Minnesota Was One Heartbeat Away From Being Wisconsin or Michigan

Here is food for thought or a DFL Doomsday Scenario granted its a little morose. What if  Minnesota had faced a situation where Governor Mark Dayton’s (DFL-MN) health failed during the late stages of the election. As we now know he was hospitalized. If Dayton had...

Minnesota: That Was Then This Is Now. (1978 & 2018)

The last time Minnesota had two US Senate seats up for consideration was in 1978. The election widely referred to as the Minnesota Massacre, because of the long-standing victories by the DFL Party candidates for offices up and down the ticket came to a crashing halt....

Analyzing the Ventura Address?

There were two specific times during the Governor Jesse Ventura’s (RP-MN) State of the State address that generated a visceral response from the elected officials present. The first point was when he pointed out directly that he was in conflict with the House...

C&B 1996: MN Property Tax: Words of Wisdom (Dan Salamone)

Dan Salomone joined the MN Taxpayers Association as their executive director in April of 1991. Prior to joining the MN Taxpayer’s Association, Dan served as a nonpartisan research director for the MN Department of Revenue and the MN Senate. During his tenure at...