Regulation KSTP: Business owners await decision this month on whether paid leave payroll tax will go up KSTP: Minnesota’s Paid Family Leave program paying out nearly $600M. Is wage tax funding enough to keep it going? St. Cloud Times: Minnesota paid leave...
This is my fourth post, of hopefully many to come, as a regular weekly resource for our readers: for news, commentary and more; on energy, environment and natural resources; from around the state, country and world. The top ten stories, for the week ending on...
Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, most recently an international fugitive from justice, appeared in court this afternoon at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul. Your correspondent was there. Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota put out a press release...
Ryan Wolner Booking Photo – Martin County Sheriff’s Office Bail in Minnesota Minnesota is an outlier among states when it comes to mandating bail in criminal cases. Minnesota’s courts have interpreted the Minnesota Constitution to mandate a “bail only” option...
There’s an old Schoolhouse Rock jingle that explains in about three minutes how a lonely bill on Capitol Hill hopes to become a law someday. Catchy tune, and it taught something. For young Minnesotans, a week with the Summer Student Senate is a chance to...
The Natural Gas Innovation Act, or NGIA, is yet another example of Orwellian doublespeak. Rather than being about innovation in natural gas, the NGIA’s provisions are about the replacement of natural gas. And like renewables in electricity, the replacements...
Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) (https://flic.kr/p/2qjKAnK) On July 1, news broke that a three-person panel containing Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison had pardoned a man who had been convicted of repeatedly raping a...
Two women from Philadelphia pled guilty this morning to Medicaid fraud at the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was there. Cynthia Allen, age 62, and Candice Langley, age 46, each pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit...
Maria Virginia Lopez Herandez, age 47, pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in downtown St. Paul to one count of illegal immigration. Your correspondent was there. Technically, Lopez, of Mexico, pled guilty to the misdemeanor charge of improper entry of...
“Ideas have consequences.” – Richard M. Weaver (1964) “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men,...