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Both institutions are facing severe cash shortages despite already making significant cuts.

According to Cleo Kreitzi reporting for MinnPost, this proposal is intended as a temporary measure while longer-term solutions are considered for a growing system-wide deficit that could reach over ninety million dollars in a few years.

The plan has sparked intense debate and concern among students, faculty, and college leaders, especially at the two-year colleges that would bear most of the cost.

Laurie Kloos, president of St.

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Anna Radalat at MinnPost, who was pointing out that this is a guideline, not a law, and it bars actions-

It's a courtesy.

Right.

Uh, but at any rate, uh, the point ma- being made here, just a reminder of how much Tom Emmer has debased himself for power, this time calling up a screenshot from Minnesota's newspaper.

Th- this here, uh, the, the website MinnPost.

Although what that is exactly, I'm not sure.

But, uh, I'm sure a, uh, news aggregation site f- Minnesota-based with this headline from, what, what's our date here? 2015.

Margaret.

And then apparently she's a featured political reporter for MinnPost.com.

Oh, and still.

She still is?

Minnesota, wait, where is this? Is this the Minnesota Chamber? Some poll taken.

MinnPost.

MinnPost poll.

That public safety was waning, has been waning as a priority.

Almost half of what it was just a couple of years ago.

Mm.

The University of Minnesota has it, and there's, uh, something called MinnPost.

Some of it is online.

Mm.

Um, so the awards, you know, bearing fruit for, for all of us already.

But, um, I, I'm glad that, uh, my colleague on the beat, Pat Borzi from MinnPost thought to ask about it.

Because I didn't think to ask about it in May because I, I was, I was standing there.

Um, but, you know, and, and mentioned it.

Dane Smith knows the difference between covering a political accusation and investigating whether it actually holds up.

Dane has explored Minnesota's fraud narrative in a Star Tribune commentary, a MinnPost essay, and a companion fact sheet.

His MinnPost commentary, hard data, and contexts are missing from the Minnesota's overblown fraud furor challenges the claim that Minnesota is uniquely bad at preventing fraud.

He also points readers to the data, research, and legislative decisions behind the headlines.

We'll talk about his years in the newsroom, the context he says is missing, and what accountability should look like for everyone involved.

yeah yeah and now let's just jump into the fraud because that's kind of what the whole discussion the rest of the discussion is going to cover today you've written about it we've written about it um back when you first started you were asking about minnesota's ranking um in in April of 2025.

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what changed by your August 2026 MinnPost pieces? And what do you think still needs reporting? Because you acknowledge, like we do, you acknowledge the real fraud failures and the failures of oversight, but argue the public is getting a distorted picture.

And so that's caused Chris Finch to rearrange, to make some plans, to coordinate plans for some of the things that were on Mike's plate to go on other coaches' plates, including Chris Finch.

And in talking, uh, to Britt Robson of MinnPost, and we brought this up, I think, in our last Flagrant, I'm just gonna read you the end of a Finch quote and state my hypothesis off that.

Okay? "On late game stuff," Finch said, "I'll take s- uh, some of that back.

I look at it the same as when we lose players.