Spending & Taxes
Could Medicaid fraud cost Minnesota federal dollars?
On December 5, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Dr. Oz, sent a letter to Governor Tim Walz, warning that failure to address fraud could cost Minnesota federal dollars. In the letter, CMS has outlined certain…
Walz wants more Somali migrants
And he just can’t get enough. Earlier this week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz headlined a campaign…
Updating ScandalTracker 2025
I’m working to update ScandalTrackerTM, which has not been refreshed since July. The update remains…
How do we get the $billion fraud estimate?
I break down the $1 billion Minnesota fraud estimate and where it comes from. Local reporter Lou…
Fraud? What fraud?
From today’s Star Tribune, Trump claims Minnesota lost billions to fraud. The evidence to date…
The Somali factor
Former Star Tribune editor Patricia Lopez wrote on Bloomberg November 26, under the headline, We can stop fraud in Minnesota without attacking Somalis In a perfect world, Lopez is absolutely correct. She writes (non-paywall version here) that, It is…
DFL remains in denial about Minnesota’s runaway…
Yesterday, we learned that Minnesota’s state government was forecast to run a budget surplus for the…
Wall Street Journal discovers Minnesota fraud
Three (3) items published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal touch on different aspects of the…
short-term surplus hides a persistent and growing…
Earlier today, Minnesota Management (MMB) released the November 2025 budget forecast. Some good…
Five takeaways from the budget forecast
Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) released the budget forecast Thursday showing a $2.4 billion…
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