David Bly

On Tuesday, June 23, Suzannah and Bob Ciernia are hosting a fundraiser/campaign event on my behalf at their home from 6:30 to 8:00 PM for my campaign supporters. Ciernia’s live at 41 Fareway Drive in Northfield, just off 7th Street. Hope you can make it.

On Thursday, June 25 the Minnesota High Tech Association is putting together an event that will focus on opportunities for companies as a result of the economic stimulus legislation. Economic Stimulus Package – Federal & State Technology Opportunities: How to Get Your Fair Share? will provide the most current analysis of the American Recovery and […]

Before we adjourned on Monday, the 2009 Legislative Session sent Governor Pawlenty another balanced budget. The bill was the result of painstaking work, significant compromise and months of public input. If the governor signs the bill, the $6.4 billion budget shortfall will be addressed. The details are as follows: nearly $2 billion in budget cuts […]

We are at the home stretch in the 2009 legislative session and with two days left, the end result is still very much up in the air. By Wednesday of this week, the Legislature finalized and sent to the Governor all major budget bills to stabilize our budget. In putting our budget together, we spent […]

I supported a bill which was passed on April 29th accepting and directing $196.75 million from the federal stimulus program. The bill identified the following goals: (1) stimulus funding be allocated to activities that best achieve job creation and retention; (2) improved energy efficiency and increased renewable energy production; (3) coordinate and leverage other funding […]

I received the following from Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher today: Many of you are aware that by mid-week approximately 100 confirmed human cases of the influenza A(H1N1) virus infections have been identified in the United States. One case has now been identified in Cold Springs, MN. This situation is highly fluid as details from many […]