Education Minnesota held a press conference earlier in the week to inform people that they were preparing to begin their endorsement process nearly a year before the election. The teacher’s union felt it was imperative for their organization to step forward and send a...
This week the US Supreme Court ruled that states can limit the amounts made in combined campaign expenditures to candidates for office. It doesn’t appear that Minnesota will be significantly affected by this decision. We queried both the Republican and DFL parties for...
The legislative Special Session has been marked by a number of fits and starts. The leadership has pushed the resolution all the way to the end and that is exactly what we expected. Today, during the Tax Bill debate, the DFL minority sought to amend the bill and after...
Governor Jesse Ventura (I) to his credit may have accomplished something proposed nearly 10 years ago by Governor Arne Carlson (R-MN). That is the restructuring of the tax system. The questions are how will this affect the funding of state government in the long run?...
Former Councilmember Bob Long (DFL-St Paul) informed an assemble group of supporters this evening that he will be a candidate in the St. Paul Mayoral race. He is set to make a public declaration at an 11:00 am a press conference, but his first campaign activity for...
