St. Paul, Minn. — A Minnesota Public Radio News analysis finds that more than a third of the school districts in the state have been forced to [...]
Pawlenty did what he had to do to balance the budget.
Why?
Because state lawmakers were unable [...]
As I read it, there are two main issues. First, Pawlenty’s actions stretched far beyond what is allowed by Minnesota’s [...]
A Republican with deep ties to the Minnesota business community has decided against a run for governor next year.
Minnesota Business Partnership Executive Director Charlie Weaver said today he won’t get into the wide-open race. Weaver had been mulling a campaign since incumbent GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty ruled [...]
Former GOP state Rep. Ron Erhardt of Edina is exploring a run for his old House seat as a Democrat.
“I’m looking to run. I raised money earlier in the year,” said Erhardt today in a telephone interview with PIM…
…Erhardt said it appears his chances of winning [...]
The Pontiac Silverdome, site of countless amazing runs by Lions great Barry Sanders and MHSAA football championship games, has depreciated in value.
A lot.
An unidentified Toronto-based group submitted the winning bid for the [...]
Minnesota Vikings owners Zygi and Mark Wilf today said the team is breaking off [...]
MnIndy summarizes:
“It’s usurping the power of the legislature… Right [...]
For 2 1/4 years now I have been saying that there is no chance of a repeat of the Great Depression or anything like it — that we know what to do and how to do it and will do it if things turn south.
I don’t think I can [...]
Conservative Doug Hoffman conceded the race in the 23rd Congressional District last week after receiving two pieces of grim news for his campaign: He was down 5,335 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted [...]
The Rules Committee of the Minnesota House of Representatives has approved resolution R19a which allows for a brief of amicus curiae to be filed supporting a lawsuit challenging budget unallotments made by the administration [...]
In [...]
The state of Minnesota’s financial picture looks so bleak that top officials are considering a rare move: Borrowing money to make [...]
So far there have been a few endorsements but many of them have been of the favorite son/daughter variety. The Nurses endorsed Paul Thissen [...]
Two nights ago, Stewart busted Fox News’s Sean Hannity for using [...]
These [...]
That one vote was Anh “Joseph” Cao, who said the following about this support for the bill:
I have always said that I would put aside partisan wrangling to do the business [...]
As I wrote yesterday, the House Republicans’ health care plan would still leave 52 million without insurance. But don’t worry, there is one way you could still get healthcare:
[...] …I want you to know that today we filed the paperwork to create the R.T. Rybak for Governor Committee.
Obviously, this isn’t a surprise. Everybody knew it was coming, and I think Rybak will make a strong candidate. All the [...]
I’ll have more to say on this — in [...]
Here’s the Congressional Budget Office’s [...]
Jeff Rosenberg, Zack Stephenson, Sean Broom, Megan Gamble
