Chris Coleman talks about transportation at DL

May 10, 2017

St. Paul’s Mayor Chris Coleman was the guest at Drinking Liberally on April 27th. He mostly came to talk about being a candidate for governor in 2018, but he talked about the current legislative session, too. Here are a few of his remarks about transportation.

by Steve Timmer

Rep. Davids weeps

June 6, 2016

He liked being chair of the House Tax Committee

by Steve Timmer

Get thee to Crown, Kurt, saith the governor

May 24, 2016

And so saith we all

by Steve Timmer

“It’s a giant money suckhole”

March 19, 2016

Probing the IRRRB

by Steve Timmer

Salaries are back in the news!

July 10, 2015

Please see the update below . . . During the one day window that was given to him, Mark Dayton raised the salaries of his commissioners. You will remember that he raised them this spring, pursuant to authority given him by the Legislature, and Speaker Kurt Daudt cried piteously at the outrage, and Majority Leader […]

by Steve Timmer

Working hard for the money

March 23, 2015

Although it has kind of died down now, there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth at the Legislature over the salary increases given by Governor Mark Dayton to his Commissioners, first by the House Republicans and their leader, Speaker Kurt Daudt, followed shortly thereafter by DFL Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, who persuaded […]

by Steve Timmer

Branden Petersen learns his lesson

March 4, 2014

And learns it very well

by Steve Timmer

Driver’s licenses for all

January 2, 2014

Maybe this year

by Steve Timmer

Wherein JLew furnishes an argument for abortion rights

July 21, 2013

Accidentally, of course

by Steve Timmer

A Brief History of Ideology in the Minnesota Legislature

June 6, 2013

Last week I took a look at a new metric that attempts to measure the relative Ideology of state Legislatures and Legislators. Called “np_score” and developed by Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty (their website is at Measuring American Legislatures) the metric ranges from roughly -2 (very liberal) to +2 (very conservative). This metric is derived […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Gay Marriage Prognosticating, House Edition

May 7, 2013

On Thursday the Minnesota House is expected to vote on HF 1054, the Gay Marriage bill. According to Tom Bakk, the Senate will follow shortly after: House DFL leaders plan to bring a bill to legalize gay marriage to the full floor on Thursday, expressing confidence that they have secured votes to pass the proposal […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Katherine Kersten throws in the towel!

May 5, 2013

Implicitly recognizing the inevitability of marriage equality in Minnesota

by Steve Timmer