Guys, keep your grubby mitts out of Minnesota’s schools

January 16, 2020

First of all, the fact that Alan Page was a very great football player doesn’t give him standing on this. The proposed amendment would remove the requirement for a “uniform” system of public education from the state constitution. This strategy paves the way for taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools, which may discriminate against certain students. […]

by Dan Burns

Bakk announces session priorities

January 10, 2013

Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk (DFL-Cook) announced the Senate DFL’s opening bills of the 2013 session at a Capitol press conference Thursday morning. The first four bills tackle a diverse array of subjects, including a health care exchange, indexing the minimum wage to inflation, all day kindergarten in Minnesota schools, and limiting the power of […]

by Aaron Klemz

Mendacious in battle; mendacious in defeat

November 7, 2012

Dan McGrath tries the grapes; finds them sour

by Steve Timmer