This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “We have been informed that charitable hands have smoothed the later path of Dred and his Harriet, so that a freedom so tardily… Read more »
Posts By: Minnesota Environmental Partnership
Let the negotiations begin!
The House and Senate each passed budget resolutions last week that support the priorities of President’s Obama’s budget, but it is important that the final resolution to come out of… Read more »
Capitol Update for April 3, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “No mortal man could have surmised what was afterward learned, but the Confederate Naval officers intended to destroy the Minnesota…” – Confederate Military… Read more »
Capitol Update for March 27, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “To the Chippewas that sprawling series of lakes and rivers known as the Kawashaway was a land of the mystery.” – Sigurd Olson,… Read more »
Minnesotans Deserve the Clean Water in President Obama’s Budget Proposal
As the House and Senate Budget Committees act on President Obama’s budget this week, the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the budget deficit has created new pressure to reduce spending.
Capitol Update for March 20, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “I almost had heart failure before it was over.” – Charles A. Bender, May 12, 1910*
Capitol Update for March 13, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “For the American people thus to allow such calamities to habitually occur, without adopting any adequate means for their prevention causes our country… Read more »
Capitol Update for March 6, 2009
This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Quartzite”* This was the one word telegram that Tams Bixby and his group of investors received in 1894 from a gem expert in… Read more »
More on the President’s Proposed Budget
The budget proposal released by President Obama last week is a long and complicated document (140 pages, PDF). It departs significantly from how things have been done in the past… Read more »
Obama Budget a Down-payment for Great Lakes Campaign Pledge
President Obama recently announced an unprecedented investment of $475 Million in his Fiscal Year 2010 Budget to restore the Great Lakes – an effort that is key to creating jobs… Read more »