Peter Callaghan covers state government for MinnPost. Follow him on Twitter or email him at pcallaghan(at)minnpost(dot)com.
Despite some calls for sweeping changes, the special five-judge panel overseeing the process went small when it redrew lines for Minnesota 201 legislative districts and eight congressional districts.
Twenty nine states have legalized betting on professional and college sports since a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Neither the Minnesota House nor the state Senate is going to pass their own versions of the maps that will determine a lot about which party controls politics in the state for the next decade.
Commissioner Jennifer Leimaile Ho was left to defend the agency after it stopped taking applications for RentHelpMN with just two days notice last month.
Legislative Republicans want the fund replenished from the state’s budget surplus before rate increases kick in for employers. But some DFLers aren’t there yet.
Three of Walz’s appointees in particular have drawn the attention of GOP Senators: Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm, Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell and Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho.
Tracking all the declared candidates.
Perhaps the idea of residents opening checks from the state government in an election year started sounding better — especially if they’re called something else.
Even though the political action is on the GOP side as the party takes the first steps to select its endorsed candidate for governor, a decision by the state DFL to allow some non-citizens and felons who have completed their sentences to participate has attracted criticism.
A $7.75 billion surplus means there’s plenty of money to go around. But with a divided Legislature and an election on the horizon, finding agreement on how to spend it may be difficult.
A lot of Walz’s proposed spending would be embedded into the state operating budget, obligating the state to spend more in the future to keep those programs in place.
The purpose of U’s “constitutional autonomy” is to create a buffer between the politics of the Legislature and the academic values of the university, says retired U of M law professor Fred Morrison. “It’s that buffer that makes it function.”
Known as the “pass-through entity tax,” law is similar to others passed in at least 22 states — all aimed at helping certain businesses get around an unpopular 2017 change in federal law.
The amendment — which would make it the “paramount duty” of the state to provide all children in Minnesota with a quality public education — will require a majority vote of the state House and Senate to get on the ballot this fall.
It wasn’t all good news Monday. The quarterly update contained a warnings from the state’s macroeconomic consultant — that the November forecast was based on a prediction for the national economy that was too optimistic.
The four proposals would create a similar number of majority-minority and “minority opportunity” districts, even if only one of the plans has the expressed goal of increasing the political clout of Minnesota’s communities of color.
Understanding the permutations of pitches to Minnesota political donors as the end of 2021 approached.
Tuesday’s oral arguments will be the final chance for the groups hoping to influence a special five-judge panel charged with drawing new congressional and legislative districts for Minnesota if (or when) the Legislature fails to agree on a new political map.
Why so much of what elected officials talked about in 2021 — and journalists wrote about in 2021 — didn’t actually come to pass.
How much more? According to Minnesota Management and Budget, the surplus started off at $8.98 billion before some of the money was spent thanks to a series of financial triggers set off when the state brings in excess revenue.
