Tax Cuts Sets State Up for Deficits Again

The Republican Senate Majority is proposing $900 million in tax cuts, and reference the lack of tax cuts for sixteen years. We will remind people those who fail to appreciate history are doomed to repeat it. In 2000, when tax cuts were instituted, removal of the upper...

Are Suburban Republicans Cowards or Just Cagey?

Republicans legislators may be overwhelmingly stupid or uncommonly brilliant because they are not very forthcoming on their positions on Republican Presidential candidate Donald J Trump (R). Like it or not, Trump will have a significant effect on GOP turnout and...

Grocer Opposed to Wine in Grocery Stores

Advocates for wine sales in grocery stores have asked Rep. Bob Gunther (R-24A, Fairmont) if he would carry the bill and he declined. As one of two grocers in the State House, new Rep. Dean Simpson (R-10B, New York Mills) being the other, many of Gunther’s colleagues...

Steep Learning Curve

Lobbyists are frequently commenting on the lack of sophistication in the House with the new freshmen members. Unlike the belief “There are no stupid questions,” people in the business of educating legislators on issues feel they have their work cut out for...

Thanks, But No Thanks

The Rural DFL members of the House are trying to coalesce with their Republican colleagues but without much success. Originally, the two sides were to sit down with each other at a meeting called by Rep Richard “Doc” Mulder (R–21B, Ivanhoe), but the...