State Representative David Bly, MN District 25B

“Ideas should be based on facts.” I could not agree more. A recent letter writer took me to task for suggesting that our country was founded on principles of equality. He accuses me of misrepresenting history and claims my statement that “This country was formed in resistance to rule by a privileged elite, [...]

“Where are we headed?” That is the most important question I rhetorically asked voters attending the Community issues forum at Carleton College’s AGH on Thursday night (see Ray’s blog). The biggest issue facing us in the coming legislative session is, once again, a large looming deficit. The State economist’s rosiest prediction [...]

It may well have been planning too much to host a family reunion in the midst of my hectic campaign, but I agreed to host it three years ago and I did not want to disappoint my cousins. So last week, I spent what ever time I could spare and then some visiting with [...]

Ray Cox responded to my economic blog in a roundabout way, saying he is, “very optimistic about the national economy and our state economy as well. Some folks are out there with the same old “doom and gloom” rhetoric but I don’t buy into that message at all….in fact, it is a very pessimistic, [...]

Robert Reich recently presented an audio essay on NPR’s Marketplace in which he talked about dividing up the economic pie. “The American Economic Pie is growing,” he says, “at a solid pace, the odd thing is how it is sliced — a portion going to profits and a portion going to wages. The wage slice [...]