The next (and perhaps final) chapter in Minnesota’s journey to dramatically change how we teach children is about to begin. The journey began in December 2020 when the Minnesota Department…
Campaign finance reports for 2024 reveal layers upon layers of donors to the state Democratic cause. As an example, we look at the money brought in by the large Democratic-aligned…
It was a bizarre scene yesterday in the state House of Representatives’ Education Policy committee. The Commissioner of the state Dept. of Education (MDE), Willie Jett, time and again deferred…
Since Republican Rep. Lisa Demuth is Speaker of the House, she gets to control the order of bills introduced at the re-start of the 2025 session. House Republicans communicated their…
Ken Martin, chair of the state Democratic party (styled in Minnesota as Democratic-Farmer-Labor, DFL) is moving up to chair the national Democratic party. Martin had served as head of the…
HF 9 (same number even) was introduced, again, into the state House of Representatives yesterday. This is the same bill from before that would repeal the state’s ban on new…
After three and a half weeks of shutting down state government, House Democratic leaders finally buckled under the pressure and announced they would give the speaker’s gavel to Republican Lisa…
Minnesota’s only functioning legislative chamber, the state Senate, held a hearing in its Energy committee this afternoon, on a bill to provide energy cost assistance to low-income households. S.F. 486,…
Democratic politicians in Minnesota will be the last ones in the country to come to grips with the political realignment that’s occurring with President Donald Trump’s return to the White…
The tragic passing of Sen. Kari Dziedzic in December left Minnesota’s state Senate balanced at 33-33 pending a special election to fill the vacant seat. For the start of the…
The warring parties in the MN House of Representatives shutdown will be returning to the state Supreme Court next week, in an effort to break the three-week-old impasse. In this…
I’m guessing that most Minnesotans aren’t even aware that the state House of Representatives is nonfunctioning. I don’t blame them. People have to live their lives, work their jobs, get…
Part 2 of reporter Jay Kolls’ series looking into fraud in the state’s child care assistance program (CCAP) aired last night on KSTP-TV’s 10 o’clock news. Kolls interviews state Rep.…
DFL State Rep. Kristin Bahner of Maple Grove claimed in a constituent email this week that she essentially works for free at the legislature because of all the time she…
Minnesotans’ hopes that House DFLers would bank their Supreme Court win and show up to work yesterday were disappointed. All 67 Republicans were in the chamber at 3:30 p.m. when…
The shenanigans in the Minnesota House of Representatives have tended to obscure the fact that the legislature’s other house, the Senate, has been functioning smoothly. Until today. You may recall…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The MN House of Representatives met at noon today for the fifth time in their 2025 session. Again, no Democrats have bothered to attend today’s floor session. Another 183 bills…
HF 9, which would repeal the state’s ban on new nuclear power plants, advanced this afternoon out of the House of Representatives’ energy committee. In addition to legalizing new nuclear…