On Wednesday, March 5, Public Safety Policy Fellow David Zimmer testified before the Minnesota House Public Safety Committee in support of House File 765. The bill, authored by Representative Walter…
I was asked to submit written comments on Senate Concurrent Resolution 2 (SCR2) to the Ohio legislature. SCR2 requires the Ohio Assembly to consider adopting legislation to invest in the…
In the November 2024 forecast, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) estimated a $5.1 billion budget deficit for the 2028-29 biennium. A newly released February 2025 budget forecast shows that the…
That’s “billion, with a “b.” Minnesota has much experience with brand-new nonprofits getting multi-million-dollar grants from the state government. The Feds have managed to go over the top in this…
The snowstorm appears to have wiped out today’s sitting of the Feeding Our Future trial against Aimee Bock and Salim Said, Defendant Nos. 1 and 3, respectively. To make up…
The Trump administration has singled out the most crucial electrification metal, copper, as a focus of its domestic minerals policy. Last week, an executive order was released “addressing the threat…
That seems to be the implication of reporting by the Minnesota Star Tribune from inside the Federal courtroom during the current free-food fraud trial. The Star Tribune‘s Jeffrey Meitrodt reports:…
Grace, Kathryn, and Jill cover all the latest in Minnesota MADNESS!! Including the House Democrat’s decision to vote against protecting women’s sports?! One Democrat Rep going as far as to…
The problem Yesterday, I testified that: In February 2023, Minnesota Management & Budget forecast a state government budget surplus of $17 billion for the 2024-2025 biennium. In that “historic” session, the DFL…
One of the most regrettable results of the COVID classroom lockdowns was a significant rise in chronic absenteeism, a.k.a. skipping school. It’s a problem nationwide that’s proven difficult to get…
Xcel Energy proposed to issue a $318 million rebate to Minnesota customers in a press release on Monday. More than half of the refund ($176 million) will come from federal…
Today I testified in the House Transportation Finance and Policy committee in support of HF 494, which: …prohibits the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and the MetropolitanCouncil from expending funds…
Minnesotans support cutting spending to deal with deficit We are about to move into a new phase of the 2025 Minnesota legislative session. Phase one was the chaos caused by…
Minnesota gets a substantial amount of funding from the federal government, particularly through the Medicaid program. Under a resolution passed by U.S. House Republicans, federal funding for Medicaid could be…
In my previous role at Alaska Policy Forum, I spoke and wrote about the costs of the Jones Act, a 1920 law that limits trade between U.S. ports to U.S.-flagged…
The ever-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV is out with a story on how Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman (Ward 6) went to bat on behalf of Feeding Our…
Another twist in an already bizarre court case. I’ll get to the rifles in a minute, but first, some background. Two co-defendants (Nos. 1 and 3) in the Feeding Our…
State and local taxes and spending Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota’s paid leave program will launch with 0.88% payroll tax, state agency says KAXE: Senate Majority Leader Murphy talks state budget, federal…
This week Minnesota House Republicans brought forward HF 435, which seeks to prevent the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) from housing biological males identifying as transgender females in the state’s…
Modern sports are not exempt from controversy — just consider the evolution of equipment and rules, race relations, and politics. But nothing has threatened the future of sports more than…
The Trump administration this week signaled that it may roll back almost 50 years of regulations that created the lengthy and litigious permitting process in the U.S. That would be welcome news…
In a late edition to the February 27 Federal court calendar, Abdikadir Mohamud, Defendant No. 9 in the case, filed Guilty Plea No. 36 in the sprawling free-food scandal. He…
It was big news at the time. Liban Osman, the brother of then-Minneapolis city council candidate Jamal Osman, posted a video to social media in the summer of 2020 that…
A recent U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) map gives Minnesota a dubious distinction: It was the state with the largest increase in gasoline taxes since July 2024. State taxes and…