Minnesota Report The House and Senate leadership of both parties are scheduled to meet with Gvoernor Tim Walz (DFL-MN) tomorrow. It will be the first such meeting of this legislative session and also the first since the Republicans and the DFL have secured a tied...
International, National, & Minnesota Report You may not have ever heard of it, but there is a place on the Horn of Africa called Somaliland. It is not fully recognized currently the emerging nation has political connections and so informal embassies in Ethiopia,...
National & Minnesota Report With the announcement today, of Donald J Trump’s (R) recent spate of tariffs, which keep coming on Tuesdays, now establishes a 25% tariff on all imports of aluminum and steel coming from every source, America is now at odds will...
Minnesota Report The closely watched Special Election in 40B-Roseville, was positioned to determine a potential historic election of a tied state houseand establish the balance of power in the State House. Candidate David Gottfried (DFL-40B, Roseville) trounced Paul...
National & Minnesota Report New reports about Donald J Trump (R) opened with terms like whiplash and rollercoaster when describing the decisions made at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue over the course of the last two days. In the matter of tariffs, Trump signed an...
Minnesota Report On its face, the Revenue Forecast has taken a $160M drop in its estimate from November, but the impact of decisions from the Donald J Trump (R) Administration can still wreak a great deal of havoc depending on the various decisions it makes. Because...
National & Minnesota Report The concept of a madman in the White House as first applied to Richard M Nixon (R) and his foreign policy associated with the how he tried to address leadership present in communist bloc countries. By creating the concept of irrational...
Minnesota Report On Thursday, the State Economist Anthony Becker, Office of Management and Budget Director Ahna Minge and the Commissioner for Revenue Paul Marquart will release the February Revenue Forecast as developed by the Office of Management and Budget with...
Minnesota Report Since agriculture has a significant influence on our state economy, nearly 15% and ranks 7th in the nation for agricultural productivity our state clearly relies on this economic sector. We asked Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen a series of...
National & Minnesota Report An erroneous Instagram post about Maine Governor Janet Mills’ (D-ME) withholding of Federal Dollars, sparked an interesting idea, the possibility of not forwarding federal income tax collections in lieu of the monies owed to the states...