2011 A Year of Challenges for the Liquor Industry

Last week, we read about the want for Surly Brewing Company to build a brewing facility and create a destination place for people to sample their wares. The week before the issue of liquor store sales on Sunday, which coincided with the Super Bowl gained some...

Dayton Administration Republican Holdovers

When we first looked into the number of Republicans who remain in administration jobs, we did so based on the outcries by DFLers who believe this is the way the game was played; once your side loses you leave the field. It appears such is not the case. In fact, we...

Can You Have No Net Loss at the Same Time as No Net Gain?

The bill the NRA will be scoring this legislative session is HF498 sponsored by Rep Tony Cornish (R-24B, Good Thunder) this is the No Net Loss of Hunting Lands. His bill, along with HF332 sponsored by Rep Steve Drazkowski (R-28B, Wabasha) was heard yesterday in the...

Governor Dayton’s First Budget Address

The first budget address by Governor Mark Dayton (DFL) opened with the following remarks: Dayton said, “I have always said that a budget is about values and priorities, as well as dollars and cents. My budget represents my values and priorities, one of which is to...

AFSCME APPLAUDS GOV. DAYTON’S BUDGET

We received this release from AFSCME Council 5 and also learned 900 of their members took advantage of early retirement opportunities last year. Here is the release: AFSCME Council 5 praised Gov. Mark Dayton’s fair budget fix that balances $2 billion of service cuts...

Republican Party Response to Dayton Budget

Massive Dayton Tax Hikes Will Destroy Jobs St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton and Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb today issued the following statements regarding Governor Mark Dayton’s budget proposal. “With his deeply irresponsible budget...

Looking Northward at the 5B Special Election

Voting to fill the vacancy by Rep Tony Sertich (DFL-05B, Chisholm) began this morning at 7:00 am and will end in less than four hours. The three candidates seeking to fill the spot are Paul Jacobson (R), Cynthia Kafut-Hagen (IPMN) and Carly Melin (DFL).  This election...

Republican Response to Dayton Budget

During our trek from the Harold Stassen Building, which houses the Department of Revenue over to the Republican Press Conference at the State Capitol, we tweeted the following: Expected Republican response to Dayton MN highest income tax in nation sings the song...

Dayton Defines His Position on the Budget

Calling for shared sacrifice from those who have benefited the most during the last sixteen years Governor Mark Dayton (DFL-MN) put forward $37.09 billion budget for 2012-13. His budget contains $2.405 billion in cuts of which 60.49% is contained in keeping in place...

Melin Elected

Carly Melin (DFL) was elected to succeed Tony Sertich by a 60.41% majority over Paul Jacobson (R) with 35.48% and Cynthia Kafut-Hagen (IP) with 3.98% to district 05B…. This content is for Monthly General Subscription, Monthly Premium Subscription, Annual General...