The 94th Minnesota Legislature will convene on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. And when that happens, it appears that Republicans will hold a slight, if temporary, advantage in both houses. Two…
On Thursday, December 12, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Michael Horowitz released his report entitled “A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Handling…
Minnesota needs to update its obsolete budget forecast schedule and replace it with one more closely aligned with their fiscal year.
In what turned out to be a two-project race, the new state flag defeated Tim Walz’s DEI staff to win American Experiment’s 2024 Golden Turkey Award. The Golden Turkey Award…
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…
The website fatehformayor.com has gone live and Blois Olson reports that the state senator has a city hall press conference scheduled for tomorrow (Monday). We had earlier reported that Sen.…
I’ll be blunt. The news of Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from consideration in the Attorney General nomination process is a relief. Our Nation’s Attorney General must be a person of impeccable character. While…
2025 will be an election year in Minneapolis, with the mayor and the entire city council on the ballot. Incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey appears ready to run for a third…
As President-elect Donald Trump fills in the blanks of his incoming Administration, some of the earliest appointments have come in the areas of energy and the environment. Most prominent among…
President-elect Donald Trump may have only made one campaign stop in the state this year, but that’s all it took to get the attention of supporters of overturning the Biden…
I write occasional articles about Minnesota’s history for our magazine, Thinking Minnesota. In the course of doing so, I often write more material than I have room for, as was…
I guess we’ll find out for sure once the new legislature convenes in January. In the meantime, we search for signs and portents. As for trends, I’ve been pointing to…
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon has a problem. Too many Minnesotans don’t trust the election system he manages. According to the latest Thinking Minnesota Poll, nearly one in four…
Palo Alto’s Emerson Collective LLC appears to have done exactly that in the case of an Assistant Commissioner slot at the state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). In…
It’s no secret that the state teachers’ union and its affiliates are big spenders on politics. During 2022, Education Minnesota’s Political Action Committee (PAC) spent $5.4 million on statewide general…
Reflections on the revolution in Britain.
It’s said a picture tells a thousand words. Charting Minnesota’s violent crime rate vs. imprisonment rate tells us a lot about the effect progressive leadership has had on these important public…
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Judiciary held a joint hearing to gather more information on the July 13 assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. This…
A package of bipartisan health policies is currently moving through the U.S. House of Representatives to strengthen federal price transparency requirements on providers and health plans. The Lower Costs, More…
Good News/Bad News in Budget Forecast The state released the February budget forecast Friday, setting the stage for negotiations on the next two-year budget. The good news? The forecast predicts…
A new bill introduced in the Minnesota Senate will allow a physician not licensed in Minnesota to provide telehealth services in Minnesota.
So Al Franken has chosen to leave the Senate on a Paul Wellstonian note. Borrowing from the late Senator Wellstone, Franken tells us that politics is all about improving the…
A close reading of the omnibus energy bills in the Minnesota House and the Senate reveals that a welcome, albeit slight, policy shift may be underway in the Senate. After…
Back in 2004, Rep. Steve Smith, R-Mound, and Sen. Leo Foley, DFL-Coon Rapids, were the chief authors of legislation aimed at deterring repeat sex offenders.