According to a Gallup survey of 170,000 adults nationwide, Minnesota ranks 13th in the nation for Democratic advantage just behind New Jersey and ahead of Washington state.
Two Minnesota lawmakers — Republican Reps. Mary Kiffmeyer and Ron Shimanski — are attending a conference hosted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a controversial corporate nonprofit that critics say allows corporations unrestricted access to state lawmakers, as well as the ability to draft business-friendly bills without public disclosure.
Minnesota is the only state to face the possibility of a government shutdown this year, but at least twenty states have had late budgets since 2002.
Minnesota’s members of the House of Representatives are back in their home districts gauging how constituents feel about federal issues. That feedback will also include town hall meetings for a number of Congress members including Reps. Tim Walz, Collin Peterson and Michele Bachmann. Will Minnesota’s town halls get as rowdy as ones around the nation? Time will tell. Here’s what Minnesota Congressional delegation was up to this week.
A report released this week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation found that Minnesota ranked in the top fifteen states for mortgage fraud claims in 2008 and in the top ten on a couple of measure. Specifically, data from…
The Big Fish in Bena, Minn., is endangered — and not because Minnesota’s fishing season opens at midnight. A rotting wood frame has landed the former Big Muskie Drive-In hamburger stand on the state’s Ten Most Endangered Historic Places list.
Supreme Court Justice David Souter plans to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court when the court’s current term is over at the end of June. Souter will likely stay on until President Obama’s nominee to replace him has…
Minnesota’s top health officials are in close communication with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta about the new flu that has killed more than 100 people in Mexico. But they aren’t calling the flu by the same name. The CDC calls it “swine flu,” but Minnesota Health Commissioner, Dr. Sanne Magnan, says the official state term is “H1N1 novel influenza.”
Michele Bachmann might not return to Congress, if one of the scenarios at Swing State Project for redistricting Minnesota after the 2010 U.S. Census comes to pass.
Oral arguments in Norm Coleman’s senate-election appeal are set for June 1, the Minnesota Supreme Court announced in an order (pdf) issued this morning — a schedule that adopts Coleman’s slower-paced proposal rather than Franken’s fast-track plan.
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