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With time short, Minn. lawmakers meet over weekend
Minnesota's House and Senate convened Saturday for votes on major pieces of the state budget, including a likely House vote on a nearly $16 billion school funding bill that's been one of the chief priorities for Democrats running things at the Capitol. Lawmakers were back early after a late night ...
Mo. infrastructure proposals fail at state Capitol
Numerous Missouri lawmakers wanted to seek voter approval to boost funding for Missouri's transportation system and pay for improvements at colleges and state facilities. Neither measure made it that far. State lawmakers wrapped up their annual session Friday without passing a proposed 1-cent sales tax for transportation or a state ...
Education provision muddies Kan. budget talks
Kansas education advocates say they were surprised by a provision added to the 2014 state budget banning the spending of any money to implement the national Common Core standards for math and reading. The provision, introduced Thursday by Senate Ways and Means Chairman Ty Masterson, says no money could be ...
Parking fees at California state beaches heat up
Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic. That sandy line that long defined the state's ...
Neb. lawmakers to review school breakfast programs
Lawmakers are planning to review why few Nebraska students who receive free and reduced-price lunches also participate in the government-backed breakfast program. The requirements are the same for both programs, which are federally funded but administered by the state. Yet of students who take part in the lunch program, the ...
Michigan lawmaker backs anti-cyber-bullying bill
A Democratic Michigan lawmaker is backing an effort aimed at preventing cyber-bullying in schools. A bill recently introduced by Democratic Rep. Theresa Abed of Grand Ledge would require schools to expand their policies prohibiting bullying to also include cyber-bullying. It would also mandate that schools report cyber-bullying incidents to the ...
Minnesota House defeats construction projects bill
A state Capitol facelift, college campus building projects and regional civic center upgrades got thrown in limbo Friday when the Minnesota House failed to muster enough votes for an $800 million construction bill. The bill fell five votes short of an 81-vote supermajority needed for passage, a rare area where ...
Texas budget deal struck, but will Perry approve?
A deal on a Texas budget is finally done. Now the Legislature must withstand one final and furious week without sinking a compromise that restores nearly $4 billion to public schools and puts more water in the pipeline amid a historic drought. Gov. Rick Perry must also like this bargain, ...
Minnesota news in brief at 7:58 p.m. CDT
Minnesota House passes lawmaker pay hike panel ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota House voted Friday to take the politically charged decisions about their salaries out of their own hands, approving a constitutional amendment that would ask voters if there should be an independent state council to set legislative ...
Highlights from around the Capitol
A deal on a Texas budget is finally done. Now the Legislature must withstand one final and furious week without sinking a compromise that restores nearly $4 billion to public schools and puts more water in the pipeline amid a historic drought. Gov. Rick Perry must also like this bargain, ...
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