As we embark on our third foray of Check & Balances I am struck by how political issues have a life of their own and frequently come full circle. The focus of this installment is on the property tax system. In Lead By Example, Duane Benson, Executive Director of...
Duane Benson is the Executive Director of the Minnesota Business Partnership, a public policy group that represents Minnesota’s largest companies. He was a state senator for 14 years–six of those as Senate Minority Leader. While in the State Senate, Benson...
Representative Myron Orfield (DFL 60B) is an attorney and a law professor. Rep. Orfield serves on the Environment & Natural Resources, Local Government & Metropolitan Affairs, and the Property Tax & Tax Increment Finance (TIF) Division committees. Myron...
Dan Salomone joined the MN Taxpayers Association as their executive director in April of 1991. Prior to joining the MN Taxpayer’s Association, Dan served as a nonpartisan research director for the MN Department of Revenue and the MN Senate. During his tenure at...
Mr. John Earl Haynes was Governor Wendell Anderson’s Staff Assistant for Tax and School Finance Policy in 1971. He is currently a historian with the Library of Congress. The Minnesota Miracle Of 1971 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it...
