps yellow and pink peeps in the top drawer of the dresser. My sister is still sleeping, so I turn over and face the wall. I am glad I have woken up so early. I like looking at the twigs in the bed spread. I think I could spend hours looking at those sticks. They cross over each other; I trace my finger along the maze of twigs. I look for shapes the twigs make. I know they are twigs, but they are all the same size, and they are not connected to any branches, and there certainly aren’t trees, but where did the twigs come from if there aren’t any trees?

Someone enters our room to wake us up; I don’t remember who but I am sure I ask if I can sleep on the west side next time. I am sure it is so much better than the east side]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:00:00 CST http://www.areavoices.com/vancouver/?blog=73101 http://www.areavoices.com/vancouver/?blog=73101 I had a feeling that the news on Joe Nathan wasn't going to be good.]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:55:00 CST http://www.areavoices.com/jmstsports/?blog=73099 http://www.areavoices.com/jmstsports/?blog=73099 Kidder County is 1 win from the state tournament after defeating Napoleon 53-39 in semifinal action at the Region 3 tournament in Jamestown.

Norm Nicholson and Wes Nicholson each had 12 points to lead the Pirates.]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:42:00 CST http://www.areavoices.com/jmstsports/?blog=73098 http://www.areavoices.com/jmstsports/?blog=73098 Apparently it does rain in the desert.

For the second straight day, the Jamestown College softball team was washed out in Tucson, Ariz., costing the Jimmies two more games.

The Jimmies were supposed to have opened their season on Mon...]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:28:00 CST http://www.areavoices.com/CapitolChat/?blog=73097 http://www.areavoices.com/CapitolChat/?blog=73097

Howes

Gov. Tim Pawlenty will veto a public works funding bill a House-Senate conference committee approved Tuesday night, a Republican lawmaker told his colleagues.

The main point of contention is money for a Moose Lake sex offender facility. Pawlenty wants $89 million and the Democratic-controlled Legislature is offering $47.5 million. The total bill would spend almost $1 billion.

Rep. Larry Howes, R-Walker, said that the governor's office told him Pawlenty could accept $60.5 million for the facility, but the entire bill likely will be vetoed at the level the committee approved.

Howes offered another potential scenario: Pawlenty could veto all of the bill except $63.5 million for flood prevention.

Howes tried to amend the bill to include the Moose Lake money, but the motion failed.]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:23:00 CST