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Duluth, MN, is thinking about providing city workers who have lost there licenses due to drunk driving with alternative job positions so they may remain on the city payroll. As of today six city workers with heavy maintenace positions are out of work because they can’t drive, but none of them were pulled over while on the job. With a few city councel members asking why they should create new job positions for these six DWI offenders. One member of the council Mr. Stauber stated that if a person job involves driving and they cant perform that job then they should be removed from that position. He also said that we pay these people to drive and not to get DWI’s, so they should lose there job but not permananlty because once they get there license back then they may be able to return to work. If they were granted new jobs they would only be temporary and with a lower pay.

Minnesota lawmakers are trying to pass an agreement with Wisconson lawmakers over the topic that Wisconsin college students are paying less then Minnesota in-state students to attend Minnesota Universities. It has been proposed to take effect by the year 2006 that all students will pay equal tuition. As of today Wisconsin students pay about 2,000 less a year to attend Minnesota Universities then in-state students. A university of Minnesota official said about the lower rates for wisconsin studets as being “ridiculous”. Peter Zetterberg a analyst in the provosts office added that “we dont want wisconsin students to pay more but the same price as everyone else”.