State Representative David Bly, District 25B

We’ve been hearing a lot about health care lately, and with good reason. Just the other day, driving home from work I heard a disturbing story about a pharmaceutical company that has a drug that can cure several types of cancer. What does it cost, you might ask? The company argues it can charge what […]

In a discussion of Education funding on his blog, Rep. Cox finds Senator Mark Dayton’s factual remarks about under funding public schools ‘partisan’ and the remarks made by Commissioner Seagren to be ‘factual’ and not ‘partisan’. I found her remarks as quoted by Cox very misleading as they implied that funding allocated was more than […]

February 2nd I attended an excellent presentation by Mary Cecconi, Executive Director of Parents United for Public Schools called “School Funding 101: How Did We Get Here?” It offered an explanation of the current system for funding Minnesota schools and why it is failing us. This brings me back to the beginning of my previous […]

President Bush came to Minnesota earlier this month to promote one of his initiatives. The problem is that although they have catchy titles, they are often doomed from the start because of their myopic view of things in general.
Take for instance ‘No child left behind,’ or ‘Tax cuts’ (for the rich), or the new Medicare […]