The Minnesota Legislature just before adjourning early this (FRIDAY) morning (3am Friday) passed a 988-million-dollar bonding bill for state public works projects — a replacement for the bill that failed one year ago. D-F-L Representative Alice Hausman from Saint Paul

Among projects in the bonding bill: 120 million dollars for the U-of-M, including 66 million for a health sciences education facility. Minnesota State colleges and universities get 92 million dollars. There’s 254 million dollars for transportation projects, including rail crossing upgrades in Moorhead and Red Wing. 70 million dollars goes for upgrades at the state Security Hospital in Saint Peter, 15 million for the Duluth steam plant, and 12 million for a miners memorial on the Iron Range. The bonding bill designates 117 million dollars for water and sewer projects around the state, including three-and-a-half million for the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System in southwest Minnesota.