County caught illegally staffing ballot boards. The headline from KSTP-TV: Supreme Court rules Hennepin County Absentee Ballot Board must comply with state law in choosing election judges by Nov. 1…
The use of the word “latest” in this Minnesota Star Tribune headline gives the game away: Mayor Frey’s latest plan has ‘action steps’ to revitalize downtown Minneapolis “action steps” The…
We wrote last week about Hennepin County ignoring the list of election judges submitted by the political parties in the creation of their ballot board. Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court…
In a recent community survey, 60 percent of participating Oronoco residents responded negatively to the question of whether the city government is trustworthy and transparent. Hardly a resounding vote of…
In an ongoing dispute over the composition of ballot boards, Hennepin County claimed they “exhausted” the list of election judges put forward by the Republican Party because they forwarded the…
That’s not likely to happen; the real problem with the trans refuge law centers on how it assists and encourages interstate parental kidnapping, which will exact enormous harm on the…
[Updated: driver fired.] The parking lot was, in fact, a handicapped parking space in front of City Hall. The “courier” was stopping by to pick up more absentee ballots en…
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon has a problem. Too many Minnesotans don’t trust the election system he manages. According to the latest Thinking Minnesota Poll, nearly one in four…
Palo Alto’s Emerson Collective LLC appears to have done exactly that in the case of an Assistant Commissioner slot at the state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). In…
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz took time out from his busy schedule to visit the Manhattan, New York, home of the philanthropist Alex Soros. The event is commemorated on Soros’ Twitter…
Drilling down into local politics, we find an interesting story in the south Metro, illustrating a number of trends in state politics. The seven members of the Dakota County Board…
Last year’s legislative session in Minnesota, which concluded in May 2023, has been described as “historic.” And it was. For the first time in eight years, the state’s Democratic party…
This morning, I was back at Ft. Snelling, observing the workings of the local Federal Immigration Court. Charles Dickens famously wrote in his 1853 novel Bleak House about the fictional…
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison took time out from his busy Labor Day schedule to post the following on Twitter (X): In the 22 hours since, the post has been…
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Breitbart reported on a disturbing event that occurred in Minnesota recently. The Republican National Committee (RNC) sent a letter Monday to Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon. The letter can…
Yesterday, the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners (supervisors) shelved their proposal for a massive pay raise for board members, the county sheriff, and county attorney. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:…
Here at the Center, we’ve been tracking the Tim Walz record on public policy since he first took office as governor of Minnesota in January 2019. To me, the most…
The city of St. Paul just got smacked down by a Ramsey County court in what’s being hailed a groundbreaking case for transparency in Minnesota government. Ramsey County District Judge…
As Democrats scramble to assemble a ticket following Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is putting himself out there as potential vice-presidential pick. He is…
Digging into the most recent batch of campaign finance reports, I came across this gem: on the last day of the latest reporting period (May 31), a man named Barry…
Center of the American Experiment announced a summer tour of events based on exclusive polling showing young people in Minnesota dissatisfied with the direction of the state and pessimistic about…