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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

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Funding split

Constitutional amendment would raise money for outdoors, arts programs

10/06/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
ST. PAUL — Most Minnesotans agree the state’s water needs to be cleaned up.

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Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, DFL-Minneapolis, and Republican leader Marty Seifert of Marshall agree the economy and job growth are key issues in legislative races this fall.  staff photo by Scott Wente
Legislators agree economy and jobs are key issues

Election to shape state House

10/06/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
ST. PAUL – Minnesota House Democrats hope for a supermajority from next month’s election. Republicans would be thrilled with simple majority control, but would consider it a success just to narrow the margin Democrats hold.

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Customs cuts seen as threat to Duluth port

10/03/2008 12:00 AM
Cuts in the staffing of Duluth’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations could jeopardize the city’s future as an international port and handler of cross-border air traffic.

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Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, left, DFL-Minneapolis, answers questions at a Minnesota Transportation Alliance-sponsored candidate forum Thursday at the Hampton Inn. Rep. Brita Sailer, DFL-Park Rapids, and Rep. Bernie Lieder, DFL-Crookston, joined House 2B and House 4A candidates. Pioneer Photo/Monte Draper
House Speaker Margaret Kelliher answers questions at a candidate forum

Despite gasoline tax hike, transportation needs money

10/03/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
A major infusion of $6.4 billion into Minnesota’s transportation system amounts to only a third of what’s actually needed, say transportation lobbyists.

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Veterans officer sentenced to probation, fine on theft charge

10/03/2008 12:00 AM
WILLMAR — The Kandiyohi County veterans service officer was sentenced Thursday to five years of probation, a $1,000 fine and a host of conditions on a felony theft charge for taking money veterans paid for bus rides to the Veteran Affairs hospital.

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Enbridge fined for fatal pipeline accident

10/02/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
Enbridge Energy committed eight probable violations and could pay up to $2.4 million in fines for the November 2007 fire that killed two Superior-based workers, according to an investigation filed Wednesday by the Pipeline and Hazardous Mate-rial Safety Administration.

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Charitable gambling industry down on its luck -- wants state to reduce taxes

10/01/2008 12:00 AM
A year after a statewide smoking ban went into effect, charitable gambling operations in Minnesota aren’t feeling so lucky.

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Chad Revier stands by his record-setting pumpkin Saturday at the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth pumpkin contest in Stillwater. Submitted photo
Chad Revier takes first and third place in Stillwater contest

Rural Spicer man sets new state record for biggest pumpkin

10/01/2008 12:00 AM
The biggest pumpkin on record in the state of Minnesota was grown in a small pumpkin patch in rural Spicer, Minn.

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Bailout splits Minnesota lawmakers

09/30/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
ST. PAUL – Minnesota's U.S. representatives agree Congress needs to help fix the country's financial crisis, but on Monday divided their votes on a $700 billion plan to do that.

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Farm Bureau says 'no' to outdoors and arts amendment

09/29/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
The Minnesota Farm Bureau has come out against a constitutional amendment that would boost the state sales tax to support outdoors and arts programs.

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Pawlenty in Europe on trade mission

09/29/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is in Europe for the next few days.

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Red Wing's Bierstube bartender Leo Dressen hasn’t had an asthma-related incident since Minnesota’s smoking ban took effect Oct. 1, 2007. And now a study proves that his exposure to cancer-causing agents in smoke has been dramatically reduced. Cody Buckalew/RiverTown Newspaper Group
Bartender Leo Dressen reports better health since smoking ban

Science backs the smoke-free workplace law

09/26/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
Bartender Leo Dressen of Red Wing is absolutely convinced he’s healthier today because of Minnesota’s Freedom to Breathe Act.

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School teacher recruitment and pay need reform, Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren and Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Tuesday in announcing the governor's first set of proposals ahead of the 2009 legislative session.  staff photo by Scott Wente
Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren and Gov. Tim Pawlenty

Teacher prep, pay hikes targeted

09/24/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Teacher salary increases should be tied to student achievement and the quality of school instruction needs to improve, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said while touting his first batch of 2009 legislative proposals.

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Minnesota takes lead in effort to stop invasive species

09/24/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL — Minnesota jumped to the lead among Great Lakes states Tuesday night in the battle against invasive species with new rules regulating ballast water.

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Gov. Tim Pawlenty.  staff photo by Scott Wente
Gov. Tim Pawlenty

Pawlenty: Reform teacher hiring

09/23/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota State News
ST. PAUL – Minnesota should improve the way it hires and pays school teachers, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said as he prepared to release new education initiatives.

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A stack of Al Franken's books yielded plenty of material for Gina Countryman and the Minnesota Republican Party, which did extensive research on the Democratic Senate candidate. Countryman was a research director before becoming the state GOP's spokeswoman.
Gina Countryman researches Franken's books for GOP ad material

Research preceded tight Senate race

09/23/2008 12:00 AM
Minnesota News
ST. PAUL – The books are dog-eared, marked up and full of paper tabs holding certain pages.

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