Several people sent me the notice of the introduction of Senate File 1140, which provides a $15 million state grant to the nonprofit We Win Institute of Minneapolis. The bill…
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…
As the first week of Feeding Our Future Trial #2 comes to a close, we appear to have two guilty pleas in another, unrelated scandal. This scandal features some celebrity…
Center of the American Experiment has long warned of the economic consequences of our state’s constant loss of residents to other parts of the United States. A common response from…
Today, my colleague Martha Njolomole and I presented in front of the House Ways and Means Committee. Our presentation was titled “Minnesota’s looming budget deficit: Tax hikes are not an option”…
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…
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,…
Yes, Minnesota, there is now a new state agency that goes by the unwieldy name: MN Climate Innovation Finance Authority. The Center’s Sarah Montalbano wrote about this new entity yesterday.…
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…
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:…
The warring parties in the Minnesota 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…
Center of the American Experiment’s Public Safety Policy Fellow David Zimmer testified before the Minnesota Senate’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee yesterday. Zimmer presented the findings of his 2024 analysis…
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…
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…
This afternoon, the state senate Energy committee took up two bills to repeal the ban on new nuclear power plants. Today’s meeting was only possible because, under the current Senate…
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…
A frequent question/comment I get from readers regarding Constitutional Crisis 2025TM (now in Day 14) concerns elections for Supreme Court justices. Under the Minnesota system, justices are appointed by the…
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…
State and local taxes and spending Minn Post: How Walz’s proposed ‘tax cut’ would actually raise $108 million a year to help state budget Pioneer Press: Gov. Tim Walz recommends…
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…
This afternoon, Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the DFL’s position that a quorum in the state House requires 68 Representatives to be present. So what happens now? Not…