State Representative David Bly, MN District 25B

Starting November 24th and continuing through the holiday season, gift cards loaded with amounts ranging from $10 to $50 will randomly appear in the “Critter Caches” at Minnesota state parks and recreation areas statewide. Critter Caches are camouflaged containers hidden in every Minnesota state park and recreation area as part of the Geocaching Wildlife Safari. [...]

It begins with the rain and the sound of tapping
Feet of a thousand squirrels over the rooftop
A thunderclap and the swirled dry grass
On either side the lime stone cliffs guard the waterway
And the brown river winds its way south – we are travelers
Come together in the mystery of coincidence
Each with a story – we [...]

I received an interesting report from the Washington, D.C. office of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. In the 2009 edition of Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, it was found that
One-fifth earn under $23,000 a year. They pay on average 9.2% of their income in [...]

I was honored to be presented with an award this week at the Epic Enterprise banquet for my support for Minnesotans with disabilities and the workers who take care of them. I received a plaque for “dedicated service and advocacy for people with developmental disabilities.”
The group specifically recognized one of my speeches [...]

Last Thursday at the November 12th Board Meeting of the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society, I spoke on the subject of Feed In Tariff legislation. The idea of FIT/REP is to incentivize renewable energy investments by setting a fixed price over a specified contract period (e.g, 20 years) for selling energy back to the grid. [...]