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Apr. 11, 2003
Promising to save higher education and give tax cuts to middle-income families, the House DFL members announced their state budget plan Thursday morning at the governor's mansion.
The plan comes three days after Senate DFL members released their own budget plan.
Apr. 10, 2003
Legislators trying to prevent repeats of this year's removal of state work-study grants and reduction of child care grants considered a bill Wednesday that would put all financial aid into the hands of institutions.
Apr. 08, 2003
Higher education, K-12 education and health care program cuts in the House and governor's budget plans will harm the state's future, Senate Democrats said Monday.
Apr. 08, 2003
Concerned about the future of the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office, officials and employees debated Monday the House bill that would unite two state higher education organizations and allow the governor to appoint its new director.
Apr. 08, 2003
Protesters dressed as clowns gathered at the State Capitol on Monday to protest the addition of the "Women's Right to Know" amendment to a bill legalizing circuses around Minnesota State Fair time.
Apr. 04, 2003
Grant-receiving students attending private, for-profit schools in Minnesota got a reprieve from the Senate Higher Education Budget Division on Thursday afternoon.
Mar. 27, 2003
When the state government is millions of dollars in debt, people start to miss the little things first. Minnesota commuters are tightening their belts and bracing for quite a long, bumpy ride ahead.
Mar. 27, 2003
The Higher Education Services Office - responsible for distributing all state financial aid to students - will become a Cabinet agency if a bill introduced in the House Higher Education Finance Committee becomes law.
Mar. 14, 2003
Minnesota's first commuter railroad might still go forward, despite a national economic decline and the subsequent reduction of state transportation funds.
Mar. 13, 2003
The University Board of Regents will get its first glimpse today at how the state's budget crisis might impact the institution for the next two years.
Mar. 11, 2003
tate work-study and child care programs will likely be diminished again for the 2004-05 biennium, Higher Education Services Office director Robert Poch told a House committee Monday.
Mar. 10, 2003
Community members showed support for Coleen Rowley at Hamline University on Friday, days after the FBI whistleblower warned that the bureau was unprepared for the terrorist attacks that could come after a U.S. attack on Iraq.
Mar. 10, 2003
Democrat U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum told International Women's Day attendees Saturday that the George W. Bush administration's policies are detrimental to women's rights here and around the world.
Mar. 10, 2003
The stereotype goes like this: The French artist dines on wine and cheese and talks diplomatically about war, while the self-reliant American cowboy cleans his gun, indifferent to a world of opposition and ready to shoot.
Mar. 07, 2003
Hundreds of students joined in singing the "Minnesota Rouser" in Coffman Union on Thursday and hoped their chorus would reach the State Capitol.
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