Feb 24, 2015 ... The next time your right-wing family member or former high school classmate  posts a status update or tweet about how taxing the rich or increasing workers'  wages kills jobs and makes businesses leave the state, I want you to send them  this article. When he took office in January of 2011, Minnesota ...
Feb 18, 2015 ... The day before Halloween, a band of 40 or so middle-aged Democratic activists  gathered in the parking lot of a long-closed KFC in Eagan, a southern suburb of  the Twin Cities, to listen to a handful of state party leaders speak. The party  bigwigs, who were crisscrossing the state on a last-minute campaign ...
Oct 29, 2016 ... Really? If that's all you've been paying attention to, 2016 could be one of the most  surprising elections of your life. After November 8, medical marijuana could be  legal in a majority of the country. America could elect its first openly bisexual  governor. The food-stamp program could be dismantled. A tax on ...
Sep 5, 2017 ... Michigan has the most for-profit charter schools in the country and some of the  least state oversight. Even staunch charter advocates have blanched at the  Michigan model. The story of Carver is the story of Michigan's grand educational  experiment writ small. It spans more than two decades, three governors ...
Mar 9, 2016 ... ... Minnesota tonight. As most Minnesotans know, our State Capitol is undergoing  a monumental renovation and is largely inaccessible. ... I hope that our fellow  citizens will recognize and appreciate that, in this important instance, your  elected representatives have done their jobs very well. I look forward to ...
For decades before I was elected, governors tried and failed to get Minnesota out of the top 10 highest-taxed states in the country. I actually did it.