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U of M seeks state funding; lawmakers want admin. spending answers

U of M seeks state funding; lawmakers want admin. spending answers

Students and top officials from the University of Minnesota are rallying at the Capitol today. It's an annual tradition in which they urge legislators to support the university's budget requests. But this year they're doing it amid an uproar over administrative spending.
by Alex Friedrich

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Renovated St. Paul crime lab costs more, will do less

Renovated St. Paul crime lab costs more, will do less

The St. Paul City Council released more than a million dollars in funding to fix the troubled St. Paul police crime lab. The lab will not resume drug testing, work which will be outsourced, but instead will focus on fingerprints, crime scene processing, video analysis and reconstructing crash scenes.
by Madeleine Baran

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If you could have $1 million to improve your community, what would you do with it?

The Minnesota Idea Open and the St. Paul Foundation are sponsoring a competition to find the best idea for revitalizing St. Paul, and they will award $1 million toward implementing it. Today’s Question: If you could have $1 million to improve your community, what would you do with it?
by Eric Ringham

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Worker burned at Minn. Crystal Sugar factory

Officials are saying little about an accident that seriously burned a worker at the American Crystal Sugar Co. plant in East Grand Forks last week.

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Small towns look to Legislature for help with aging school buildings

Small towns look to Legislature for help with aging school buildings

Two small Minnesota towns are struggling with the same problem: flooding that left the local school buildings in bad shape. In Rushford-Peterson and Moose Lake, the damages were repaired and students are back in school, but officials in both districts say the fixes are temporary.
by Elizabeth Baier

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Red Wing mayor lobbies for silica sand industry

Red Wing mayor lobbies for silica sand industry

Red Wing's Mayor Dennis Egan has taken a new job as executive director of the newly-created Minnesota Industrial Sand Council. The council is a group of companies with interests in mining silica sand and providing services to the industry. Officials in other southeastern Minnesota cities don't know much yet about the council, but some say best practices should be left to state officials and not an industry group.
by Elizabeth Baier

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Cold fusion a hot idea for Minnesota research into sustainable energy

Cold fusion a hot idea for Minnesota research into sustainable energy

A small company is gambling that a new line of scientific research could lead to development of a breakthrough alternative energy. Researchers with the Hunt Utilities Group are focused on a theoretical energy source once commonly known as cold fusion. They're asking new questions about the technology widely dismissed by the mainstream scientific community.
by Tom Robertson

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