Voters in the Anoka Hennepin School Board election need to make sure they approach the correct table at the Mision Christiana Bethel polling place (ISD 11 SB6 P2). That’s because…
Shortly before Election Day last November, Gallup reported that “The economy ranks as the most important of 22 issues that U.S. registered voters say will influence their choice for president.” Crucially, given…
Minnesotans deserve better than what they have offered. Trust, accountability, and common sense are three foundational characteristics of a society that are also good measures of that society’s health and…
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) may rule on a 28-mile Minnesota segment of the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline at its Dec. 12 meeting, according to the North Dakota Monitor.…
State and local taxes and spending KIMT 3: Amid several operating tax levies, one SE Minnesota school district looks to lower taxes WJON: Stearns County Makes Final Push on Justice…
Election Day was Tuesday, November 5, 2024. At least that’s what we used to call it. Now it’s just a day where Minnesota begins the process of collecting and counting…
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon has a problem. Too many Minnesotans don’t trust the election system he manages. According to the latest Thinking Minnesota Poll, nearly one in four…
Minnesota teachers’ unions have a long tradition of being involved in school board races, from campaign planning and marketing to candidate endorsements. Their influence on these elections has largely gone…
State and local taxes and spending WCCO: St. Paul voters to weigh in on sales tax increase to fix roads Kare 11: St. Paul voters weigh sales tax for roads,…
Just two years after Minnetonka voters approved ranked choice voting, the controversial alternative election process will be on the ballot again November 7. Ironically, a simple majority vote, yes or…
A sweeping new ballot petition filed with North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe aims to significantly revamp the system for voting in North Dakota elections. The “Election Integrity Act…
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia allow absentee ballots received after Election Day to be counted for days afterward, as long as the envelope bears a pre-Election Day postmark.…
What Minnesotans can expect from Democrat-led environmental policies.
Edina Public Schools appears set on shelling out around $150,000 to keep district elections during “off-cycle” (odd-numbered) years. The City of Edina offered to continue administrating elections for the district…
It doesn’t go far enough to satisfy the most ardent skeptics of the election process. But after months of hearing them out, Crow Wing County commissioners have agreed to increase…
The United States is currently experiencing its fastest rate of inflation, year over year, since mid-1982. Those of you who are old enough to remember that might also remember the…
Minnesota’s Walter Mondale famously failed to resurrect Hubert Humphrey’s liberal coalition, but also took the first, faltering steps toward a new progressive politics that appealed to younger, educated, middle-class voters.
American Experiment Releases Voter Integrity Report, Urges Secretary of State Simon to Release Data Post card experiment reveals weakness in Minnesota voting system (Golden Valley, MN) Center of the American…
Why the 'Happy Warrior' would find no perch among today's progressives.
For Theodore H. White, the process of a presidential election was a solemn wonder. That ordinary human beings, who for most of their history had had their rulers - emperors…
Politicians say we’re in a “new normal” with the continuing restrictions set in place by Gov. Tim Walz due to the pandemic. But there’s an even more concerning new normal…
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2020 Issue of Thinking Minnesota, now the second largest magazine in Minnesota. To receive a free trial issue send your name and address to [email protected]. Hubert…
Columnist George Will, at the Minnesota Business Partnership’s Annual Dinner last Thursday (September 19), guaranteed that no presidential candidate between now and Election Day next year would say anything whatsoever…
DFL State Senators have introduced legislation that would make voter registration automatic, and on Tuesday, newly-elected Congressman Dean Phillips (DFL) from Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional district introduced legislation that would make voting…