Starting at 9:00 p.m. Saturday, Minneapolis residents should begin moving their cars as the City of Minneapolis declared its third snow emergency in three weeks today. Though the MCTC campus is closed, local residents may be affected as most downtown streets — including all streets adjacent to campus — are snow emergency routes. With reports [...]
Based on predictions of severe weather, MCTC will be closed on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. All classes and other activities are canceled. The National Weather Service predicts snow starting after 9 p.m. Friday.
Drivers now have a new payment option when parking on Minneapolis streets: debit and credit cards. During the week of Nov. 9, crews began installing multi-space smart parking meters in the Warehouse District. 46 new meters are being installed, which will service 450 parking spots in the Warehouse District. The old meters are being removed, [...]
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Delano) will concede the Minnesota gubernatorial race to DFL candidate Mark Dayton Wednesday morning, KSTP-TV’s chief political reporter Tom Hauser announced on Twitter at 9:54 p.m. Tuesday night. The state Supreme Court’s 18-page ruling on Emmer’s argument that Minnesota counties did not all correctly follow reconciliation procedures from earlier Tuesday dismantled the [...]
Anticipating budget cuts for the fiscal year 2012, the Office of the Chancellor for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is already taking cautionary steps. By July 1, 2011, $4.2 million will be shaved from the budget, and 41 positions eliminated through resignations, retirements, and layoffs. The office is funded entirely by Minnesota Legislature, federal [...]
PRIDE, the student organization for the LGBT community, held its first event, “Erasing Hate” last month. The event, organized by Dean Cheryl Saunders and sponsored by the Matthew Shepard Foundation, was coordinated to both introduce the newly-formed club to campus and to observe National Coming Out Day, which was October 11. Thomas Howard Jr., Programs [...]
Two familiar faces and an a new one will represent the area around MCTC in the upcoming legislative sessions. Democrats U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison and state Sen. Scott Dibble handily won reelection to Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District and the state senate District 60. Marion Greene won election to represent District 60A in the Minnesota House [...]
In a grimly familiar scene for Minnesota politics, the governor’s race between apparent winner Mark Dayton and Republican challenger Tom Emmer is headed to a recount amid a wave of Republican takeovers nationally. “I don’t think the people of Minnesota will stand for it, and they shouldn’t,” Dayton said, according to the Star Tribune. With [...]
The Fourth Annual Minneapolis Bike Tour took place on September 19, 2010 which started and finished at Parade Field on Kenwood Parkway in Minneapolis. The tour drew in 3,300 people of all ages that chose to ride either the 14 or 36 mile route which toured many parkways, lakes, and byways that the Minneapolis area [...]
A photograph taken by Marilyn Indahl, a Photography and Digital Imaging staff member, and Tom Dahlin, a member of the PHDI advisory was featured as cover photograph of Sports Illustrated magazine. The photo, featured in the Sept. 27, 2010, edition of the magazine, shows Minnesota Twins designated hitter Jim Thome hitting a home run at [...]
