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Watchdog’s Scariest People of 2015: No. 17
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“I said no, I said I’m done, and I love teaching,” said Kirstin Rogers, who gave up on her application upon moving from Utah and joined a lawsuit against the state board.
Read More →City considers law preventing most residents from renting their homes
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“If you and I were next door neighbors, and you already had your house rented out, I’m screwed,” said Burnell Beermann, a 76 year old homeowner who opposes the ordinance. “That’s the thing, it ain’t right. If they’ve got concerns with behavior, they should address the behavior.”
Read More →74-year-old home-care worker challenges signature on union card; gets refund
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“He sent me a copy of what I supposedly signed, and it doesn’t look anything like my signature at all,” Johansen said. “I’m left-handed, the letters are all formed differently. So they didn’t have my signature. Somebody else just signed my name to it.”
Read More →School vouchers mean equal opportunity in Minnesota
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School vouchers can be a means to provide equal opportunity in a state with the worst economic disparity between white and minority citizens, Andy Brehm, a senior fellow at the Center for the American Experiment, writes in the Minnesota Post.
In Minnesota, 85 percent of white students graduate from high school on time, while only 49 percent of […]
Residents taking shot on booze task force in hopes of reviving muni sales
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In response to a proposed 7 percent property tax hike to offset a drop in liquor revenue, City Hall is putting together an alcohol task force of taxpayers.
Read More →18 months later, still no contract for part-time Minnesota profs
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A year and a half after voting in the first union for part-time faculty at a private Minnesota college or university, adjunct instructors at Hamline University remain without a contract to show for it. But the two sides remain deadlocked on a compensation package for some 200 adjunct professors in talks with an atmosphere the campus’ union steward has described as “temper and tension in the air.”
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