Lawmakers Pass Bill To Keep UND's "Fighting Sioux" Name
The North Dakota House has approved a bill that would force the University of North Dakota to keep the "Fighting Sioux" nickname.
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The North Dakota House has approved a bill that would force the University of North Dakota to keep the "Fighting Sioux" nickname.
No resolution appeared imminent Monday to the stalemate over union rights in Wisconsin, leaving Senate Republicans resigned to forge ahead with less-controversial business such as tax breaks for dairy farmers and commending the Green Bay Packers on winning the Super Bowl.
A Minnesota House panel has approved legislation that would block consumers from suing fast-food chains and other food companies for weight problems.
Gov. Mark Dayton and Majority House leader Matt Dean came to the WCCO Sunday Morning Show, just before the storm hit the Twin Cities.
A state Capitol thrown into political chaos swelled for a fifth day with nearly 70,000 protesters, as supporters of Republican efforts to scrap the union rights of state workers challenged pro-labor protesters face-to-face for the first time and GOP leaders insisted again Saturday there was no room for compromise.
Sometimes they cursed each other, sometimes they shook hands, sometimes they walked away from each other in disgust.
It's more than four hours away from Madison, but on the streets of Hudson, Wis., crowds gathered making it look very similar to the capital.
Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann says it's great to be in a "GOP paradise" like conservative South Carolina, a key state in the presidential primaries.
Organized labor is trying to re-energize and take advantage of the growing backlash from the wave of anti-union sentiment in Wisconsin and more than a dozen other states.
Republican leaders in Minnesota say they're not focused on legislation to remove collective bargaining rights.
AFL-CIO leaders say union members in Wisconsin will keep fighting against proposed anti-union legislation, even if it passes.
Religious leaders in Illinois and Wisconsin are offering sanctuary to Wisconsin Democrats as they boycott a vote on a Republican bill that would strip public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights.
The Wisconsin State Patrol was dispatched Friday to find a Democratic state senator who fled the Capitol to delay the near-certain passage of a bill to end a half-century of collective bargaining rights for public workers, a measure that's attracted thousands of protesters for four days.
Congresswoman Betty McCollum received a threatening fax after proposing to cut advertising between the military and NASCAR.
Top legislative Republicans say Minnesota can't solve a $6.2 billion budget shortfall without involving public employees.
