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President Obama unveils his proposal to keep college costs lower and provide students with enough financial aid so they can attend. He speaks at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
President Obama is on a five state tour promoting the economic proposals he made in his State of The Union address. He started in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at Conveyer Engineering and then into Arizona to an Intel plant. Thursday he want to Las Vegas and Denver.
Representative Giffords recently resigned from congress to focus on her recovery from an assassination attempt last year.
President Obama visits Conveyor Engineering and Manufacturing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and speaks about strengthening America’s economy.
President Obama delivers his 2012 State of The Union address at 9pm ET.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan hosted townhall forums in Minnesota to highlight the state’s nation-leading education reforms and discuss future efforts to support students.
President Obama tells the American people about a series of steps he’s taken without the help of Congress to grow the economy and create jobs — including a new strategy aimed at boosting tourism introduced this week.
A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission says the Minnesota Republican Party has continued to hide its debts.
President Obama shares his New Year’s resolution: doing whatever it takes to move the economy forward and ensure that middle class families regain the security they’ve lost in the last decade.
President Obama tells the American people that although there will be tough debates to come in the new year, by joining together, we can continue to help grow the economy and create jobs across the country.
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Minnesota Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk says plans by the Republican caucus to remove Ellen Anderson as Public Utilities Commissioner are based upon her past votes as a Senator and not her current record as Commissioner.
Minnesota Senate Deputy Majority Leader Julianne Ortman says that DFL Governor Mark Dayton’s appointment of Ellen Anderson as Public Utilities Commissioner will probably be voted down in the Senate next week.
Leaders of the Minnesota Republican House and Senate caucus will answer questions from the press about the first few days of the legislative session. We then hear from the DFL legislative leaders.
A Minnesota House committee gave approval to a bill that would let county attorneys and assistant county attorneys to carry a firearm while on duty
Senator Dibble reminds the body that the Minnesota Consitution prohibits the promotion of a particular religion which is what he says this prayer does.
For the first time representatives of the City of Minneapolis, the Minnesota Legislature and the Minnesota Vikings sit down to talk with Governor Mark Dayton about the possibility of public funding for a new Vikings football stadium.
Poor, sick undocumented immigrants in Minnesota on dialysis and cancer treatments are being kept alive thanks to appeals being filed with the help of state employees. Dayton says appeals can’t occur indefinitely. Legislature needs to act.
Minnesota Republicans have found a way to reduce the Senate’s deficit. They’re going to make the Democrats pay for it.
About 70 members of the Occupy movement for a short time occupied Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton”s waiting room this afternoon. Capitol security and state troopers ushered the group back out into the hall in front of the Governor’s office.
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As we’ve been reporting for the past six months, many tornado victims who need help still haven’t gotten it.
Occupy MN is occupying Monique White’s house at 3310 N. 6th St. in the city’s downtrodden North Minneapolis neighborhood. In doing so, Occupy MN instantly made itself more diverse, and more relevant.
When administrators revealed a plan last spring to shut down North High School — one of only two public schools on Minneapolis’ embattled north side — MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change and other activists answered the call.
North Minneapolis food entrepreneurs use Kindred Kitchen to learn about starting their own business, making their food safely and legally in a commercial kitchen, and marketing it within the community.
Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. That’s the thought behind Draw The Line Minnesota, a citizen group that is working to draw the maps for congressional and legislative districts.
This year’s FLOW art crawl was all about recognizing thousands of volunteers that helped with the clean-up and recovery efforts after the May 22nd tornado. Leaders hope the positive can-do attitude of the cleanup can power a rebirth of the Northside.
After their home in North Minneapolis was destroyed by the May 22 tornado, Dennis and Deborah were forced to seek refuge in the local Armory and at the North Commons Recreation Center. For weeks, they and their five children slept on cots on the floor of a gymnasium.
Her home destroyed and now condemned, north Minneapolis tornado victim Joyce Chineth feels abandoned by the system.
North Minneapolis resident Leonard and his family live in a house with broken windows near the corner of Knox and Lowry. For a month after the May 22 tornado that devastated the neighborhood, their gas was still turned off. Nevertheless, their landlord continues to force Leonard’s mother to pay rent, under threat of court action.
