The 85-foot statue, depicting an ordinary miner standing atop steel girders, is an Iron Range landmark and a tribute to the tenaciousness of the late Veda Ponikvar.
NMDC is "on track" to secure a lease for the Chigargunta-Bisanatham gold block soon, having signed a letter of intent over the project with the state government late last year, the source said.
be stronger. when the unions were strong, the middle class was strong what goes through your mind? that they re right, that they get it reporter: we talked with senator amy klobuchar at home. to her, unions are a family matter. i literally am here as the granddaughter of a union member, an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher, a union member the daughter of newspaper man and a union member reporter: how americans view unions has changed dramatically in the last ten years nearly two-thirds of view unions favorably. we have things that have gone awry it is no surprise at all that you re going to see an increase in union organizing and an increase in interest in popularity of unions. reporter: but union membership is at a decades low, 10% of the u.s. workforce to effect change, the senator wants to reverse trump administration rulespay, and appoint more labor friendly judges. when there were changes in our country like during the gilded
and i think this is the time where you ll be able to see. it s a bit of an endurance contest and you see how people fare over time. that s their decision to make. we talk about lanes or some people talk about lanes in this race. people look at you and say you yourself talk about i m the one from the middle of the country which is an awfully big lane. everything between california and new york. pretty big. do you think there s enough space in that lane for the former vice president and you? i do or i wouldn t be running for this. i think i have strength that i bring to this that no one else does. yes, being from the middle of the country, but also i m only one of three women that were up on that stage. and then finally, as i said, i m someone that gets things done and really comes at this with a different background as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a union teacher and newspaper man. first woman elected to the u.s. senate from the state of minnesota and
were their attributes and they came back? northern minnesota, iron ore mines and for come of the car batteries we need the iron ore and steel to build the grid. they came back as well when we went after steel dumping. i have seen the changes. but when we do draining it s not just kids that we re ready to train adults as well. and that we re ready to make sure we find jobs that are suiting the skills that they ve had that they have built over the years. all right. we are going to take a brief break, senator and we ll be back on the other side with much more from senator amy klobuchar and of course next up joe biden and bernie sanders. all right. thank you. [ applause ] this is the nimble chevy trax.