State Representative David Bly, District 25B

OUR STATE HAS REAL NEEDS

An Education Update

BIG STEP FORWARD FOR MN STEEL MILL PROJECT

Well at least our temperatures got a little warmer this weekend.  I ended my week visiting the annual Art a la Carte celebration, which included an interesting display of edible art, pottery making and a peace sculpture.  I took a pass this year on the "make your own fish print t-shirt" which involves making a […]

My cousin once told me about a neighbor he had who let the paint fall off the house and never mowed his lawn and wouldn’t fix anything if it broke.
 
Worse yet, this fellow was loaded with money and just didn’t care what his home did to everyone else’s property value.
It’s kind of like our […]

Under the House Property tax bill 90% of Homeowners will qualify for a reduction in their property taxes.
Over the past five years, property taxes in Minnesota have increased $1.7 billion.  Absent action from the legislature, we are poised to see further increases in property taxes – approximately a 9 percent increase in Scott County for […]

Almost all of the committees have finished up their work in the house and we will begin hearing omnibus bills on the floor this week.  I am told we will be on the floor everyday this week including Saturday.
 
 
AGRICULTURE, RURAL ECONOMIES AND VETERANS 
The Omnibus Agriculture, Rural Economies, Veterans and Military Affairs Finance Bill passed […]

The Road to Opportunity Act

I went ‘back to school’ for a few hours and talked with students in Kevin Dahle’s civics classes and one of Ron Nuebel’s Sr. Soc. classes.  They shared with me some of their thoughts about what we in the legislature should be focusing on.  I shared with them my voter survey, which you can download […]