Spending & Taxes
short-term surplus hides a persistent and growing structural deficit
Earlier today, Minnesota Management (MMB) released the November 2025 budget forecast. Some good news, MMB forecasts a $2.5 billion surplus for the 2026-27 biennium. This is up from the $1.9 billion estimated at the end of the 2025 legislative…
Five takeaways from the budget forecast
Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) released the budget forecast Thursday showing a $2.4 billion…
Economic slowdown that hasn’t happened cannot explain…
Back in March, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) released its February Budget and Economic…
surplus in 2026-27, deficit in 2028-29
Later today, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) is due to release its November forecast for the…
The fraud next time
That didn’t take long. The employee whistleblower Twitter (X) account @Minnesota_DHS has been…
Minnesota’s epidemic of fraud makes national news
Then… In August 1973, the cover of TIME magazine featured a man in a plaid shirt standing in a boat in the middle of a lake holding up a fish. That man was Wendell Anderson, governor of Minnesota, and the headline ran: “The Good Life in Minnesota.”…
State withholds records on fraud cases
Your government at work. From the Minnesota Star Tribune Minnesota can release records on Medicaid…
Jury nullification
From KARE-11, Hennepin County Judge tosses out jury’s guilty verdict in $7.2 million home healthcare…
Tim Walz’s whopper legal bill wins 2025 Golden Turkey
The winner of the 2025 Golden Turkey Award is Governor Walz’s $430,000 Whopper Legal Bill! The first…
Fraud? What Fraud?
Democrats and local media (but I repeat myself) are in denial about the scale of fraud in Minnesota.…
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