Apr 20, 2023
Minnesota Report Last night, Governor Tim Walz (DFL-MN) returned to the House Legislative Chamber to deliver his State of the State address. It was clear from the tenor of the speech, the highlights of accomplishments were far greater with DFL control of the...
Apr 20, 2023
Minnesota Report In spite of recuperating at home, and referenced in the speech by Governor Tim Walz (DFL-MN), Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic (DFL-60, Minneapolis) released the following statement in response to the Governor’s State of the State Address...
Apr 20, 2023
Minnesota Report GPS Technology is the tool Uber and Lyft use to determine their costs for a pick-up for ride shares. Door Dash uses the same for deliveries and UPS makes all of its delivery routes as right turn only to determine the fewest stops for drivers. Instead...
Apr 20, 2023
Minnesota Report Today, the Department of Employment and Economic Development released the Unemployment Rate and Labor Force Participation Rate report for March 2023. Unemployment Rate Down; Labor Force Participation Rate Remains the Same Minnesota lost 5,700 jobs in...
Apr 11, 2023
National & Tennessee Report Upon learning about the brewing controversy over the three Tennessee Democratic Assembly members, who voiced their collective opposition to the lack of responsible gun laws, in the aftermath of the March 27, 2023, Covenant School...
Apr 11, 2023
National, Minnesota, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida Report The US Supreme Court may be facilitating the failure of our nation and the demise of our democratic experiment, by its divisive decisions on issues of importance to the entirety of our population and not just...
Apr 11, 2023
National Report On Friday, in Northern Texas, 5th US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision to suspend the Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug mifepristone, over twenty years after its first approval, 9th US District Judge Thomas Rice in the...
Apr 3, 2023
Minnesota Report In the 1980s, the Fridley plant President Joe Biden (D) will visit was called Cummings Diesel, but now it is called Cummings Power Generation Facility. Soon after Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, Cummings announced it would commence...
Apr 3, 2023
Minnesota Report The question about Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is not a settled public policy matter. Despite the DFL now holding the governorship and both branches of the legislature, this issue does not have universal acceptance, especially with Republicans and...
Apr 3, 2023
Minnesota Report As Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is challenged as a viable voting system, this does not mean there is a lack of need for electoral reform. If claims of voting integrity can be voiced, and proven, then they should be addressed. Minnesota has a solid...
