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Crookston Times: Continued wet cycle in valley is cause for concern

Crookston — Attend a meeting on the scale of Friday's Red River Valley spring flood preparation gathering hosted by U.S. Sen. Al Franken at the University of Minnesota, Crookston, and it's impossible not to pick up on the theme in cities up and down and across the Red River Basin over the past several years: Everyone is sick of fighting back high water every year, with mixed success. Everyone is "tired," they're "weary" and, most notably, they're especially nervous about a 2011 spring flood fight that could be one of the most stressful of all.

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Los Angeles Times: Clorox comes clean: Company discloses all ingredients in all products

The maker of bleach, Pine-Sol and other popular cleaning products announced Tuesday that it will disclose the specific preservatives, dyes and fragrances it uses in its cleaning, disinfecting and laundry products sold in the U.S. and Canada.

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Crookston Daily Times: Reader-submitted how-we-met stories: Al asked Franni to dance, bought her a drink, and took her home

Note from the editor: For the past couple weeks, in conjunction with Valentine's Day nearing on the calendar, the Times has been asking readers to write and send in their how we met/love stories for publication in print and online. Sen. Al Franken saw the invitation at crookstontimes.com and submitted the story below.

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MinnPost: Klobuchar offers resolution honoring Super Bowl champs Green Bay

WASHINGTON — Sen. Amy Klobuchar had mop-up duty today, wrapping up the Senate's outstanding business before the upper house adjourned for the weekend. Unfortunately for her, the item on the agenda was a resolution honoring the Green Bay Packers on their recent Super Bowl win.

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Examiner: Abortion: Senate Dems respond to GOP attack on women's rights

Democrats are responding to the GOP attack on women's rights. Tuesday Senate Dems announced they would continue to support abortion rights despite the fact that House Republicans are working overtime trying to restrict if not eliminate access to safe and legal abortions.

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Ms. Magazine: Democratic Senators Decry Anti-Abortion Bills

US Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), Al Franken (D-MN), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) held a press conference yesterday to speak out against two extreme anti-women's rights measures introduced by House Republicans to restrict women's access to health care and reproductive health services.

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Star Tribune: UM-Morris: Green goal, then reality

MORRIS, MINN. – It was a gutsy goal.

By the end of 2010, the University of Minnesota, Morris, campus would be carbon-neutral. Maybe even "carbon-negative."

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Duluth News-Tribune: OpEd from President of MN Citizens Federation NE Reader's view: Citizens Federation works to improve senior health care

The Citizens Federation NE continues to keep the Northland engaged in the discussion of providing affordable health care for all. At our recent news conference in Duluth, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., showed strong support for the work of the Citizens Federation at several levels. Our participation in the Greater Minnesota Health Care Coalition, representing St. Louis County and several other counties north of the Twin Cities, involves an ongoing review of state legislation as well as providing group informational presentations in the region to make sure Minnesotans are getting the care they deserve.

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Rochester Post-Bulletin: State's biobusiness sector sees healthy growth

A life sciences industry group is calling for Minnesota to build on its success in medical devices to become a leader in areas such as pharmaceuticals and agricultural biotechnology.

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Minnpost.com: Bio-business a growing factor in state's employment and economy, study finds

Bio-business is big business — and becoming more important — in the state's economy, according to a new study (PDF) released by the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, a nonprofit advocacy group for the sector.

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