News Day
NEWS DAY | Homes at risk in Minnesota / Dragons, dinosaurs and Quist / Students vs. superintendent candidate
Minnesotans losing homes A record 92,500 Minnesota homes are either in foreclosure or in danger of foreclosure, reports the Star Tribune. Altogether, that's just over ten percent of the 900,000 home loan mortages in the state. Some 62,000 mortgage holders were behind don their mortgages during the third quarter. MORE
• Minnesotans losing homes Foreclosure and delinquency rates at record levels
• Dragons, dinosaurs and Quist Allen Quist is back, as a far-right First District candidate
• SPPS superintendent candidate sees no relation between race, achievement gap
NEWS DAY | Superintendent candidate: Race not related to achievement gap
Deb Henton, the third finalist to be interviewed for SPPS superintendent, raised some eyebrows with her assertion that poverty has something to do with the achievement gap, but that "I do not think that race has a role in the achievement gap."MORE »
NEWS DAY | Quist on the right: Dragons, dinosaurs and Darwin
Allen Quist announced this week that he will run against Congressmember Tim Walz in Minnesota's First District. He served in the Minnesota legislature in the 1980s and wrested the Republican gubernatorial nomination away from incumbent Republican Arne Carlson in the convention, only to lose to Carlson by a resounding 2-1 margin in the primary.MORE »
NEWS DAY | Minnesotans losing homes
A record 92,500 Minnesota homes are either in foreclosure or in danger of foreclosure, reports the Star Tribune.MORE »
NEWS DAY | MN unemployment edges up: 7.6 percent / Policing the police in Minneapolis / TiZa hit with fines
Minnesota’s unemployment rose to 7.6 percent in October, the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) reported this morning. That’s up 0.2 percent from September, but still far below the national rate of 10.2 percent for October. The state added 2,200 jobs in October, with the strongest growth coming in temp jobs, especially in the professional and business sector. MORE
• MN unemployment edges up: 7.6 percent Also: HCMC cutting jobs, UCB running out
• Policing the police in Minneapolis Gag rules for CRA
• TiZA hit with fines MDE fines TiZA for unlicensed teachersMORE »
NEWS DAY | TiZA hit with fines
Minnesota Commissioner of Education Alice Seagren announcedthat the Minnesota Department of Education will fine charter school Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA) almost $140,000 for employing teachers who do not hold valid teaching licenses or permits last year.MORE »
NEWS DAY | Policing the police in Minneapolis
File a complaint with the Civilian Review Authority in Minneapolis and you may never hear what happens to it.MORE »
NEWS DAY | MN unemployment edges up to 7.6 percent
Minnesota's unemployment rose to 7.6 percent in October, the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) reported this morning.MORE »
NEWS DAY | MN Dept of Health withholding H1N1 clinic info / Above average, but slipping / Stupid criminals on YouTube / Omar Jamal
Want flu shot info? MN Dept of Health won’t tell you More H1N1 vaccine has been shipped to Minnesota, but the news has been kept quiet by the Minnesota Health Department, reports MPR: MORE
• Want flu shot info? MN Dept of Health withholding H1N1 clinic info - but here are some clinic locations
• Above average, but slipping MN is now only number 6 in health
• Stupid criminals on YouTube Twin Cities police are tracking them
• Omar Jamal Now at the UNMORE »
NEWS DAY | Omar Jamal to UN
Omar Jamal, executive director of the St.MORE »
