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Budget pieces slowly begin moving toward governor's office
By Don Davis Minnesota legislators have taken baby steps in passing a $38 billion, two-year budget that must be finished by midnight Monday. The biggest step so far was set to come late Friday or ear...
Posted on 5/17/13 at 8:49 PM
2012 Forum Forward class graduates during ceremony in Fargo
FARGO, N.D. - Eight Forum Communications Co.employees were feted this week as the 2012 Forum Forward class graduated and became alumni of the companys leadership training program started several yea...
Posted on 5/9/13 at 3:17 PM
Minnesota to Manarola-Cinque Terra' Trekking -part #1
We catch the tube (subway) to Heathrow and find out that our flight to Genoa has been canceled. We rearrange everything and head to Paris to catch connecting flight to our destination, Genoa and then ...
Posted on 11/3/12 at 11:41 PM
Candidates finally address negative ads
I have been to a lot of candidate forums during the past few months. I was at one in Worthington for education. I went to one for senior health care in Fulda. I went to a senate-only debate i...
Posted on 10/26/12 at 4:54 PM
Presidential Elections and Historic Bridge Preservation: An Interview with James Garvin
This article is the second part of the series on the dire state of New Hampshire's historic bridges and its connection with historic bridge preservation policies and the upcoming Presidential electi...
Posted on 10/22/12 at 10:55 PM
House passes bill, trims health
ST. PAUL — A bill Minnesota representatives passed late Tuesday continues to trim the state’s largest spending area, health and human services programs.
By Don Davis , May 04, 2010
Fed health bill saves Minn. millions
ST. PAUL — The U.S. House-passed health care bill will bring millions of dollars to Minnesota, helping to balance the state budget.By Don Davis , March 23, 2010
Legislature takes budget bite amid rural complaints
ST. PAUL — The fight for increasingly scarce state money is getting heated. As lawmakers approved trimming Minnesota spending by $313 million Monday, rural and urban representatives fought over some of the remaining money.By Don Davis , March 23, 2010
Pawlenty cuts bonding $313 million
By Don Davis , March 16, 2010
House passes bonding bill
ST. PAUL — Republicans blasted a public works funding bill as being too expensive, but as the Minnesota House and Senate passed a revised measure Thursday a Democrat delivered the most stinging speech against the plan written by his own party members.
By Don Davis , March 12, 2010
Pawlenty ‘can work with’ bonding bill
ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Pawlenty is looking at ways to chop a public works funding bill down to size and how to expand a sex offender facility on the cheap.By Don Davis , March 11, 2010
Absentee ballots to change
Minnesota House passes bill to alter procedure for absentee votingST. PAUL — Minnesotans should find absentee voting easier this year than in the controversial 2008 U.S. Senate election, when counting stretched for months after the November vote.
By Don Davis , March 09, 2010
Bonding bill hits new snag
By Don Davis , March 04, 2010
Legislative fighting now really begins
ST. PAUL — In some people’s minds, there is a disconnect between legislators negotiating with the governor while at the same time on the same bill overriding his veto.By Don Davis , March 01, 2010
Maneuver leads to negotiation
ST. PAUL — Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s promised veto of a public works funding bill did not happen Tuesday because legislative leaders used a rare parliamentary maneuver to hold on to the bill a bit longer.
By Don Davis , February 24, 2010
Bonding bill faces unfriendly future
ST. PAUL – A bill borrowing almost $1 billion appeared late Monday to be headed for hostile territory, Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s desk. An hour before the House began debate on the public works funding bill Monday night, Gov. Tim Pawlenty sent a letter to lawmakers saying he would veto the entire bill.By Don Davis , February 23, 2010
Private money to help foot highway bills
By Don Davis , October 28, 2009
Attorney says he can prove Fraga's innocence
Prosecution files notice of an additional offense to be offered at trial WORTHINGTON — Public Defender Cecil Naatz filed a motion asking Judge Timothy Connell to dismiss the first-degree murder indictment against his client, Josue Robles Fraga, stating certain evidence was not disclosed to the grand jury but inadmissible evidence was.January 21, 2009
Preview: Defense attorney claims evidence to show client’s innocence
Prosecution files notice of an additional offense to be offered at trialWORTHINGTON — Public Defender Cecil Naatz filed a motion asking Judge Timothy Connell to dismiss the first-degree murder indictment against his client, Josue Robles Fraga, stating certain evidence was not disclosed to the grand jury but inadmissible evidence was.
January 20, 2009
Man stabbed teacher to death
Bill Eagleman, the Devils Lake man charged with stabbing to death a longtime English teacher at the North Dakota School for the Deaf, changed his plea to guilty Tuesday in court during a pre-trial hearing.By The Dickinson Press , December 17, 2008
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