Good. Don’t go to NC. If they are Minnesota state employees, shouldn’t they just be doing their jobs in Minnesota, anyway?
Professional conferences: things like this:
http://www.sesug.org/
2017 meeting at RTP.
Employee writes a great statistics program and shows it off to the world.
Hmmm....it wasn’t that long ago that tapping your toe in the MSP restroom would get you arrested. Now the gov is going there and writing “for a good time, call Mark.” on the wall.