Apr 7, 2016
This November voters will be asked to vote on a Constitutional Amendment to create an independent commission to set the salaries for legislators pay. Now many people will point out legislators work only part-time, which is not true because their responsibilities are...
Apr 7, 2016
DFL Party Chair Ken Martin has it right when he is calling for two events regarding Presidential delegate selection. The idea of a Presidential Primary is not a new one; it was the child of Pat Forciea and Gary Cervenik in 1988 and resulted in great political lists...
Apr 7, 2016
The recent Supreme Court ruling on the Evenwel v. Abbot, a Texas Redistricting case, in this case Abbot is the former Texas Attorney General now Governor Greg Abbot (R-TX) is the fact a normally divided court on an 8-0 decision knocked down a partisan by redistricting...
Mar 1, 2016
The reason tonight is called Super Tuesday because the major political parties sought a vehicle for early consolidation of support for their respective candidates. Because the delegate selection is metered out over a course of months, the thought was to lump a number...
Feb 23, 2016
A week from today, interested persons will gather in churches, classrooms and community centers across the state of Minnesota for precinct caucuses to start the process for delegate selection which ultimately leads to national delegate selection. The determining...
Feb 12, 2016
In ideology politics between parties, a tactic found most successful is to co-opt the core issues of the opposing party and reconfigure them as your own. On the battlefield this could be seen as a flanking maneuver. This was an effective tactic, when political party...
Jan 6, 2016
The answer to the question of: What What Do MN Senate Republicans and Donald J Trump Have in Common?, is well you tell a lie enough times it doesn’t become the truth. The bald-faced lie they continue to perpetuate is their intractability on moving from the...
Dec 4, 2015
Ever since the tax policies advanced by the DFL majorities in both houses of the legislature, during the 2013-14 legislative session, and then signed by Governor Mark Dayton (DFL), the state of Minnesota has experienced surpluses and projected surpluses continue. This...
Nov 4, 2015
Our publisher Shawn Towle, was born in Duluth, and he was watching last night’s election results in the Zenith City will great interest. Mainly, because he hoped for Ranked Choice Voting to finally fail in a municipal election. Additionally, he was also watching...
Aug 27, 2015
There will be Democrats far and wide in Minneapolis this weekend for the Democratic National Committee Summer meeting. We will not be surprised if some wander over to the Great Minnesota Get-Together in St Paul. The candidates for the Democratic Presidential...
