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The state will use more than $70 million in new revenue to protect the public from sexual predators under a budget plan approved by lawmakers. Funding for Minnesota's sex offender treatment program and for other dangerous criminals top the list of spending areas in a supplemental budget bill approved Monday by the Minnesota House on a 103-29 vote. In 2005, the Legislature passed a two-year, $31 billion budget funding state government.
Stadium debate that continued taking center stage in the Minnesota Legislature Tuesday bumped negotiations on the session's top priority, funding public works projects around the state. A House-Senate conference committee planned to meet Tuesday and start making decisions about what projects to fund, ranging from college repairs to constructing dikes to prevent flooding.
A man arrested after a tense morning-long incident last Wednesday has been formally charged in Clay County District Court. James Vernon Doran, 41, 28725 57th Ave. N., Hawley, Minn., was charged with three felonies, domestic assault by strangulation, first-degree burglary and third-degree assault; and fifth-degree assault, a misdemeanor. According to court documents, at 1:01 a.m. Wednesday law enforcement officers were called to 27814 28th Ave. N.
A man arrested after a tense morning-long incident last Wednesday has been formally charged in Clay County District Court. James Vernon Doran, 41, 28725 57th Ave. N., Hawley, Minn., was charged with three felonies, domestic assault by strangulation, first-degree burglary and third-degree assault; and fifth-degree assault, a misdemeanor. According to court documents, at 1:01 a.m. Wednesday law enforcement officers were called to 27814 28th Ave. N.
One of the rarest human gifts is the ability to concentrate. An ant is single-minded as it builds its hill. So is a barn swallow as it builds a nest in the eaves. Knock the nest down and one will be there again overnight, the product of hundreds of trips to the nearest mud puddle. But our oversized human brain leads us off in a thousand directions away from the task at hand, often paralyzing us into inaction. To numb our overactive brains, we drink martinis or watch hours of television.
This letter concerns the proposed ordinance changes that Becker County is considering and the subsequent newspaper article in the Wednesday, March 29 publication. I am writing to express a few concerns I have about this issue. While no one would argue that protecting the natural resources of Becker County is important, I am concerned that slowing down or stopping development entirely would have a severe impact on the economic future of Becker County.
Our nation's future does not look very bright considering all the rights that are being taken away from us. When our founding fathers established our government in 1775 the colonies were asked to pray for wisdom in forming a nation.
It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child. Well, I had the honor to be part of Mrs. Neff's second and third grade village at Rossman School. It all started with Mrs. Neff having me come into her class to share my experience of living in Kenya. She came up with the idea of going on an all-day safari to Kenya with the class. She planned the day and got volunteers to help. We began our safari in the library, where Captain Scott Lysford welcomed us to flight 55 from Detroit Lakes to Kenya over the intercom.
Long-term solutions are needed to wean Americans from being dependent on foreign oil, and that won't come overnight. "There is no silver bullet solution," Carl Kuhl, regional representative to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said Tuesday while in Bemidji meeting with people on the plight of high fuel costs. Coleman has several bills in the hopper, with provisions to strengthen efforts for renewable fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel which are Minnesota specialties.
Come one, come all to Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge Saturday. A special dedication will be held at the refuge office at 11 a.m.
