Examining the roots of party politics realignment In 2001, when Tim Pawlenty told the Minnesota State Republican Convention, “We are the party of Sam’s Club, not just the country club,”…
If he wins, Tim Walz will be the first Minnesota governor elected to a third four-year term.
The broad swath of issues shaping our politics — and our country. In 2018, the two Minnesota Congressional Districts with the highest median household incomes — the 2nd and 3rd…
The New York Post dispatched a reporter to spend a week in Minneapolis to see how the city’s recovered five years after the summer of George Floyd. The Post headline:…
The complicated electoral method was thoroughly rejected in November. On Nov. 5, 2024, Donald Trump won his second presidential term. But that day was important for another reason: Ranked choice…
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…
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…
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…
As Minnesota extends its nation-leading streak of voting for the Democratic presidential nominee to 52 years, political and cultural observers would be remiss to ignore a shifting undercurrent that gave…
Thinking Minnesota magazine just hit mailboxes across the state featuring our latest poll revealing the top issues that drove Minnesota voters in the November election. House Democrats should read this…
With just two weeks left to go in his presidency, President Biden today issued an offshore drilling ban in 625 million acres of Atlantic and Pacific ocean. While the Gulf…
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…
What a second Trump term could mean for the U.S. economy. In his victory speech on Nov. 6, 2024, Pres.-elect Donald Trump strongly declared, “I will not rest until we…
Economic issues are driving a new coalition of Minnesota voters. For some years, Republicans have been talking about forming a multi-ethnic working-class and middle-class coalition that would be an electoral…
Results from the Thinking Minnesota post-election poll show that having “favorite son” Tim Walz on the national Democratic ticket did not influence most Minnesota voters. Only 23 percent said having…
Some three years after the Biden administration announced the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program for rural America, not one household has been connected to high speed…
As calls to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education continue, two questions likely come to mind: Will it happen this time around (there were legislative attempts in 2017 and 2021…
Minneapolis Ward 6 council member Jamal Osman is back in the news over his links to the sprawling free-food scandal. But he isn’t answering any questions. The latest round of…
Under Gov. Tim Walz, Minnesota does not appear among the 20 state governments suing to stop the Biden administration from implementing over-the-top new staffing requirements for nursing homes that industry…
Vice Presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was on Shannon Bream’s show on Fox News on Sunday and repeatedly suggested the U.S. and Minnesota were experiencing a 50-year low…
Palo Alto’s Emerson Collective LLC appears to have done exactly that in the case of an Assistant Commissioner slot at the state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). In…
While the media focused on Pres. Joe Biden’s disastrous CNN debate performance on June 27, it ignored the administration’s glaring contradictions in its climate policy. The day after the debate,…
It’s apparently Exxon’s fault that Californians have to sort their paper, plastic and glass. California’s attorney general maintains that the company has “been deceiving the public to convince us that…
Yesterday, I wrote about a questionable “fact check” by KSTP which said that a Minnesota Congressional candidate’s claim of “20% inflation” was misleading. I noted that: Inflation is calculated as…