State and local taxes and spending Kare 11: With property taxes rising in Minneapolis, taxation board president urges new ideas KSTP: Roseville homeowner sounds alarm over 35% property tax increase…
On December 5, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Dr. Oz, sent a letter to Governor Tim Walz, warning that failure to address fraud could cost Minnesota…
State and local taxes and spending KTTC: Property taxes: Where do they go and who sets the amounts? Star Tribune: Opinion | Minnesota’s fiscal system is under serious pressure. Might…
State and local taxes and spending 105fm: Minnesota Property Tax Collections Set To Rise By $950 Million KFGO: Minnesota property owners brace for tax increases Alpha News: Candidate questions county’s…
State and local taxes and spending Star Tribune: Ramstad: The next year is going to be tough for Minnesota governments and politics Minn Post: Minnesota has over $5 billion it…
Economic growth Star Tribune: Target layoffs reflect economic trends: ‘We’re starting to see cracks’ Star Tribune: Halloween businesses were worried, but now think last-minute spending surge will save them Minn…
Economic growth Duluth News Tribune: Candidate’s View: Economic growth matters to Duluth; standing still comes at a cost Star Tribune: Opinion | The culprit behind our precarious state? A stagnant…
State and local taxes and spending The Ely Echo: City tax hike at 6.54 percent Sun This Week: Apple Valley levy, taxes on the rise Sun Current: Edina council adopts…
Labor market MPR News: July jobs report: Minnesota economy strong but slowing as shifting federal policy creates uncertainty St. Cloud Live: Minnesota economy remains stable despite layoffs, tariffs, DEED says…
Land acknowledgments are based in woke ideology, not the truth. If you’ve attended a cultural event or government meeting in the Twin Cities in the last few years, you’ve likely…
State and local taxes and spending Pine Journal: Walz calls one-day special session of Minnesota Legislature MPR News: Special session called for Monday for legislators to finish Minnesota’s next budget…
State and local taxes and spending Fox 9: Baby bonus, social media tax, sports betting squeeze into tax bills Minn Post: Is the nation’s first social media tax coming to…
State and local taxes and spending WCCO: Minnesota Legislature to return from break Monday with budget battle ahead Austin Daily Herald: Sen. Gene Dornink: Financial pressures mounting KROC: Minnesota Tax…
The steady decline in the quality of mail service in recent years has been well documented by MinnPost and other media outlets across the country. The saga over unreliable mail…
For more than a decade, members of Congress were banned from slipping spending requests for pet projects in their districts, known as earmarks, into spending bills. But as MinnPost points…
Economic development Star Tribune: Will tax credits bring more film and TV production to Minnesota? Northern News Now: ‘They’re very entrepreneurial groups:’ Immigration and Northeast Minnesota’s economy Regulation Bring Me…
You would expect that a raging constitutional crisis and an “attempted coup” would be more, well… kinetic. The House reconvened at noon today in the state capitol House Chamber for…
We appear to be in the midst of a slow-motion coup here in the North Star State, all in the service of overturning the results of the state House of…
We are all familiar with the famous quote incorrectly attributed to the French writer Voltaire: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right…
State and local taxes and spending Pioneer Press: St. Paul ‘Truth in Taxation’ hearing scheduled Monday, but Carter and council still $6 million apart Pine and Lakes Echo Journal: Letter…
Two years ago, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) forecast a state government budget surplus of $18 billion for the 2024-2025 biennium. In the event, not only was every penny of…
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…
That’s the apparent situation in Shakopee, MN, where the incumbent DFL state Rep. Brad Tabke leads his Republican opponent, Aaron Paul, by 14 votes out of nearly 22,000 votes cast…
State and local taxes and spending Minn Post: Goldilocks report? Minnesota tax collections show economy not too cold, not too hot Star Tribune: Minneapolis to look at new taxes as…