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News Day: Contract or furlough? / Crippling health care / Taking away the children / Comic relief, more
Contract or furloughs or both? State workers who are members of AFSCME and MAPE "won't be required to take unpaid furloughs under a tentative two-year contract reached Wednesday with the state, according to the unions," reports the Strib.MORE »
Stimulus money for new highway project
The Met Council's advisory board voted to approve an $86 million expansion on Highway 610 in Maple Grove. The rest of the $230 million dollars in stiumulus money will go toward road repairs and funding small projects. KFAI's Gabrielle Miller spoke about the decision to Transit for Livable Communities' Barb Thoman.
News Day: Too much testing / "People will die" / Home sales rise, prices plunge / more
Too much testing MN students face high-stakes GRAD tests and MCA II tests this week. For the first time, high school graduation hinges on the 11th grade math GRAD test, and that means failure to graduate for many, unless the law is changed.MORE »
News Day: T-Paw: No new senator /From snow to fire /When is a Republican not a Republican? /Michelle again, more
No new Senator T-Paw told MSNBC that the Senate race will take "a few more months" until "we get a proper result." Minnesota Independent reports that Pawlenty said he won't sign an election certificate until the appellate process is over.MORE »
Guess who will save us now
by Daniel Cubias MORE »
News Day: Gunned down by Mpls cop / Eight workers for every opening / Coleman concedes, sort of / more
Evidence: Fong Lee unarmed when shot by Mpls police "Contrary to what Minneapolis police have claimed, Fong Lee didn't have a gun in his right hand when a patrolman chased him and then shot him eight times," according to a nationally recognized video forensics expert who reviewed surveillance camera photos, repoMORE »
News Day: All flood, all the time / Justice system stumbling / Post office bomb threats echo past / more
All flood, all the time As the level of the Red River slowly recedes, MPR continues to be an excellent source for flood-related news, if little else at the moment. Fifteen of the last 20 stories posted on-line (as of 7:30 a.m.MORE »
News Day: NPR fear-mongering / Walgreens stiffing seniors / Michelle Minute / MN Job Watch / Around the world / more
Somali teens and NPR fear-mongering In more of the irresponsible fear-mongering that has characterized National Public Radio's reporting on missing Somali youth, this morning's Morning Edition story by Dina Temple Raston repeated unsubstantiated and discredited allegationsMORE »
News Day: MN unemployment up to 8.1% / Liberian countdown / Best AIG advice / Civil rights in Minneapolis / more
UPDATED: Minnesota's unemployment hit 8.1 percent in February, matching the national rate, as the state shed 13,300 jobs during the month, according to the Department of Employment and Economic Development.MORE »
News Day: Bachmann again / Dirty coal, clean wind / CCC to Americorps / Budget battles / MN Job Watch / Sara Jane, AIG, more
Bachmann earmarks: Yes, you did! "I have not taken earmarks in the last three years that I've been in Congress, because the system is so corrupt."
But, reports MnIndy, "government watchdog groups say she has requested them—seven, to be precise, totaling $3,767,600, since she was elected to the U.S.MORE »
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