Legislature
FREE SPEECH ZONE | GOP tax proposal has no basis of fact
Like a bad meal, brought up again, the Republican dominated Senate repeated the old myth that business tax breaks will create jobs ("Minnesota GOP proposals would phase out state property taxes for businesses"; Pioneer Press 3/21). There are only three things wrong with this claim: it is unproven ... it damages our state's financial health ...MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Local school leaders offer sometimes surprising legislative priorities
Some surprising, as well as some continuing themes emerged through contacting 35 Minnesota district and charter school leaders from urban, suburban and rural communities. They were asked what was their single most important recommendation to/request from the 2012 state legislature.MORE »
Big plans, short session
“If you free up the entrepreneurs, the hard-working women and men of our great state, they’ll build an economy that is sustainable, and we’ll lead the recovery instead of waiting for it to come here,” Zellers said.
“Reform 2.0” includes dozens of individual proposals, many of them hatched during face-to-face meetings with business owners. Zellers said he’s hoping that at least some of those ideas are well received by the governor and the DFLers. MORE »
Bernie Hesse: Seeing hope in young organizers at Jimmy Johns
Bernie Hesse is the Director of Special Projects and Political Director at UFCW Local 1189. Hesse took a break from contract negotiations for grocery workers to talk to the Twin Cities Daily Planet about the future of unions and jobs in Minnesota. "We believe that working people should be paid a good and fair wage," he told the Daily Planet. "Nobody should have to worry about whether or not they can afford health care or put food on the table."MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Vikings Say Scratch Lotto Game Could be Part of Vikings Tax Plan
We've heard for some time that the Minnesota Vikings, and likely Vikings Tax bill sponsors Rep. Morrie Lanning, R-Moorhead and Sen. Julie Rosen, R-Fairmont, may be interested in using gambling to fund a new Vikings stadium.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Rybak Target Center Renovation, Statewide Vikings Tax
Minneapolis Mayor R. T. Rybak wants to have it both ways. On the one hand, this Tuesday (Feb 1, 2011), he appeared with billionaire publishing magnate Glen Taylor, hawking a plan to spend $155 million, much of it public money, on a "facelift" for Target Center, which the City owns and Taylor's Timberwolves and Lynx basketball teams play in.MORE »
Hammering out an agreement
GOP’s Abeler tells N. Minneapolis youth to ‘plug bullet holes’ with wooden nickels
On Feb. 16, residents of Minneapolis’ north side headed to St. Paul to lobby legislators on issues affecting them.MORE »
Legislators pitch amendments on guns, health care, labor and — amendments
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