Digitization made possible by the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, approved by voters in 2008.
January 24, 2001 - MPR's Patty Marsicano reports that Governor Ventura's proposed budget for higher education has stunned the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Systems. They say they won't even be able to keep up with inflation, let alone proceed with their plans for vital growth.
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January 24, 2001 - MPR's Elizabeth Stawicki reports on that Minnesota's judiciary fared better than many other departments in Governor Jesse Ventura's budget plan. Still, the Governor's budget doesn't fully fund the state court system's major initiative for this legislative session, known as Crimnet. It is an integrated computer system that would allow law enforcement and courts from different jurisdictions to easily share information on criminals.
January 24, 2001 - Corina Eckl, policy director for fiscal affairs at the National Conference of State Legislatures, states that Minnesota is one of many states to have extra money in recent years. The NCSL conducts an annual survey of year-end balances or surpluses. Right now the state's surplus is projected at three billion dollars over the next two-and-a-half years.
January 24, 2001 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson talks with Duluth reporter Chris Julin, who details Governor Ventura’s Duluth visit to talk to citizens and students about the benefits of his budget. Topics included higher education, and the Iron Range economy.
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January 24, 2001 - St. Paul has picked off five hundred jobs from Minneapolis. Today a company called Personnel Decisions International announced plans to move across the river into St. Paul office buildings owned by the Minnesota Life Insurance company. St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman says the new jobs mark a continuation of the city's turnaround and are worth the one and a half million dollar subsidy the city is giving the company. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports...
January 24, 2001 - Heating bills are not the only place Minnesotans will feel this winter's soaring natural gas prices. Expensive natural gas means expensive fertilizer -- and an uncertain spring for the regions' farmers. Minnesota Public Radio's Jeff Horwich has this Mainstreet report (There's not much farming to be done in January, so John Wojtanowicz brings his mammoth potato picker in for a tune-up. Before the picker sees any action this spring, his 1200 acres of potatos will need hundreds of pounds of nitrogren. The same goes for his 2000 acres of corn and kidney beans, hungry for anhydrous ammonia and urea -- two popular fertilizers made by mixing raw nitrogen with natural gas.
January 24, 2001 - MPR’s Laura McCallum reports that Governor Ventura began taking his case to the public in St. Paul with a breakfast at the Governor's Mansion. Meanwhile the lobbying has begun in earnest as groups that feel short-changed by the Governor's budget are starting to rally their supporters.
January 25, 2001 - MPR’s Laura McCallum reports on the debate over higher education state funding between Governor Jesse Ventura and University of Minnesota president Mark Yudof. Neither side is backing down on what promises to be one of the biggest budget debates this session.