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Coverage of the one-year anniversary of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse spanned the state, region and nation. Clearly, the tragedy has become far more than the incident itself. Since Aug. 1, 2007, communities have turned attention to neglected bridges. The assessment has been...

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ST. PAUL -- Democratic lawmakers want to boost state funding to public schools $1.7 billion annually, but critics call the plan an election-year ploy without a way to pay for it. The plan introduced Monday by a group of mostly Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party lawmakers bumps up state...