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U.S. Senate recount: What’s next?
Al Franken won the U.S. Senate contest by 225 votes. That was the determination that the five-member State Canvassing Board put their signatures to on Monday. Franken duly declared victory, pronouncing himself the “next senator from Minnesota.” MORE »
Charter schools fail at most important task
Minnesota’s charter schools are not opening opportunities for students. In fact, according to a recent report by the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School, charter school students perform at a lower academic level than those at traditional public schools. MORE »
"No new taxes": T-Paw faces record deficit with familiar mantra
As the 86th two-year session of the Minnesota legislature gets under way, Gov. Tim Pawlenty says there’s at least one option off the table to fix a state budget that faces a $4.8 billion shortfall: raising taxes. MORE »
Schools brace for financial troubles
With a projected state revenue shortfall closing in on $6 billion, lawmakers are likely to be chary when eyeing funds for Minnesota’s overburdened and underfunded schools. MORE »
Policy role model
Margaret Anderson Kelliher takes being a role model seriously. “I think it is really important for girls to have role models of both genders and all races,” said the 40-year-old speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. And in her own case, “It’s important for girls to see a woman who can relate to them, and talk about what it’s like to be a girl,” she said, and added that that kind of talk helps girls expand their view of what is possible for them. MORE »
WSJ recount editorial prompts non-meek response from Judge Cleary
A much-criticized Jan. 5 Wall Street Journal editorial that called the Minnesota State Canvassing Board “meek,” Secretary of State Mark Ritchie a man of partisan “machinations,” and Al Franken — who the board determined had won 225 more votes in the statewide recount than former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman — “tainted and undeserving,” has prompted a retort from one of its targets: State Canvassing Board member Edward Cleary. MORE »
Coleman: Fight to regain seat "not just about me"
Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman vowed today to continue his fight to regain his seat by filing an election contest in Ramsey County District Court. The Republican positioned the legal move as part of an electoral process that he acknowledged is “messy and inconvenient,” but he expressed confidence in the outcome.
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Schools pay, society benefits from ECE
How do you market an investment that costs almost twice as much as the losses it’s designed to offset? One way is to wait for someone else to fund it. MORE »
