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Citizens are organizing to try to block a proposed quarry on the western edge of Minnesota, fearing it will spoil a scenic landscape of rock outcroppings and prairie.
The annual survey helps the towing industry decide whether towboats will have a hard time breaking through ice on the Upper Mississippi River and when to start navigation to St. Paul.
Since the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development touts our state as "the perfect environment for bioscience," should we have more scientists and engineers in public office?