Spending & Taxes
Is Minnesota’s Paid Family and Medical Leave scheme running out of money?
We are now a little over a month into the operation of Minnesota’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) scheme. How is it going? In mid-January, CBS News reported on the first round of payments being made under the scheme. It noted that: Since…
Sending out the 168
From KTTC, Minnesota Dept. of Human Services to ramp up unannounced site visits in effort to cut…
Mass resignations from U.S. Attorney’s Office will…
In mid-January, U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, who had been leading the legal fight against fraud in…
Dr. Oz visited Griggs-Midway fraud site
Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator for the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), was in…
Lawfare-industrial complex
Taxpayer-funded lawyers sue the feds to create more demand for their product. I’m not kidding.…
Crazy local government spending is increasing property taxes and hurting affordability
Property taxes are rising across Minnesota: Why? Federal policy plays a role. So, too, does state government policy, particularly in the form of unfunded mandates. But local governments themselves must shoulder some of the blame in too many cases.…
Fraud never sleeps
Recent events may have pushed the Minnesota fraud story out of the national headlines, but the work…
No Guardian against massive fraud
Yesterday (Jan. 14), Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a new fraud prosecution. His…
$1 million Ilhan Omar earmark yanked
Lost in all of the news last week was this item involving local U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar…
Mr. Glahn goes to Washington
Your correspondent spent Wednesday in our nation’s capital. The bulk of my time on the ground…
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