Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s ability to turn out the vote has been remarkable over her brief career in politics. It will be tested again next month. Early voting is already underway…
Back in February, I wrote that the DFL’s gas tax holiday is a bad idea. Even as gas prices continue to rise and it becomes more popular, it remains a…
If you put Governor Walz’s tax proposals on an X/Y axis, you would see an inverse relationship between how generous the tax proposal is, to how little chance it has…
Last week I wrote about a DFL proposal to fight the shortage of baby formula in Minnesota with a law banning ‘price gouging’. This proposal stems from the idea that…
Did you know that the Democratic state senators in Minnesota who are often the loudest in declaring that climate change is an existential threat are also the ones who refuse…
Freshman state Senator Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) has been generating more than his share of headlines lately. Tracking his various scandals requires a scorecard, if not an entire program. The latest…
It’s alive and well with controversial state Representative John Thompson. Alpha News reported last week that Thompson and his company, Fight For Justice Enterprises LLC, combined received more than $43,000…
State and local taxes and spending The Center Square: Minnesota lawmakers set to haggle over tax cuts Duluth News Tribune: Minnesota House passes property tax cuts, family tax rebates West…
Less than a year ago, Minnesota legislative leaders and Gov. Tim Walz approved a $1.1 billion increase in school funding and gave the K-12 funding formula its biggest increase in…
The recent tax bill by the Minnesota Senate would, among other things, cut our state’s bottom rate of state income tax from 5.35 percent to 2.80 percent. Refreshingly in these…
The Met Council would be required to pay potentially millions of dollars to condominium owners for damages, legal and other fees stemming from construction of the Southwest Light Rail line,…
On this edition of Capitol Watch: DFL upset about Lincoln portrait in House chamber Cancel culture has now reached President Abraham Lincoln, the man who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation declaring…
The most important address in Minnesota politics is located in St. Paul, but it’s not the state capitol building. The most important address is 1600 University Avenue. This glass office…
Minnesota’s proposed social studies standards encourage the radicalization of students.
Ken Martin, the head of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party, put out a press release on Good Friday touting their most recent fundraising results. The state’s version of the Democratic party…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced last week that, at 8.5 percent from March 2021 to March 2022, inflation was running at its fastest year-on-year rate since December 1981.…
At $13,600 in annual per student spending, Minnesota is considered a high-spending state relative to K-12 education spending across the country. Education spending amounts to 40 percent of our state…
House autocrats kept the public locked out as Democrats still met with each other and lobbyists on the side.
The Minnesota State Patrol instructed a local police department not to press charges against two high-ranking DFL office holders, even though there was clear evidence of an open bottle of…
The Minnesota Legislature is on “Spring Break” this week, taking some time off from all the hard work they’ve done passing bills and coming up with a plan to return…
A little over nine months ago, the Minnesota Reformer reported: Minnesota legislative leaders reached an education budget agreement Tuesday, just over a week before the June 30 deadline for lawmakers…
The State Senate passed a tax bill on Thursday that, among other things, would cut Minnesota’s bottom rate of state income tax from 5.35 percent to 2.80 percent. Refreshingly in…
In March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the Consumer Price Index had risen by 7.9% over the previous year, the fastest year-on-year rate since January 1982. Stripping out volatile…
Rochester officials must be fans of the “if you build it, they will come” way of doing things. They’re racing to fill in the blanks on a vaguely defined $65…