Proponents of the proposed paid family and medical leave time off payroll tax say low-income residents stand to gain the most from the DFL-backed legislation. Never mind that the $1…
Minnesota’s forecast budget surplus represents a historic opportunity to help put our state on the right track and make it somewhere people want to move to — not, as it…
The legislature started putting together the state budget this week, passing several omnibus bills off the Senate and House floor. So far, they are sticking to the budget targets agreed…
Digging deeper into the world of “dark money.” We’ve mentioned a couple of times the possibly non-existent Toolbox Fund, which contributed $232,000 to the Democratic party effort last year, through…
State and local taxes and spending Morrison County Record: Schultz: Let’s make Minnesota more affordable Pioneer Press: Bill would extend downtown St. Paul TIF district to 2033 to cover RiverCentre,…
During the pandemic, the federal government provided trillions of spending through numerous programs in an effort to help Americans weather the pandemic. Among the numerous programs created was a program…
Lawmakers in St. Paul are busy scheming new ways to spend the state’s $17 billion surplus and finding new ways to raise your taxes, to boot. Sadly, liberal lawmakers are…
With over 55 percent of Minnesota K-12 students not able to do math at grade level and nearly five in 10 not able to read at grade level, as measured…
A recent dust-up between the Capitol press corps and House DFL leadership exposes a much larger trend of complacency and incuriosity of the media covering the governor and legislature in…
In 1911, Booker T. Washington wrote, There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race…
The biggest urban areas are leading the way. Today, the Minnesota House of Representatives will be taking up HF3, the omnibus elections bill. The bill is a grab-bag of bad…
Sheriffs across the state have gone on the offensive over the ramifications for public safety of DFL-sponsored legislation to legalize marijuana in Minnesota. The top law enforcement officers in several…
In February, as the bill for a paid family and medical leave (PFML) scheme was sailing through committee hearings at the capitol without any estimate of what it would cost,…
The term limits ballot measure passed by nearly two-thirds of North Dakota voters last year had hardly taken effect before legislators started messing with it. The constitutional amendment limits lawmakers…
Yesterday, Americans for Tax Reform submitted official testimony to the state Senate Taxes Committee regarding SF 3157, the Omnibus Transportation appropriations bill, specifically in opposition to the proposed 75-cent delivery…
Education Minnesota — the state’s teacher union — is continuing its fight to convince legislators that important parts of the state’s much needed reformed licensing system should be repealed. Undoing…
In the intramural fight between Keith Ellison and Mary Moriarty, is “democracy” at stake? Earlier this month, state Attorney General Keith Ellison, with the approval of Governor Tim Walz, removed…
Several months ago, American Experiment highlighted the unusual case of a then-school board member who bucked his peers and urged Winona voters to reject a $94 million school referendum coming…
As a staffer for the Minnesota House Republican Caucus during the 1996 session, the first thing I did each session day was check the hand-written list of absentee members held…
Despite a historic $17.5 billion surplus, DFL legislators want to raise taxes and fees on Minnesotans. One of the ways they want to do that is by creating a fifth-tier…
The controversial Hennepin County Attorney is much in the news. Just three months into her first term as the county’s prosecutor, Moriarty has been removed from a high-profile murder case…
Back in November, Jonathan Weinhagen, president and CEO of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber, wrote an op-ed for the Star Tribune titled “Business has nothing to fear from DFL dominance.” His…
Gov. Tim Walz’s proposals to raise taxes on everyday activities such as driving a car or ordering from Amazon are wildly unpopular with Minnesotans, according to the latest Thinking Minnesota…
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) shows Mississippi beats Minnesota on post-COVID test score recovery. This adds to a trend of the Magnolia state…