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By Staff and Wire Reports, Grand Forks Herald
WASHINGTON -- Bye bye, Cornhusker Kickback. Hello, special treatment for Tennessee and possibly North Dakota.
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By Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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Flooding might affect North Dakota Republican convention
By Ryan Johnson, The Forum (Fargo)
The North Dakota Republican Party's state convention kicks off today at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, but spring flooding could skew which delegates make it to the convention and even have an impact on who gets nominated.
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Levees ready; now we wait
By Helmut Schmidt, The Forum (Fargo)
Nearly all of Fargo's levees and dikes were in place Thursday, with just a few neighborhoods needing work to button up sandbag and clay dikes along the Red River, Rose Coulee and county drains, officials said Thursday.
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Crews armor spillway at Clausen Springs Dam
By Mike Nowatzki, The Forum (Fargo)
Crews are reinforcing an emergency spillway at Clausen Springs Dam in Barnes County, N.D., hoping to prevent the kind of severe erosion that forced residents downstream in Kathryn to flee their homes last April.
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Frost sneaks out faster than last year
By Stephen J. Lee, Grand Forks Herald
It appears, according to some observers, that the frost has come out of the ground a little faster than expected and much faster than a year ago, when rock-hard soil saturated and frozen, contributed to the flooding up and down the Red River Valley.
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An alternative to 'alternative' assets
By Gina Chon, The Wall Street Journal
Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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The empire strikes out
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
 New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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