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 […]

House Speaker Lisa Demuth won the Republican Party’s nomination for governor on Tuesday, beating President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate, Mike Lindell, as well as Kendall Qualls — the choice of GOP state convention delegates.  Demuth is the first Republican woman to be nominated for governor and the rare Republican to beat a Trump-endorsed candidate this […]

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 […]

Republican primary voters who want to know how pillow mogul Mike Lindell is spending his campaign dollars won’t have much to go on based on the final pre-primary campaign finance report, which was released Tuesday by the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board. The campaign’s last reported expense for the MyPillow CEO’s campaign was on June 30 […]