Stadium Talk

The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission will be holding an open house discussion on the Stadia issues. On Wednesday, April 4 from 4-7 p.m. at the Woodbury Senior High School Cafeteria, the public is invited to an informal open house to learn about the stadium...

Yanisch Heads DTED

The idea of Rebecca Yanisch being a candidate to fill the vacancy at Department of Trade and Economic Development was not an unfamiliar idea to us at Checks & Balances. In fact, we discussed it with a number of sources close to and in the administration, but our...

The Chair Speaks

DFL Chair Mike Erlandson is still one of two Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington DC with the title Mr Chair the other is Terry McAullife chair of the Democratic National Committee. In a show that everything is not political Erlandson contacted us to acknowledge...

Long Odds in St Paul

There is some talk in political circles about the possibilities for the various candidates in the race for Mayor of St. Paul.  The attention in the DFL endorsement is being focused mainly on City Councilmember Jay Benanav (DFL-Ward 04, St Paul) and former Council...

Single Year Session

The idea for a single legislative session may have gotten the necessary boost with an amendment of moving the actual business part of the legislative session to second year of the biennium instead of the first.   The structure of the legislative activities would be to...