HeyJaredMatthew Blake
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What makes Demuth run: The unlikely rise of a category-defying politician (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: This is the first of two stories on Lisa Demuth and her rise to candidacy for governor. Lisa Demuth and I sit at school-style desks designed for kindergartners. “Yeah, you can have them,” she says with a smile to a child eyeing the bucket of crayons in front of her. It is another day of gross heat at the Minnesota State Fair. We are stationed in a kids drawing area, between the Lisa Demuth for Governor booth – with its requisite prize wheel, fans and flyers – and an exhibit hawkin
Republicans are deserting League of Women Voters candidate forums (opens the original)
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This post comes from our Capitol Conversations newsletter. Sign up here to get Matthew Blake’s takes on the latest Minnesota state government news, delivered to your inbox Thursday mornings. At a capacity meeting room in the Moorhead Public Library Tuesday night, state Sen. Rob Kupec, DFL-Moorhead, and his Republican challenger Austin Peterson were put to the test. Kupec and Peterson each answered on the spot 29 different questions posed by audience members, each involving a substantive issue. H
Republicans are deserting League of Women Voters candidate forums (opens the original)
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This post comes from our Capitol Conversations newsletter. Sign up here to get Matthew Blake’s takes on the latest Minnesota state government news, delivered to your inbox Thursday mornings. At a capacity meeting room in the Moorhead Public Library Tuesday night, state Sen. Rob Kupec, DFL-Moorhead, and his Republican challenger Austin Peterson were put to the test. Kupec and Peterson each answered on the spot 29 different questions posed by audience members, each involving a substantive issue. H
Crime in Minnesota is dropping and we don’t know why (opens the original)
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This post comes from our Capitol Conversations newsletter. Sign up here to get Matthew Blake’s takes on the latest Minnesota state government news, delivered to your inbox Thursday mornings. The last race for Minnesota attorney general focused on violent crime. In 2022, Republican challenger Jim Schultz accused DFL incumbent Keith Ellison of a “crazy anti-police ideology” and policies “that led to an increase in crime in at-risk communities.” A New York Times article from four years ago claimed
Property taxpayers in Minnesota are suffering from a TIF plague (opens the original)
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Edina Mayor James Hovland recently wrote a commentary published in the Minnesota Star Tribune titled, “Minnesota needs more housing. How do we get there?” From the prospective of a taxpayer, his argument is flawed. He wrote, “… let the state (Minnesota) also strengthen tools such as tax increment financing …” Tax increment financing (TIF) is a wonderful tool if you are a developer or if you are an elected official and you want to discretely raise local property taxes in order to transfer wealth
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