Let’s assume, for the sake of argument or column writing, that the fundamental task of any public-school system is to maximize the number of students who graduate from high school and are ready to either enter the workforce or further their educations.
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Iowa's Tom Harkin took to the Senate floor at the close of the 111th Congress to lament a retiring colleague. "I will lose a kindred spirit and a fellow progressive populist, Byron Dorgan," Harkin intoned about the senior senator from North Dakota.
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Other states may be grappling with massive budget deficits, but North Dakota is sitting pretty, thanks to the Bakken-Three Forks shale oil deposit.
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Representative Earl Pomeroy, the nine-term North Dakota incumbent who has trailed his Republican challenger by a significant margin in each of the last five months, is one of the congressman caught up in a probe by the Office of Congressional Ethics into fundraising done around the time of a banking bill vote in the House.
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As the nation focuses on the nomination hearings for Elena Kagan, it’s worth noting that there’s another judicial nomination made by Obama that is up for consideration by the Senate that may be at least as controversial if not as high profile.
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