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Goose antibodies that can save puppies

Goose antibodies that can save puppies

A Grand Forks company that uses goose antibodies to prevent and treat disease is close to marketing its first product, a treatment for parvovirus in dogs. I reported  in 2012 on the work Avianax is doing to develop a treatment for West Nile and other diseases. Because animal treatments require much less stringent testing than human testing, that’s Read more →
by Dan Gunderson

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Mpls. and St. Paul public schools closed Thurs.

Temperatures will struggle to reach zero across the state tomorrow — and a number of schools will be closed due to the frigid weather. The list of districts that will be closed tomorrow includes: Anoka-Hennepin Bloomington Eastern Carver County Eden Prairie Edina Hudson, Wis. Minneapolis Minnetonka Orono Prior Lake-Savage Richfield St. Louis Park St. Paul Read more →
by Molly Bloom

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Smaller crowd of mostly PolyMet supporters at hearing in Aurora

Smaller crowd of mostly PolyMet supporters at hearing in Aurora

About 650 people gathered in Aurora tonight for the second of three public meetings on the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine. Although the crowd was about half the size of last week’s meeting in Duluth, about the same number of people — 170 — had signed up to speak in the three hours designated for public Read more →
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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How to avoid a national water crisis?

How to avoid a national water crisis?

Most Americans are spoiled when it comes to water, according to Robert Glennon. We open the tap and get as much water as we want and it costs us less per month than a cellphone. • Beneath the Surface: Minnesota’s Pending Groundwater Challenge Glennon, a professor of law and public policy at Arizona State University Read more →
by Dan Gunderson

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Minneapolis wants groundwater to back up river

The big idea hovering over Twin Cities water use these days is a plan that could encourage some suburbs to draw water from the Mississippi River (via St. Paul or Minneapolis systems) instead of their own well-based water systems. So some suburban officials are wondering why Minneapolis hopes to drill new wells to tap the same groundwater aquifer they do.
by Dave Peters

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DNR kicks off new approach to groundwater

The Minnesota DNR is launching its new approach to groundwater this month, getting into the field to explain how it hopes to deal with conflicting demands on water in three specific places in the state.
by Dave Peters

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