The House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight committee met today at the capitol in St. Paul. The fraud examined was voter registration fraud and the state agency overseen was…
There’s a new, disturbing epidemic sweeping through Minnesota. It has shown up on the government radar, infecting state agency social benefit programs and siphoning taxpayer money by the millions: fraud.…
Eric Grumdahl, Assistant Commissioner of the state Department of Human Services (DHS) became the first bureaucrat in the seven-year tenure of Gov. Tim Walz to be held accountable for the…
Rep. Kristin Robbins, Chair of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee held, a hearing on Tuesday, July 8, to hear from the Department of Human Services…
How not to kill off a media story. The saga of former state bureaucrat, Wilson Tindi, has been extended for another week, with a fresh round of media reports. From…
With the 2025 legislative session finally in the books, we humbly offer the final Capitol Watch of the season. They didn’t finish on time, but the legislature and Gov. Tim…
In a letter sent Wednesday to the Chair of the House of Representative Fraud Prevention Committee, Ellison solves a longstanding mystery. You’ve all heard the audio recording of the infamous…
Even after his epic 2-hour appearance before the House Fraud Prevention committee on Monday morning, many important questions remain unanswered regarding the relationship between state Attorney General Keith Ellison and…
It was an unusual scene this morning at the state capitol, as the state’s two-term elected Attorney General, Keith Ellison, testified for nearly two hours regarding a 54-minute meeting he…
In this episode of the American Experiment Podcast, Grace, Kathryn, and Bill sit down for another rendition of STOP THE TAPE! — this time featuring some wild takes from the…
Do you know where your tax dollars are? It’s a sorry state of affairs when Minnesota — long the gold standard of forthright Midwest values and decency — is now…
The dust finally settled on the November 2024 election as the House DFL candidate won the special election in Roseville and Shoreview last week. That means the House is now…
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…
Last Wednesday, my colleague, Bill Glahn, wrote that KSTP had found that there are 62 fraud investigations currently underway involving federally-funded Minnesota child care centers. Two days later, he wrote:…
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.…
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…
A few minutes late, but shortly after noon on the appointed day (today), MN Secretary of State Steve Simon gaveled into session the House of Representatives of the 94th Minnesota…
As I’ve mentioned before (here and here), the incoming Republican majority of the state House of Representatives held a press conference at the capitol yesterday to present their 2025 legislative…
Hennepin County officials struck out at the legislature this year in their attempt to win approval to continue charging residents for the sales tax that’s paid for Target Field. But…
It’s taken years but school administrators finally appear to be learning the hard way that cellphones do not belong in the classroom. Good thing because Minnesota public schools now face…
No one should be surprised about the impending state budget deficit. Even though the state enjoyed a $17.6 billion surplus just months ago, Gov. Tim Walz and his allies in…
Grade retention remains a controversial policy, with the debate focusing on whether or not it is effective over time and actually results in positive achievement and adjustment outcomes. In Mississippi,…
“Go big or go home” the saying goes, but evidently Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Chancellor Devinder Malhotra believes he can do both. He’s retiring as head of Minnesota’s largest…
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