Congress Set to Legalize Industrial Hemp

Word out of Washington DC is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is planning to introduce The Hemp Farming Act of 2018 and include it in the Farm Bill. On Monday he held a press conference with Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles to announce that...

Anti-RCV Bill Passes Senate Committee

Yesterday, the Senate State Government Finance and Policy and Elections Committee passed SF3325 on a party line vote of 5-4. Each opponent on the committee deferred to local control, but the problem is election law is set by the legislature and not a locality. Voting...

Listen to Shawn Towle on The Sue Jeffers Show

You can hear the podcast of The Sue Jeffers Show from Saturday with guest Checks & Balances Publisher Shawn Towle discussing a range of topics from Ranked Choice Voting to the race for Governor....

Learning Lessons from MNLARS

It is clear the existing governmental legacy systems are outdated. It is also evident whenever an attempt is made to replace rather than once again retrofit these legacy systems it will likely result in an epic failure. Truly these systems need a wholesale change and...

Students Stage a Die-In

Students from a number of Southwest Minneapolis Schools came to the State Capitol and staged a Die-In in front of the House Chamber while it was in session. They remained mostly silent and immobile on the floor where some had small paper signs with slogans like,...