Bob CollinsSen. Oley Larsen, R-Minot, came up with the idea that would have required the state-owned Bank of North Dakota to create a $5,000 account for each newborn of state residents, the Fargo Forum reports. The money could be used later in life to attend a state college, start a business, farm or buy a house, or pay for nursing home care.
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Archives for March 2015
Those Minnesotan ice-dam specialists who rode to the rescue in Massachusetts are getting some Bostonian love today. Read more →
Finding critics of MNsure, the state health exchange, isn’t hard. But when Tom Forsythe says it’s time to bury the current version of the troubled operation, he commands some attention; he’s on the MNsure board of directors. Read more →
Even if we didn’t enjoy reading legal briefs and court decisions, we’d probably be able to curl up with Portland, Oregon resident Kathleen Hampton’s lawsuit against a restaurant.
Her brief — she’s representing herself — is seeking $100,000 because the restaurant was mean to her. Read more →
You had to know there was a great story behind these tweets yesterday from Star Tribune reporter Libor Jany of basketball-playing Prince. Read more →
The NTSB said the pilot likely lost control after its canopy opened in flight, but it says it cannot determine whether wake turbulence from a jet landing at St. Cloud airport had anything to do with the crash. Read more →
Paul Magers, the former anchor of KARE 11 who ruled Twin Cities local TV while he was here, has made his national debut. Sort of. Read more →
Cooler heads have prevailed near Los Angeles where a high school girl’s basketball team was disqualified from the playoffs because they wore uniforms to call attention to breast cancer. Read more →
Farmers in the path of the enormous CapX2020 electric transmission line project have won a victory at the Minnesota Supreme Court against utility companies involved in the project. Read more →
If there’s a fight over farming and freedom, it probably involves milk. Read more →
Many people in Boston apparently haven’t had enough snow yet. What’s wrong with them? Read more →
The efforts of Pioneer Press reporter Mara Gottfried to help find the family of a homeless vet who froze to death in a St. Paul park is the type of story to make you want to call that relative with whom you’ve lost touch. Read more →
But yesterday’s announcement is type that sends shivers down the spine of working stiffs. The good times only last so long, and any of us can be next. Read more →
When Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson died in the February 1959 plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa while enroute to Fargo, the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled the cause was pilot error and weather. Another pilot, L.J. Coon is getting some attention in the news today, telling the Read more →
Not every love story can have a happy ending.
Rebekah Gregory, 27, and Pete DiMartino, 30, were married 10 months ago. Read more →