Next stop on Gov. Dayton's 'Meeting with Mark' tour is Albert Lea
Gov. Mark Dayton continues his series of trips around the state to talk about the state budget with a stop in Albert Lea on Monday.He'll be at the Albert Lea High School at 6 p.m. on April 22 for his...
View ArticleThoughts on the Boston bombing developments
Thoughts on Boston/Cambridge/Watertown (based on nothing more than the amazing live TV coverage, mostly by CNN, which seems to have sent their whole organization to Boston):We need to be extremely...
View ArticleSt. Paul youth activities get $16,000 raised at Midway Men's Club State Fair...
St. Paul officials have accepted a $16,000 donation from the Midway Men's Club and say they'll use the money for youth activities around the city.The group raised the money at its concession stand at...
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Testimony: Michele Bachmann knew of improper payouts
Since the hometown press isn’t exactly all over this ... Jennifer Jacobs of the Des Moines Register reports: “Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was aware of the financial arrangement between an Iowa...
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Testy times at the Capitol as angry Republicans walk out of committee meeting
These are testy times at the Capitol.A dozen Republicans walked out of a noontime House Ways and Means Committee session Friday, saying they were angry over “process.”Interestingly, the GOP didn’t...
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Minneapolis Gateway redevelopment planted seeds of revival
CC/Flickr/ya3hs3The Gateway redevelopment gave us the elegant Northwestern National Life Insurance Building (now ING, 20 Washington Ave. S.) whose graceful columns continue to anchor the Nicollet...
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Meet the new face of STEM: Shefali Mehta
Meet a woman who received a microscope as a gift when she was 8 years old, and was thrilled by it. A woman who took the SAT exam when she was in seventh grade, so she could qualify for a teen algebra...
View ArticleWhere Bachmann campaign probes stand after a busy week
There’s been a good amount of movement in the various ethics investigations into Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign this week, so let’s recap.Here’s one potentially new detail right off the...
View ArticleLosing bidder for St. Croix Bridge road work seeks injunction to stop...
The C.S. McCrossan construction firm, which was low bidder for roadwork on the St. Croix Bridge construction project but then lost the job, has sued the state and wants construction stopped while the...
View ArticleEducation Minnesota, the state teachers union, holds Saturday election for...
Delegates of Education Minnesota, the state's 70,000-member teacher's union, will meet this weekend in Bloomington to elect its president.Tom Dooher, president since 2007, is seeking election to a...
View ArticleDuluth airport gets more use
The number of people using Duluth International Airport is up 5 percent so far in 2013, reports Candace Renalls of the Duluth News Tribune. A total of 77,711 passengers have gone through the airport...
View ArticleGov. Dayton appoints three judges for northern Minnesota
Gov. Mark Dayton has filled three judicial posts in the state's Ninth Judicial District.Jana Austad will replace Judge John Smith, who has been appointed to the state Court of Appeals. Austad, who will...
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Senate DFL’s tax package would hit Minnesota’s top 7% of taxpayers
Senate Democrats dropped in the last piece of the state’s budget puzzle Tuesday, releasing a tax bill that calls for $1.8 billion in tax increases and a partial overhaul of Minnesota’s sales tax...
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GOP: Increased school funding means Big Government
Schools = Big Gummint.Tim Pugmire at MPR writes: “A $15.7 billion funding package for public schools is under fire from Republican lawmakers, who say the measure up for a vote Tuesday in the Minnesota...
View ArticleMSP among airports with sequester-related delays, FAA tracking website reports
Flight delays caused by sequestration furloughs of air traffic controllers are starting to affect the nation's airports, including the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.An FAA website gives...
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Marriage equality: Legislators, stand on the right side of love — and of history
Aaron Lee WittnebelLAKE PARK, Minn. — Late last year, the people of Minnesota turned down a constitutional amendment limiting the freedom to marry and, thanks in part to the amendment’s opponents, a...
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House approves free all-day kindergarten
All-day kindergarten took a large step forward Tuesday night. Says Tim Pugmire at MPR: “The Minnesota House has passed a $15.7 billion funding package for K-12 education that for the first time...
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Best Buy acknowledges mistakes, retools exec. pay
Photo courtesy of Best BuyLooking back on a tumultuous year, Best Buy’s chairman acknowledged that the company has made a number of mistakes, but he said that its turnaround efforts have cut costs and...
View ArticleSaakashvili's party seeks relevancy in the Georgia it created
Nearly 10 years after Mikheil Saakashvili helped peacefully topple the government of Georgiaamid the Rose Revolution, he and his United National Movement (UNM) party are effectively back where they...
View ArticleBerlusconi bounces back
ROME, Italy — Italians were greeted by a familiar sight this week many thought they’d never see again: Silvio Berlusconi beaming triumphantly from the front pages of the country’s newspapers.Two years...
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