Budget
PoliGraph: Zellers wrong on professor pay
Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Zellers, R- Maple Grove, may have heard from some angry professors this week....
PoliGraph: Cravaack's Medicare claim omits key details
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal includes a big change to Medicare....
PoliGraph: lawmaker's spending claim ignores key information
During a recent House Tax Committee hearing, Rep. Steve Gottwalt, R-St. Cloud, made an oft-repeated claim about Gov. Mark Dayton's budget....
PoliGraph: Peterson overreaches in budget claim
U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson says the House Agriculture Committee is taking a disproportionate hit under GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget plan....
PoliGraph: Thissen correct - cuts will cost jobs
Minnesota House Minority Leader Paul Thissen says the Republican budget plans put jobs at risk....
PoliGraph: Bachmann shutdown claim on point
Congress has until the end of the week to broker a deal to fund the government through September. If they don't, some...
PoliGraph: Rybak gets tax numbers right
Republican legislators are targeting local government aid as they attempt to erase the state's $5 billion deficit....
PoliGraph: Zellers exaggerates tax increase impact on businesses
Minnesota Republicans' biggest complaint about Gov. Mark Dayton's budget proposal can be summed up in one word: taxes....
PoliGraph: Dayton tax increase big, maybe not biggest
Gov. Mark Dayton's $37 billion budget plan has not been warmly received by Republicans. For instance, GOP House Majority Leader Matt Dean...
PoliGraph: Marquart's property tax claim based on reasonable estimates
Rep. Paul Marquart, DFL-Dilworth, may not be a household name but he recently spoke about an issue that's making headlines all...
PoliGraph: Pawlenty's spending claim too loose with numbers
This is the fourth in a series of fact checks this week reviewing former Gov. Tim Pawlenty's book - Courage to...
PoliGraph: Pawlenty claim on federal spending leaves out key information
This is the third in a series of fact checks this week reviewing former Gov. Tim Pawlenty's book - Courage to...
PoliGraph: DFL hit on Horner hard to judge
The Minnesota DFL Party is going after Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner's tax plan....
PoliGraph: Emmer right on tax claim, with some caveats
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer pledges to cut the corporate income tax if he's elected, which he argues stifles Minnesota's economy....
PoliGraph: MN Forward ad something to cry about
MN Forward, a group backing business-friendly candidates, is airing a new ad attacking Mark Dayton's tax plan....
PoliGraph: Dayton's call to cut more easily said than done
Part of Mark Dayton's revised budget plan involves dramatic reductions in how much the government spends on private sector contracts....
PoliGraph: Horner's budget claim accurate
Minnesota's next governor will face a major problem when he takes office: the deficit. For his part, Independent Tom Horner says...
PoliGraph: Emmer wrong on LGA
If Republican Tom Emmer's elected governor, he says he'll restructure the way the state parcels out money to cities to eliminate...
PoliGraph: Clark one for three
DFL State Sen. Tarryl Clark's latest challenge to her opponent Rep. Michele Bachmann goes something like this: cut your salary and...
PoliGraph: Emmer wrong on rhymes
By Catharine Richert "Origami bird. You have great long wings to fly. Why do you sit still?" The haiku imprinted on the...
PoliGraph: Dayton tax claim on the high end
By Catharine Richert To reduce the state's nearly $6 billion projected deficit, DFL candidates for governor are touting plans to cut spending...
PoliGraph: Hahn's gambling revenue estimate on the high end
By Catharine Richert Rob Hahn's plan to lower the deficit involves six new riverboat casinos on the Mississippi. "The revenue to the...
PoliGraph: Horner's budget accounting off
By Catharine Richert Gov. Tim Pawlenty and members of the state Legislature balanced the budget for this biennium, but left a problem...
PoliGraph: Pawlenty claims right and wrong on spending
By Catharine Richert Gov. Tim Pawlenty recently appeared on Minnesota Public Radio News' Midday program, where he highlighted his efforts to reduce...
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