Minnesota Connection to Pruitt Condo Deal

Over the weekend we learned about a potential tie between the Enbridge Pipeline Number 3 and EPA Head Scott Pruitt. The clear conflict of interest stems from Pruitt’s rental of a condo from Vicki Hart, the wife of J. Steven Hart, the chairman of the Enbridge’s...

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...

Klobuchar Picks Up the Franken Baton

US Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) along with US Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are putting pressure on Chairman US Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to take action and call Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg before the committee. Zuckerberg...

Is Smith’s Campaign Being Scripted by the DSCC?

There is a reoccurring theme being discussed in DFL quarters and it is whether or not the US Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) campaign is being run out of Washington DC by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). This is akin to Central Casting writing formulaic...

Do Republicans Want to Make Minnesota, Illinois?

We attended the Transportation and Regional Governance Policy Committee Chaired by Rep Linda Runbeck (R-38A, Circle Pines) to listen to a presentation of a report by the MN Department of Transportation on the Minnesota Tolling Study Report. This study involves an...

Walz Clarifies Position on Guns

Gubernatorial Candidate Congressman Tim Walz (D-MN01) is taking a bold step to define his positions on guns, rather than allowing his opponents to do so. He has put forward his positions showing his evolution on some issues, his viewpoint on others and directions he...