Gov. Tim Walz has announced his budget plan for the coming biennium, a $52.4 billion budget that would raise the income tax on wealthiest Minnesotans, lower the income tax for low earners, and slap another $1 tax on cigarettes and snuff. He would create a new tax bracket for those in the top ...

Last week’s Minnesota pilot program to open up COVID-19 vaccinations to people 65 and older ran into typical rollout problems. People had to go online at noon on Tuesday to sign up for an appointment at one of nine vaccination sites throughout the state. Thousands of people tried to log in at ...

President Joe Biden has turned America’s environmental policy about face in the first days of his administration. He has ordered the nation back into the Paris Climate Agreement, after Donald Trump had pulled us out. He also revoked the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline project, a ...

Calm ceremony THUBS UP: We should all be thankful that the thousands of National Guard troops who were called to Washington for the inauguration of Joe Biden, just two weeks after a violent mob broke into the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to keep him from office, were not tested. Their presence ...

Every ten years the U.S. government takes a census of everyone in the country. The nation has been doing this a long time, and usually it follows well-established procedures. Usually by this time of year, the Census Bureau is releasing its results. Cities, counties and states around the ...

Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday. We know there are a vast number of people in this country, even in our readership, who do not consider him to have earned the honor, but he won in what courts, state legislatures and Congress have declared to be a ...