June 2, 1999 - The Saint Paul school board will consider 10-and-a-half million dollars in spending cuts to balance next year's budget. District administrators last night outlined a budget proposal that includes teacher layoffs and increased class sizes.
June 2, 1999 - City officials in Golden Valley shut off the water to a local motel after sending repeated notices to settle old bills. Once the water was shut off, motel management had to turn guests away -- MANY of whom were clients of a homeless shelter run by sharing and caring hands in Minneapolis.
June 2, 1999 - Regions Hospital in St. Paul will break ground next week on a $62 million expansion and renovation project. Hospital officials say the project is a repsonse to changing demographics and advances in medicine.
June 2, 1999 - Officials today announced plans to transfer ownership of a small portion of one of the largest undeveloped tracts of land in the twin cities metro area from the Department of defense. Just under 40 acres of the 24 hundred acre site of the former Twin Cities Army Ammunition plant will be turned over to Ramsey County and the city of Arden Hills for a maintenance facility and a new city hall. Officials say they hope the transfer is the first step in opening up the land to more public use and development.
June 3, 1999 - The publisher of Governor Ventura's autobiography - I Ain't Got Time to Bleed - reports the book is selling well. According to Villard Press, it hits the New York Times bestseller list June 13, coming in at number 15 in hardcover non-fiction.
June 3, 1999 - State officials say Minnesota businesses getting government subsidies are creating more jobs than anticipated, and they're paying higher wages. A new report from the Department of Trade and Economic Development comes less than four months after a public policy group said state taxpayers are paying a high price to subsidize low wage jobs.
June 3, 1999 - Norman Leyden leads the Minnesota Orchestra's Cabaret Pops concerts at 11 A-M and 8 P-M tomorrow and at 8 Saturday night.
June 3, 1999 - News that the state's oldest lawfirm is going out of business has attracted public attention...namely because it's a distinguished lawfirm that goes back to Minnesota's territorial days.
June 4, 1999 - The first refugee family from Kosovo to resettle in Minnesota arrived last night in the Twin Cities. Refugee workers from the World Relief organization and a "host family" were there to greet them. Although there's talk of peace for Kosovo, there's no telling when, or even if, this family will go home.
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