{"id":89535,"date":"2025-04-21T06:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89535"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:01:26","slug":"the-press-conference-id-like-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89535","title":{"rendered":"The Press Conference I&#8217;d Like To See:  Take 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TAKE 2:\u00a0 A couple of key paragraphs disappeared from this one on Friday, the first time I tried it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>SCENE:\u00a0\u00a0 A press conference at the Minnesota State University system.\u00a0\u00a0 Spokesperson Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK stands nervously in front of a podium, facing a gaggle of barely-engaged press, and Mitch BERG of Shot in the Dark\/AM1280\/HotAir.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:\u00a0\u00a0 So, with the changes in federal funding, it appears the Minnesota State University system is going to have to make unprecedented hikes to tuition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minnesota State school officials mull what could be the largest tuition hike in more than a decade <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rx4ci1jeUB\">https:\/\/t.co\/Rx4ci1jeUB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; KARE 11 (@kare11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kare11\/status\/1913022429850456525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:  Any questions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:\u00a0 Yes &#8211; wouldn&#8217;t that $18 billion in surplruses that the DFL wasted in 2023 and 2024 have come in handy for this?<\/p>\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:\u00a0 <em>No hablo ingles&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: \u00a0 <em>Si no hubi\u00e9ramos desperdiciado el excedente, \u00bfseguir\u00eda siendo un problema?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:  No further questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:&nbsp; That was English. <\/p>\n<p>(<em>But Birkenstock has left the podium<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>(<em>And<\/em> SCENE). <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAKE 2:\u00a0 A couple of key paragraphs disappeared from this one on Friday, the first time I tried it&#8230; SCENE:\u00a0\u00a0 A press conference at the Minnesota State University system.\u00a0\u00a0 Spokesperson Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK stands nervously in front of a podium, facing a gaggle of barely-engaged press, and Mitch BERG of Shot in the Dark\/AM1280\/HotAir.\u00a0 BIRKENSTOCK:\u00a0\u00a0 So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-education","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89540,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89535\/revisions\/89540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}