Spending & Taxes
State government is squeezing school budgets and pushing up property taxes with unfunded mandates
Back in 2023, the “historic” DFL trifecta enacted a K-12 education bill which included a $2.2 billion hike in spending on schools. The bill indexed the per pupil funding formula to the rate of inflation in future years — capped at 3% — with a boost…
Two charged in Anoka Co. welfare fraud
From Fox-9, Anoka County couple charged in $800K public benefits fraud probe. The exact dollar…
Before $11 million fraud trial, defendant flees country
Lou Raguse of KARE-11 has the report that Abdirashid Ismail Said, accused of an $11 million Medicaid…
How to control property taxes and ease affordability…
This week I’ve looked at how property tax hikes are making life less affordable for Minnesotans and…
Keith Ellison campaign donor pleads guilty in food…
Gandi Yusuf Mohamed pled guilty in the Feeding Our Future case this morning at the federal…
Feeding Our Future, sentence #10, over three years
Abdullahe Nur Jesow was sentenced to 43 months in federal prison, becoming just the tenth defendant sentenced in the case, to date. That works out to 3 years and seven months. He was also ordered to forfeit $866,000. Jesow, now age 65, is defendant…
Should Minnesota expand free college?
On Tuesday afternoon, the Senate Higher Education Committee heard SF 3754 and SF 4692 — two bills…
The spending is the problem
Yesterday, I explained the complex process by which those property tax payments which hammer…
sentence #9, two years probation
Bekam Merdassa was the very first Feeding Our Future defendant to plead guilty in the case, way back…
How Minnesota’s property taxes make life less…
How property tax hikes squeeze affordability Property taxes are a large and growing source of…
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