All progress on the state budget came to a grinding halt this week when House Democrats broke an agreement with Republicans to move budget bills to the floor once they…
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…
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…
The state could be heading for a constitutional crisis Tuesday if all 66 Democratic Representatives-elect fail to show up, get sworn in, and fulfill their duties. At this writing, the…
Back in 1973, when Time magazine ran a story titled “The Good Life in Minnesota” and put our state’s governor, Wendell Anderson, on the cover, the article stated: “Politics is almost…
News outlets (AlphaNews and KSTP) have obtained the settlement document between sitting state Rep. Bianca Virnig (DFL-Eagan) and her former outside employer, BrightWorks. KSTP reporter Tom Hauser posted the document…
The state house of representatives Rules Committee voted today to pay private lawyers more than $10,000 to represent a sitting member in a private employment dispute. In a lame-duck, virtual…
The Minnesota Legislature is about to build another new office building for themselves, and the Golden Turkey committee is here for it. Without a single vote on the floor of…
The $730 million renovation and expansion of the State Office Building may somehow be worse than previously thought. A recent review of the 2022 House Rules Committee meeting where the…
Capitol insiders claim that the Kremlin-style reviewing platform was a last-minute addition to the plan. The road to the $730 million state office building (SOB) project for the state House…
The Minnesota Legislature is about to build yet another new office building for themselves and once again, they’re doing it without ever taking a vote on the floor of the…
Now we know where the surplus went — staff raises and member per diems. Yesterday the House Rules Committee met and voted to increase their per diem payments from $66…
The article below originally appeared at the American Energy Alliance: On November 19, the House of Representatives passed a $2 trillion budget bill with a long list of increases in federal royalties…
It gets crazy in the waning hours of a legislative session. But House Minority Leader Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis has displayed “a disturbing pattern of verbal abuse of Republican Staff” on…