The House Announces its list of Committee Chairs for 2025

Minnesota Report The House Announces its list of Committee Chairs. The committee list, including co-chairs, is as follows (names are alphabetical): Agriculture Finance and Policy (Rep. Paul Anderson (R-Starbuck) and Rep. Rick Hansen (DFL-South St. Paul)) Capital...

The 2024 Election Results Will be Determined by the Suburban Vote

National & Minnesota Report In 1990, Checks & Balances publisher Shawn Towle, was a DFL Activist and called a Walking Subcaucus called Uncommitted Suburban Issues. This group was dubbed by some Labor Leaders as anti-Union, and others a quite appropriate in an...

Final Secretary of State Early Voting Tally

Minnesota Report We have received what are probably the last totals of early voting for the 2024 election from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office. The numbers are high, but once again not as high during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic. People appear to have forgone...

The Roberts Court and the Taney Court are Right Inline

National & Minnesota Report Our concern for the US Supreme Court exist as citizens of this nation and as amateur Constitutional scholars. The Internet is a fine repository of Constitutional works and means we do not need to dig through old boxes for our...

Absentee Ballot Counts

Minnesota Report Statewide Counts Applications submitted (11/1/24): 1,185,640 Accepted ballots (11/1/24): 989,807 This means of the Voters Registered at 7AM: 3,603,347 as of  08/19/24 3:37 PM at least 27.47%* Since, the number of registered voters, which can increase...

2024 Minnesota Legislative Races to Watch

Minnesota Report Everyone who follows Minnesota politics and is concerned about our state of affairs follows the legislative races. In the State Senate because of the vacation of Sen Kelly Morrison (DFL-MN) in Senate District 45 to vie for the open Congressional seat...

Secretary of State Reports Early Voting Numbers

Minnesota Report So far in this election, as reported by the Secretary of State’s Office, we have seen 47.69% of the 2020 absentee ballot election results we saw in 2020. Statewide Counts Applications submitted (10/24/24): 864,385 Accepted ballots (10/24/24):...