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    November 16, 2017
    Mike Tusken (2013 file photo / News Tribune)
    Duluth police chief asks City Council to lessen budget cuts
    Police Chief Mike Tusken asked the Duluth City Council Thursday night to temper the proposed $325,000 budget cut his department appears poised...
    newsNovember 16, 2017 - 10:21pm
    House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) speaks during a news conference at the Capitol after the House passed a sweeping rewrite of the tax code on Nov. 16, 2017. (Al Drago/copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    The House just passed its big tax bill. Here's what is in it.
    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan, Wis., won a major victory as the House passed the tax bill Thursday, the...
    newsNovember 16, 2017 - 9:06pm
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    Bill would make online 'catfishing' iIllegal in Wisconsin
    Using social media to impersonate someone would be illegal in Wisconsin under a proposal state lawmakers took up on Thursday. Under the bill,...
    news/government-and-politicsNovember 16, 2017 - 4:44pm
    Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Oct. 18, 2017. Copyright 2017 New York Times
    Accusations of sexual misconduct throw Franken into a political minefield
    On Thursday morning, radio personality Leeann Tweeden became the latest woman to allege inappropriate sexual conduct by a powerful man, describing...
    opinion/columnsNovember 16, 2017 - 12:28pm
    November 15, 2017
    Reader's View: Trump won with action over rhetoric
    Religious communities can be broken into two groups: those who celebrate creeds and those who champion behaviors. Christians are in the first camp while Muslims are in the second. A Christian may comfortably miss church on Sunday but take a moment and recite his or her creed in between...
    opinionNovember 15, 2017 - 6:41pm
    NAFTA talks resume as US warns `short fuse' may burn down
    NAFTA talks are set to pick up Wednesday, Nov. 15, for round five where they left off a month ago: with tension and animosity in the air.
    newsNovember 15, 2017 - 10:51am
    November 14, 2017
    Lawrence Yetka is pictured cleaning out his Cloquet law office shortly before taking his seat on the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1973. Yetka, a justice for nearly two decades and a longtime force in state DFL politics, died Sunday in Cloquet. (News Tribune file photo)
    Cloquet native Yetka, force in Minnesota law and politics, dies at 93
    After a mandatory retirement law forced him from his Minnesota Supreme Court seat in 1993, Lawrence Yetka returned to his hometown of Cloquet....
    newsNovember 14, 2017 - 7:28pm
    Dr. Gavin Clarkson image via press release from U.S. Department of the Interior Indian Affairs.
    Appointee to Bureau of Indian Affairs resigns after report slams loan program he oversaw
    WASHINGTON - Gavin Clarkson, a senior Bureau of Indian Affairs official whom Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke appointed in June, quietly resigned...
    newsNovember 14, 2017 - 12:58pm
    November 13, 2017
    Donald Trump Jr. arrives on Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, April 16, 2017. (Al Drago/copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    Donald Trump Jr. communicated with WikiLeaks during 2016 campaign
    President Donald Trump's eldest son exchanged private messages with WikiLeaks during the presidential campaign at the same time the website was...
    newsNovember 13, 2017 - 7:21pm
    File photo of Sean Hannity, Fox News TV host. (Joe Buglewicz/Copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    Sean Hannity's fans call for Keurig boycott after coffeemaker company pulls ads from his show
    Four companies, including the coffeemaker company Keurig, said they will not be advertising on Sean Hannity's Fox News show following a wave...
    newsNovember 13, 2017 - 12:37pm
    November 11, 2017
    Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers hold a news conference Tuesday on the House tax plan. Washington Post photo by Melina Mara
    Federal tax plan needs help to better benefit Northland
    Minnesota's Legislature may have to respond to prevent middle-class tax hike.
    businessNovember 11, 2017 - 9:00pm
    November 10, 2017
    Rep. Kerry Gauthier of Duluth tells a 2011 House committee that he supports longer sentences for sex offenders. On Thursday, police released a report indicating he had been investigated on an allegation he had oral sex at a rest area with a minor.
    Minn. Capitol Chatter: 2012 sex scandal came at a different time than 2017 allegations
    MINNEAPOLIS—The Minnesota Legislature has been relatively free of sex-related scandals, which is one reason why recent harassment allegations...
    newsNovember 10, 2017 - 10:50pm
    Rep. Kerry Gauthier of Duluth tells a 2011 House committee that he supports longer sentences for sex offenders. In 2012, he was caught having oral sex with a 17-year-old boy at a rest area near Duluth.
    Capitol Chatter: Today's sex scandals take different tone than 2012 event
    MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Legislature has been relatively free of sex-related scandals, which is one reason why recent harassment allegations...
    newsNovember 10, 2017 - 7:36pm
    November 9, 2017
    Sen. Dan Schoen, D-Cottage Grove. Courtesy photo / Dan Schoen
    Sexual harassment allegations erupt at Minnesota Capitol
    ST. PAUL—The national phenomenon of women alleging sexual harassment by men in power erupted in the Minnesota Capitol Thursday, following...
    newsNovember 9, 2017 - 10:15pm
    Kurt Zellers, right, tells three Minnesota Republican governor candidates the rules for a Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, forum during the AgriGrowth annual meeting in Minneapolis. Candidates from left are state Sen. David Osmek, state Rep. Matt Dean and former state Rep. Keith Downey. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    Minnesota governor candidates differ on ag approaches
    MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota's 2018 governor candidates offer a variety of solutions to rural problems. In the largest governor candidate forum...
    news/government-and-politicsNovember 9, 2017 - 7:08pm
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