The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fix Our Forests Act on January 23. The bill, if passed by the Senate, would serve as a means of expediting review of…
Gov. Tim Walz’s budget proposal cuts funding intended to “promote equal educational opportunity for every student in Minnesota.” Nonpublic pupil education aid and nonpublic pupil transportation aid, established under state…
A frequent question/comment I get from readers regarding Constitutional Crisis 2025TM (now in Day 14) concerns elections for Supreme Court justices. Under the Minnesota system, justices are appointed by the…
On Friday, Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the DFL’s position that a quorum in the state House requires 68 Representatives to be present. What happens now? The House…
Minnesota House Democrats, with fresh permission from the Supreme Court, have put the state into a government shutdown. Government shutdowns usually happen at the end of session when the two…
The state Senate is now the only remaining legislative chamber. On Friday afternoon, the all-Democrat MN Supreme Court sided with the minority House Democrats to wipe out the first two…
It’s been portrayed as a narrow decision answering the question of “What is a quorum, 67 or 68?” As always in such matters, the decision was handed down on a…
State and local taxes and spending Minn Post: How Walz’s proposed ‘tax cut’ would actually raise $108 million a year to help state budget Pioneer Press: Gov. Tim Walz recommends…
Mukhtar Shariff, Defendant No. 21 in the sprawling free food scandal and just the second defendant to be sentenced in the Feeding Our Future case received a prison term of…
Today the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a quorum in the legislature “requires a majority of the total number of seats of each house. Vacancies do not reduce the number…
This afternoon, Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the DFL’s position that a quorum in the state House requires 68 Representatives to be present. So what happens now? Not…
At their last meeting, Benton County commissioners left no question about where they stand on the boycott of the 2025 legislative session by DFL members of the Minnesota House of…
Public Safety Policy Fellow David Zimmer had the opportunity to speak with Hennepin County Sheriff Witt recently. The discussion ranged from her improbable path into law enforcement to some of…
Quorum, Tabke, protesters, boycotts, power sharing — Speaker of the House Lisa Demuth covers it all on the American Experiment podcast. Grace and Kathryn talk with Speaker of the House…
Today, on the floor of the MN House of Representatives, HF 308 was introduced, which would allow for the construction of new nuclear generators in Minnesota up to a capacity…
Border Patrol agent killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland, 44, was shot and killed during a traffic stop involving a German national in Vermont on Monday. The incident marked the…
It was a big day in Minnesota’s Constitutional Crisis, with movement on all fronts. The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments today at 1 p.m. on the crucial question of…
This week I testified to the Minnesota House Public Safety Committee in support of House File 7 (HF 7). The bill is a wide-ranging effort to restore public safety to…
In December, I wrote about the formation of a “Blue Dog Coalition” in the Minnesota Senate. This is a group of eight DFL senators who, among other things, promise to…
The Robbinsdale school district will host a town hall tomorrow (Thursday, Jan. 23) from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Armstrong High School on the “state of district finances, including…
In 2018, Center of the American Experiment released a report evaluating how environmentally responsible mining would boost Minnesota’s economy. With the help of economist John Phelan and Debra Struhsacker, a…
There’s been no hysteria over mysterious drones in the North Dakota skies, unlike other parts of the country. Yet hundreds of Chinese-manufactured drones operated by North Dakota state agencies are…
Today, I testified in front of the Transportation Finance and Policy Committee on HF 5. This bill would, among other things, halt indexing on the motor fuels tax, repeal the…
Some DFL legislators will reportedly reintroduce a bill to cap childcare costs at 7 percent of household income for parents — with the Minnesota state government paying the rest — after it…