Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth said Tuesday that if elected governor in November, she will tackle Minnesota’s fraud crisis by banning transfers of public dollars to foreign countries; recouping public dollars lost to fraud; and firing all current agency heads and deputy commissioners. Firing commissioners wouldn’t be groundbreaking: Demuth would be the first Republican governor […]
If the federal government fails to extend federal subsidies that offset healthcare premiums, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, as governor, would create a state tax credit to help with those skyrocketing costs. Most Republican U.S. senators late last year blocked a Democratic bill to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially driving up healthcare premiums for millions […]
If Sen, Amy Klobuchar becomes Minnesota’s next governor, then she’ll be in the unique position of potentially appointing her own successor to the U.S. Senate. Klobuchar’s seat has been held by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party since the turn of the century. Klobuchar has won each of her four Senate campaigns by double-digit margins. It’s likely that […]
(The Center Square) – Voters in Minnesota will head to the polls Tuesday to select nominees for governor.
Minnesota voters on Tuesday will head to the polls to choose which candidates advance to the important November midterm election. On the ballot: all constitutional offices, including governor and attorney general; an open U.S. Senate seat; the highly competitive 2nd Congressional District; and all 201 legislative seats. Tuesday’s election will determine which candidates from each […]
Minnesota’s candidates for governor fielded questions on farming regulations, rising rural healthcare costs and fraud in Minnesota’s public programs Wednesday as they made their case to farmers. It was the first and last time U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the presumptive Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee for governor, got on stage with the three GOP candidates for governor: businessman […]
The low-dose THC industry that makes the popular beverages and edibles you see at liquor and convenience stores and breweries got a sliver of hope Sunday in the face of a looming federal prohibition of the key ingredient they need for their products.  Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is a candidate for governor of Minnesota, said […]
Nearly 100 Monticello residents, decked out in red shirts, crowded into City Council chambers in February — nearly doubling the average attendance — holding signs protesting future data center development. The meeting stretched for nearly three hours, as residents interrupted debate between council members, calling for a moratorium on data centers. It’s a familiar scene […]
The U.S. Forest Service lost more than 100 Minnesota employees and delayed $10 million in grant funding for wildfire mitigation in the Superior National Forest during the chaotic first year of President Trump’s second term. Democratic elected officials say those setbacks left Minnesota ill-equipped to face the fires that have burned more than 60,000 acres […]
(The Center Square) – Minnesota Democrats and Republicans gathered over the weekend for their official state party conventions, where they issued endorsements in many key races ahead of the 2026 election.
