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The planned Becker gas plant is on the negotiating table for Minnesota lawmakers along with myriad policy and funding provisions as the DFL-led House and the GOP-led Senate seek middle ground for the next two-year budget.
Education funding is up for debate. Police reforms are in the mix. And there s been a big divide on whether to create a fifth tier income tax rate and raise taxes on the state s top earners.
DFL leaders said Wednesday that tax increases are now unlikely.
The regular Legislative session must end by Monday, but state leaders have not yet agreed on overall budget numbers. Conference committees organized by topic have been meeting to reconcile Senate and House budget proposals.
Runner explores Iowa, one county at a time
MELANIE MERGEN, Globe Gazette
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MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) He says it started in Mason City.
Tyler Sullivan, of North Liberty, has been running across Iowa towns for the last six years. He’s run around and through towns in 84 of Iowa’s 99 counties.
Back in 2015, Sullivan said his then-girlfriend lived in Mason City, where he traveled about every other week from the Iowa City area to visit her.
“I was seeing counties I’d never heard of before,” Sullivan told the Globe Gazette. “So one day, I was just like, ‘Hey . maybe we could visit these counties and find something special.’ So every time I came up north, I picked a county, and every time she came down, she picked a county.”
Searching for a consensus on San Francisco-style pizza
There can only be one - or maybe two.
Brian VanHooker
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What, exactly, is a San Francisco pizza? It s complicated.Shutter2U / Getty Images
Back in 1985, if you wanted a fresh, piping-hot slice of San Francisco-style pizza, there was only one place you could get it: Clear Lake, Iowa. A small city of about 7,500 people both now, and back in the 80s Clear Lake is a popular stop along Interstate 35 and its biggest claim to fame is that it was the last place Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper played before their tragic plane crash on February 3, 1959 (better known as “The Day the Music Died”).
CLEAR LAKE â The Clear Lake Township Land Conservancy is one of 18 organizations that received a $4,000 NIPSCO Environmental Action Grant on Wednesday.
Each organization receiving a grant applied earlier in the year. To date, the program has awarded $370,000 to help 92 projects become reality across the northern portion of Indiana.
This yearâs projects include multiple wetland restoration projects, including the project at Clear Lake that will help restore the hydrology of a wetland on the west end of the preserve.
Clear Lake Township Land Conservancy Executive Director Bridget Harrison said over the last seven years, work has been ongoing to restore the preserve at Clear Lake to create opportunities for public access.
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