It is our opinion, on the House side the Bonding Bill will rise and approach a billion dollars, but will not exceed a billion. Our indications from Capital Investment Committee Chair Dean Urdahl (R-18A, Grove City) reinforce this idea. Although, while Urdahl uses the...
Some ta-do was made of Sen. Leroy Stumpf’s (DFL-01, Plummer) unexpected medical procedure as one thing holding up the Bonding Bill. As we understand it the true obstacle lies in the House and the inability to wrangle together the necessary 91 votes. Capital Investment...
Today’s appointment of Sen Ellen Anderson (DFL-66, St. Paul) as chair of the Public Utilities Commission has created a bit of buzz around the legislature specifically in the House. She has successfully extended her high five for state pension purposes with the...
Anyone who thinks Governor Mark Dayton (DFL) and the DFL legislative minorities will automatically be on the same page this legislative session are sorely mistaken. Just because they are of the same party, does not mean all are in lockstep. Such is the case regarding...
Last Thursday, Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) made his last State of the State address. After a number of jokes—which fell painfully flat—a speech by many accounts, existed as not more than a rehash of his last seven speeches, he put forward a proposal for the state’s two...
