Feature: SaveWCAL to file Petition for Review with Minnesota Supreme Court

This past weekend, the board of SaveWCAL met to review and discuss the recent decision by the Minnesota Court of Appeals regarding SaveWCAL's Petition To Redress Breach Of Trust.
The board has decided to file a Petition to Review with the Minnesota Supreme Court.Related Posts:Minnesota Court of Appeals issues WCAL decisionMN Court of Appeals changes venue [...]

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Minnesota Court of Appeals issues WCAL decision

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This morning at 10:00 a.m. the Minnesota Court of Appeals filed its decision in the WCAL case. Related Posts:SaveWCAL files Appeal Reply BriefApril 20, 2009: SaveWCAL files Notice with Minnesota Court of AppealsWhy SaveWCAL has an excellent case for appealJune 20, 2008: SaveWCAL to AG: WCAL sale must be voided / MPR was co-conspiratorArticle in [...]

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TRIPLE your donation today!

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Today is GiveMN — a day when individuals are being encouraged to give to their favorite nonprofit organizations and contributions will be matched out out of a pool of funds available until 8 a.m. on Wednesday, November 18.
SaveWCAL is included in the list. To donate and automatically double your gift, go to http://givemn.razoo.com/story/Savewcal
But we have [...]

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Article in MinnPost: MPR executive pay: Kling tops $600,000

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David Brauer, local media reporter for the MinnPost, has published an articled titled "MPR executive pay: Kling tops $600,000" in which he reports on the executive pay at Minnesota Public Radio (MPR).
Topping the list, of course, is Bill Kling, the president and CEO of the entity officially known as Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media. He [...]

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St. Olaf names two new "WCAL" Distinguished Professors

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St. Olaf College has announced two appointees to the Distinguished Professorships created with the "repurposing" of the funds they obtained through the sale of WCAL charitable trust assets.
Wendell Arneson of the Art and Art History department has been named Oscar and Gertrude Boe Overby Distinguished Professor and Gary Stansell of the Religion Department has been [...]

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Future of Newcomb College group to appeal

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TFoNC (The Future of Newcomb College) has just announced its decision to appeal a Louisiana court's ruling regarding the fate of Newcomb College. TFoNC is the group of alumnae and others supporting legal efforts to force Tulane University to re-open Newcomb College. The appeal was announced in the press and in "The DaisyChain", the [...]

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Donor intent is going to the dogs…

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In article from PRWire that appeared on Earthtimes.org titled "Landmark Helmsley Legal Trust Challenge by America's Three Pre-Eminent Animal Welfare Organizations", three of the country's most prominent animal welfare organizations — in what they are terming the most significant financial litigation in animal welfare history — have filed suit in New York's Surrogate Court to [...]

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Summary Judgment Motion Filed in Newcomb College Case

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We received the following from the Save Newcomb College folks today:

Motion Declares that University Must “Acknowledge, Honor and Implement Mrs. Newcomb’s Donor Intent”
NEW ORLEANS, May 27 – Susan Henderson Montgomery, a successor of Josephine Louise Newcomb, who endowed Tulane University’s H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College through a bequest and earlier series of gifts, petitioned the [...]

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Waldorf College to be sold to for-profit institution

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On April 24, 2009 the Des Moines Register published an article titled "Waldorf College sale takes a step forward".
The article reports that historically Lutheran Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa, is moving closer to selling its assets to an online-only, for-profit university in Alabama — Columbia Southern University.
Waldorf's longtime governing body, an association of 190 [...]

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Creative fundraising

We continue to be grateful for the donations that SaveWCAL supporters have been sending in via our Facebook Causes page, by Paypal and by regular mail. Our board will receive an update from our CPA/Treasurer after he recovers from — or at least gets through — the current tax season.
We have also received some pledges [...]

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Fundraising update

SaveWCAL's fundraising campaign for our next step to the Minnesota Court of Appeals is well underway. We are grateful for all of the gifts we have received and for your unwavering support to see justice done.
To support our efforts and speed us on our way, an anonymous SaveWCAL supporter has pledged a generous matching gift [...]

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SaveWCAL to appeal

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The SaveWCAL board has announced its unanimous decision to proceed with an appeal of the SaveWCAL Petition To Redress Breach Of Trust and will take the case to the Minnesota State Court of Appeals.
WCAL was the first  listener-supported radio station in the United States and had served the community for more than 80 years when [...]

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