For more than a decade, members of Congress were banned from slipping spending requests for pet projects in their districts, known as earmarks, into spending bills. But as MinnPost points…
One of the new things in journalism is running ‘fact checks’ of candidate’s claims. An example comes from KSTP’s recent fact check of an ad by Congressional Candidate Joe Teirab…
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…
Last week Governor Walz finally found a tax he didn’t like when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the “Walz checks” received by more than 2 million Minnesotans this…
Nishad Singh, Director Engineering for failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, pled guilty in New York today to criminal charges arising out of the firm’s collapse late last year. The counts included…
On Thursday morning, February 9, Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District Representative Angie Craig was physically assaulted by a homeless man named Kendrid Hamlin in the elevator of the apartment complex she…
Lawyers for the failed Bahamian cryptocurrency exchange FTX are attempting to recover political contributions made to American politicians. Indicted CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was the 2nd largest donor to Democratic candidates…
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, donated to both Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig and Sen. Tina Smith this election cycle. According to records at the Federal Election Commission…
New law will raise health care costs on some, result in fewer new life-saving cures and more lives lost for others Rep. Angie Craig recently led off a commentary in…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Democratic candidates are “calibrating” their crime message during this election season. The headline reads, Minnesota Democrats embrace police-friendly message amid crime concerns The article…
Liberal Democrats in Washington, D.C. are seeking to shoehorn the Green New Deal into their massive, $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill because this policy would never pass on its own merits.…
We must judge public policies by their effects, not their intentions.