2003 Legislative Session Expectations

The legislative session opening is always ceremony and procedure.  Each body must elect its leadership for the forthcoming biennium and install the chamber officers.  Families join the new and returning legislators for the swearing-in ceremony and there rarely is any...

Line in the Sand

The Health and Human Services bill is set to be the fall guy for the 2001 legislative session. The Republicans in the State House are not taking the warnings of Governor Jesse Ventura (RP-MN) to heart, and refuse to blink and extract the “Woman’s Right to...