Sep 4, 2025
Minnesota Report Normally, in an odd-numbered year, there isn’t much to discuss in politics beyond the municipal elections in Minneapolis and St. Paul. But that was before the chaos unleashed in the Bizarro world of Donald J Trump (R), where nearly every day brings a...
Sep 4, 2025
Minnesota Report As municipal elections near, critical decisions loom in both Minneapolis and St. Paul. Voters should pay close attention to who is asking for their vote—and what their record actually shows. Minneapolis: A Defining Race for the City’s Future In...
Sep 4, 2025
Minnesota Report Here is our standard offering from the Minnesota State Fair. Read these results and you will see some of the priorities for the four different legislative caucuses in the forthcoming 2026 legislative session....
Sep 4, 2025
Minnesota Report Here is Our Offering to St Paul Checks & Balances was born in St Paul, and we care about the Capitol City and so we created something for you to see. It’s intended to make a mockery of the current administration and diminish the substandard...
Aug 29, 2025
Minnesota Report Once again, we provide you the State Fair Polls, which historically, we have learned these questions will often become issues for consideration in each body, and potentially legislation during the forthcoming legislative session. The results will be...
Aug 26, 2025
National & Minnesota Report We learned long ago to “Beware the Unititended Consequences”, but Donald J Trump’s (R) most recent bout showing his (lack of) brilliance, while he sports a hat making an unfounded, contrary statement, (Trump was Always Right...
Aug 26, 2025
Minnesota Report Good Question. We believe it is not likely. Why because Governor Tim Walz (DFL) doesn’t need the job, as we previously expressed, he has three pensions, so he is fine financially. So what does his decision mean? We declare its Domino Theory, he moves...
Aug 26, 2025
Mineesota Report This is our opinion and go ahead and sue us. Jim Cockerall, through Madison Equities and screwed St Paul. He through and through, with the acquisitions of properties such as the Lowery Building, the building which housed the Hat Trick bar, the...
Jul 25, 2025
Minnesota Report Yesterday, we learned State Representative Kaohly Her (DFL-64A, St Paul) is committed to file for mayor of the Capitol City when the filing opens on April 29th. She is a four-term legislator, Hmong woman, who had the fortune to be in the right place...
Jul 25, 2025
Minnesota Report Since, our inception in 1995, Checks & Balances has prided itself on offering analytics based on numbers. Here are the numbers associated with all of the expected candidates in the mayoral contest at this time. 2025 St Paul Mayoral Candidate...
