World domination wasn’t the intended theme of United States Sen. Al Franken’s visit Wednesday to Shakopee Junior High, but it became a somewhat humorous touchstone for almost every speaker at an assembly of ninth-graders.
Half of young children in the state enter kindergarten unprepared, according to the Minnesota Department of Education.
To help combat the problem, the department in October applied for a prestigious federal grant of up to $45 million to go to early childhood programs.
The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) is getting $28 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Promise Neighborhood Grant initiative. NAZ was one of 230 organizations nationwide that applied for the Promise Neighborhood Implementation Grant.
The U.S. Department of Education announced that NAZ was one of only five programs to be awarded in this round of Promise Neighborhood funding. The announcement was made in a press conference Monday at Elizabeth Hall International Elementary School 1601 Aldrich Av. N.
T-Mobile USA Inc. and Motorola Mobility Inc. said some of their mobile devices contain Carrier IQ Inc. software that collects user data, responding to U.S. Senate concerns that customer privacy is in jeopardy.
Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat who leads a Senate subcommittee on privacy, released letters today from the companies explaining their use of the software.
With the days winding down on a payroll tax holiday for 160 million Americans, leaders in Congress and its Minnesota members gave no signs Wednesday that the impasse would be broken before the New Year’s deadline.
Both parties argued over who should make the next move, even as President Obama called to urge House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to pass a bipartisan Senate measure to extend the payroll tax cut for another 60 days.
The additional funding approved for heating assistance came just in time.
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken announced Monday that $3.5 billion in critical heating assistance funding was included in the Omnibus Bill that passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 89-10.
AT&T won’t be buying T-Mobile after all.
The $39 billion potential deal was facing government opposition.
The United States was founded by scientists, based in large part on the principles of science, and science is why we have become the world’s leading economy. So it is shocking to see mainstream politicians denying the validity of science for political reasons — a practice long associated with authoritarian regimes, not the United States.
Two U.S. senators rebuffed that troubling trend on the floor of the United States senate, in a move that may signal the beginning of a new thaw in the paralysis the United States is facing on climate change and a host of other issues.
Target Field got some help from Minnesota’s Senators with Thursday’s announcement of a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for construction funding to improve the rail station and surrounding area outside the ballpark.
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken made the announcement Thursday morning.
Sen. Al Franken voted against a defense policy and funding bill Thursday because of a controversial detention provision that many liberals and some conservatives have opposed on civil liberty grounds.
