US Bancorp ranked very high for disclosure while 3M, which has participated in numerous state ballot measures and doesn’t disclose many political transactions, ranked near the bottom.
Walker said the national focus on his anti-union policies actually brought jobs to Wisconsin.
The Education Finance Council said the President’s plan doesn’t address the real student loan problem of “rising tuition and the lack of well-paying jobs.”
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency officials resisted a push by environmentalists that the agency comply with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency request that they upload Keetac data to a public database.
The company’s new offer makes some compromises on job protection and health care, but the union characterized the changes as “minimal.”
Corn ethanol is inefficient and contributes to food scarcity, but the American market is increasingly reliant on it.
The attempt to head off deeper cuts is drawing concern from farm bill critics, who say the process could benefit from more voices.
An Occupy Minnesota organizer said the group has been expressly non-violent since the beginning of protests almost three weeks ago.
She also said there’s a difference in the cleanliness of the two movements: “The Tea Party picks up its trash after it has a demonstration.”
Occupy Wall Street protesters closed down an intersection of downtown Minneapolis for more than an hour Thursday.
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