Feb 15, 2022
National and Minnesota Report Former Minneapolis City Council, School Board member and staunch critic of the Reform the Police Charter Amendment aka Defund the Police, Don Samuels, is preparing to challenge Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN05) for the 5th Congressional...
Feb 15, 2022
Minnesota Report We, like every other political person, will be paying close attention to the State Redistricting Panels website, as they release the Congressional and State Legislative Maps today at 12:00 pm. https://www.mncourts.gov/2021redistrictingpanel The impact...
Feb 9, 2022
Minnesota Report On Monday, while leaving the House floor at the end of the session, House Speaker Melissa Hortman while speaking with her Press Secretary Ted Modrich pondered out loud in a manner intended to be overhead, whether the need for masks in the House would...
Feb 9, 2022
Minnesota Report The execution of Amir Locke, which all can clearly see on video, maybe the catalyst which brings about an end to No-Knock Warrants. Statements from the Gun Rights Owners Caucus and the BIPOC community, Governor Tim Walz (DFL-MN) and other legislative...
Feb 9, 2022
Minnesota Report In spite of the dramatic changes brought about by Donald J Trump (R) in the Republican Party, moving from a national defense posture against Russia, not placating North Korea and active engagement with China, some core values, like law and order, tax...
Feb 7, 2022
Minnesota Report Because we have a divided legislature, are in the midst of an off-year election with new forthcoming legislative districts, and unless there are incentives for all sides to compromise, the status quo will prevail. Meaning, if there isn’t an agreement...
Feb 7, 2022
Minnesota Report The erosion in the base-funding for Minnesota’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund started in 2016. Critics argue House Speaker Kurt Daudt (R-31A, Crown) held Iron Range Unemployment hostage to get the reductions in the fund payments from employers....
Feb 7, 2022
National and Minnesota Report As Minnesota’s first digital political publication, we have carried opinion from outside voices throughout our history dating back to 1995. Here is a submission on an issue which is currently under attack in across the nation in...
Feb 3, 2022
Minnesota Report We participated in a Zoom call with Governor Tim Walz (DFL-MN) and the legislative leadership, Senate Majority Leader Jeremy Miller (R-28, Winona), Senate Minority Leader Melisa Lopez Franzen (DFL-49, Edina), House Minority Leader Ryan Winkler...
Feb 2, 2022
Minnesota Report Last night, the Republican Party of Minnesota held, in-person caucuses, again, this is the GOP response across the board, as we discussed yesterday in the MN State Senate Office Building in our article Two Different Worlds in the State Senate Office...
