Ron Way endorses Ron Erhardt in 49A

March 13, 2016

Ron Way, former Assistant Commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, official with the U.S. Department of Interior, staffer on Capitol Hill in Washington, reporter for newspapers, including the Star Tribune, and frequent contributor to the Strib and MinnPost, is a resident of House District 49A in Edina. Ron supports Representative Erhardt for re-election. Here […]

by Steve Timmer

Endorsing Ron Erhardt

March 8, 2016

The other members of the SD49 delegation endorse Ron

by Steve Timmer

Norm Coleman won’t vote for the Donald

March 5, 2016

And it’s all Barack Obama’s fault!

by Steve Timmer

The answer is a TIF

March 1, 2016

Here’s the question: If you take a student from every grade in the Edina Public Schools and lay them end to end, and then you do it again, what do you get? Well, you get a TIF. That’s how long a TIF at Grandview would last. Perhaps obviously, I am just talking to my Edina […]

by Steve Timmer

Another bridge to the past

February 19, 2016

Shawn Otto published a perceptive piece in the Huffington Post yesterday, February 18th. It’s about how a campaign needs a forward-looking story to capture voters’ attention and support. I have heard Professor David Schultz make the same point in several presentations, including one he made at Drinking Liberally a few years ago. Elections are, after all, […]

by Steve Timmer

LeftMN endorses Bernie Sanders for President

February 14, 2016

LeftMN is mostly devoted to state-level politics in Minnesota, and we ordinarily aren’t concerned with nomination contests for the office of President of the United States. However, with the Minnesota precinct caucuses coming up on March 1st, and because the LeftMN editorial board does have an opinion in the matter, we’re going to express it. [This endorsement […]

by Steve Timmer

Clinton Speaking Fees > Twice the Military Death Benefit

February 12, 2016

Another in the money gets what money wants series

by Jeff Wilfahrt

I’m gonna stick with Ron . . .

February 11, 2016

A few days ago, I reported on my conversations with Heather Edelson and Matt Samuel, each of whom is seeking the DFL endorsement in House District 49A, a seat that is currently held by Ron Erhardt, a two-term DFLer, but a much longer term legislator. I said that I was going to stick with Rep. […]

by Steve Timmer

Heather and Matt

February 8, 2016

But I’m gonna stick with Ron . . .

by Steve Timmer
Rebecca Otto

Disappearing the Auditor

February 7, 2016

A long time ago — not that long, really, now that I think about it — an effort was mounted to make a statewide elected official sleep with the fishes. You might say that it was a situation analogous to the one that State Auditor Rebecca Otto finds herself in at the moment. You might say that, […]

by Steve Timmer

Eric’s “gotcha” question on Almanac

February 6, 2016

On Friday evening, February 5th, State Auditor Rebecca Otto was interviewed at the top of the Almanac program on TPT to discuss her just-filed lawsuit, filed in Ramsey County, to re-establish her authority to audit counties — which are sometimes prone to forget that they are inferior units of government, existing solely at the sufferance of the […]

by Steve Timmer

Otto v. Wright County

February 5, 2016

Why the Legislature and the counties should lose

by David Schultz