Wednesday, May 22 2013 9:47 AM EDT2013-05-22 13:47:56 GMT
Lawmakers in St. Paul finished on time, getting their $38 billion budget passed just before midnight last night. It included increased taxes on the rich, smokers and the end of millions of dollars
DFL accomplished most of their goals at the Capitol
Wednesday, May 22 2013 9:47 AM EDT2013-05-22 13:47:14 GMT
Members of the Minnesota Republican caucus arrived at the Mankato Regional Airport to discuss their take on the recent legislative session. After the 2013 session came to a close at midnight, the Minnesota
Minority leaders object to tax increases, Vikings Stadium bailout and pretty much everything else
Tuesday, May 21 2013 11:49 PM EDT2013-05-22 03:49:49 GMT
Victoria Charnaud shared her bed with all three of her children when they were newborns, including Lucy who is three months old. She believes co–sleeping creates an emotional bond between parents and
The finding comes from the largest study yet on crib death.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 10:55 PM EDT2013-05-22 02:55:48 GMT
Today marks the beginning of the Roundabout Ready Campaign designed to help educate drivers on navigating through multi-lane roundabouts. Spending a few minutes waiting at the stoplight at the intersection
The Highway 22 project is a collaboration between MnDOT, Blue Earth County and the City of Mankato, which will include multilane roundabouts.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 8:58 PM EDT2013-05-22 00:58:47 GMT
Like most institutes of higher education, South Central College usually teaches students.
But it also offers community outreach learning opportunities.
Like most institutes of higher education, South Central College usually teaches students.
But it also offers community outreach learning opportunities.
MANKATO, Minn. -
The new members first business on the council... dealing with the continuing debate over civic center renovations.
The plan remains more or less intact... a $29 million renovation, half funded by sale taxes, the other half by a long sought after bonding bill.
But the time has come to make some needed improvements, namely $3 million for new ice and dasher boards.
Mankato City Manager Pat Hentges says, "If we have a catastrophic failure in the system, we'll essentially be out of ice and have to shut the system down, which becomes difficult because often scheduling."
But as to the bigger proposed renovations, which would add both athletic and academic facilities to the existing civic center, the debate about the role of the city continues.
MSU men's hockey coach Mike Hastings says, "To have an opportunity to provide for out athletes in the same footprint that we're competing against. We're just looking for an environment to house our student athletes both on and off the rink so they can have the opportunity to compete at the level that we're expected to compete against."
Councilman Chris Frederick says, "We're asking the state for resources to build, or to come up with half of re-doing this ice area. It almost sounds like it's going to be an extension of MSU's campus. Would we as a community be better off supporting MSU going for state resources, because they have leverage?"
Mankato Mayor Eric Anderson says, "Why are we being asked to help the college, without looking at it from the perspective of the college being a tenant of the existing facility?"
Richard Straka, MSU Vice President of Finance and Administration, responds, "I'll also argue that we're an economic development engine for you. We have 80,000 visitors that we bring to that convention center just for hockey games. And we can talk about the economic development that's sprouted downtown and what this downtown was before we built that civic center."
