It's true: We will be joining Mitch, Captain Ed, and the rest of the Northern Alliance (all those cool people in that box on the left) in bringing you the Northern Alliance Radio Network, 12-3pm Saturdays on AM 1280 The Patriot in the Twin Cities. Yours truly will be on with some regularity, focusing on higher education and the wars within academe, with an occasional discussion of economics (since supposedly this was what I was trained to do.) Our first show is currently scheduled for March 6.

We owe a big thanks, of course, to Hugh Hewitt and the management of AM 1280 the Patriot. We appreciate as well the "link love" (Captain's phraseology) from Helloooo Chapter Two and Brainstorming. I also think it's fair to say this is the first alliance blog radio show ever.

On such slender reeds are marks of distinction made.