Times like these demonstrate the tremendous value of postsecondary education. A recent Gazette report by Linda Halstead-Acharya provided dramatic examples of how education helped laid-off Stillwater miners get back to work:
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Thursday was the last day to file for Billings or Laurel city council seats. We've urged citizens to get involved in running for these offices or in supporting other good candidates. A flurry of filing activity yielded several new candidates who waited until the last day to put their name…
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Billings Public Schools have a mountain of deferred maintenance - $120 million. It accumulated over years of tight budgets in which trustees funded staff and operations while postponing repair and renovation. It will be a huge challenge for our schools to ever catch up.
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County residents who appreciated the strong leadership, commitment to community safety and unwavering friendship of Sheriff Chuck Maxwell will pause today to pay respects to the longtime public servant who passed away Friday at his home of cancer.
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A consultant hired by the city of Billings is finalizing a study that confirms what many downtowners already knew: There's a shortage of parking in the central business district.
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WASHINGTON - Now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ended the long count on the 2008 Senate race by awarding the seat to Al Franken, Democrats - at least on paper - have the power to pass whatever bills they want, without a single Republican vote.
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WASHINGTON - Hours before the House passed its cap-and-trade bill last week, freshman Democrats Tom Perriello and Frank Kratovil were pondering the political fallout of the votes they were about to cast in favor of a plan Republicans were denouncing as "cap-and-tax."
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Shaunti Feldhahn:
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WASHINGTON - Although New Haven's firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly - 5-4. The egregious behavior by that city's government, in a context of racial rabble-rousing, did not seem legally suspect to even one of the court's four l…
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