{"id":446,"date":"2006-11-17T09:08:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T15:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=446"},"modified":"2006-11-17T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T15:08:49","slug":"doin-time-on-the-north-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/doin-time-on-the-north-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Doin&#8217; Time On The North Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota is not only a beautiful state to live in, we apparently have a popular federal prisons up here too. Jeffrey Skilling of Enron &#8220;fame&#8221; is going to do his time up here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/business\/16032214.htm?source=rss&#038;channel=twincities_business\" target=\"_blank\">According to the Pioneer Press<\/a>, we have had some other infamous prisoners in the state:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former television evangelist Jim Bakker (convicted of bilking followers)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Miller, the first FBI agent convicted of spying<\/li>\n<li>Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, terrorist linked to Osama bin Laden<\/li>\n<li>Presidential fringe candidate Lyndon LaRouche (fraud, tax evasion)<\/li>\n<li>Comedian Tim Allen (cocaine trafficking in his early 20s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that list is going to make it to the Chamber of Commerce literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota is not only a beautiful state to live in, we apparently have a popular federal prisons up here too. Jeffrey Skilling of Enron &#8220;fame&#8221; is going to do his time up here. According to the Pioneer Press, we have had some other infamous prisoners in the state: Former television evangelist Jim Bakker (convicted of bilking followers) Richard Miller, the first FBI agent convicted of spying Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, terrorist linked to Osama bin Laden Presidential fringe candidate Lyndon LaRouche (fraud, tax evasion) Comedian Tim Allen (cocaine trafficking in his early 20s) I don&#8217;t think that list is going to make it to the Chamber of Commerce literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":452,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/civic-minded-millennials\/","url_meta":{"origin":446,"position":0},"title":"Civic-Minded Millennials","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The justsell.com guys reference an interesting study that came out last month regarding the Millennial generation (born between 1979 and 2001). 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