Minnesota may have a staggeringly-large $17.6 billion budget surplus this year, but as the first week of the 2023 legislative session draws to a close, the biggest and most controversial issue in front...

Gov. Tim Walz speaking during his inauguration ceremony on Monday. MinnPost photo by Tom Olmscheid DFL Gov. Tim Walz was sworn in for a second term on Monday, and the Minnesota Legislature will hold...

The state agency that is the closest thing to a regulator of newly legal hemp-based edibles wants out of the business. The state Board of Pharmacy, a small agency not often in the news, repeated...

The Minnesota revenue surplus is now $17.6 billion. That’s a lot for a state that spends about $2.16 billion a month and sets up Gov. Tim Walz and the DFL-controlled Legislature to increase spending...

In Gov. Tim Walz’s first term, DFLers in Minnesota produced lots of official reports on climate change and had plenty of grand plans meant to address the issue. But nearly all of those proposals stalled...

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote about the government deriving its powers from the consent of the governed. We call it voting, and those of us adults who are governed have our...

The architects behind a now-controversial bill that legalizes the sale in Minnesota of intoxicating compounds found in hemp plants weren’t certain Tuesday whether to admit that the bill was done mostly...

The unusual dynamics of the 2022 session of the Minnesota Legislature created the circumstances for its partial collapse Sunday evening when the House and Senate ended the regular session without passing...

Gov. Tim Walz, center, speaking at Monday's press conference, with House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler, left, and Senate Majority Leader Jeremy Miller, right. MinnPost photo by Peter Callaghan Minnesota...

Steve Cwodzinski (pronounced Swodzinski) has long been a man in love. For 33 years, he loved teaching history and government to Eden Prairie High School students. In 2018 and again in 2020, the Eden...

Light rail track shown in the Highway 62 LRT tunnel. Source: Metropolitan Council Of all the questions Met Council Chair Charlie Zelle received during his second public grilling over the massive cost...

Feb. 18, 2022 It turns out, $73 billion has a way of changing the way you look at things. State Sen. Michelle Benson During a hearing on Feb. 17 on federal COVID-19 relief funds received by the...