Matt Dean

By Gary Gross

Conservative Examiner.com

It’s understatement to say that last night’s Reform 2.0 meeting in St. Cloud was mostly about private citizens telling legislators that government is too imposing on private citizens.

For instance, Steve Rohlf, the former Zoning Administrator & Building Official for Elk River for 21 years, said that he’s been “working in the private sector doing commercial building and land development for a person who owns several car dealerships” as well as “other commercial interests.” Read the rest of this entry »

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3200ih.pdf

Washington, DC, September 16, 2011 –– The Aspen Institute has announced the selection of 24 of America’s leading public officials to participate in the Institute’s bipartisan Aspen-Rodel Fellowship program. The fellowship program, now in its seventh year, is focused on transcending political partisanship and focusing attention on over-arching questions of leadership and governance. Read the rest of this entry »

Getting good ideas from Crookston for Reform 2.0

By Natalie J. Ostgaard, City Editor

Crookston Daily Times

Ideas were flowing endlessly the back room of RBJ’s Restaurant Thursday afternoon as about 40 area government and school officials, business owners and other local leaders from as far as Roseau gathered for a “Reform 2.0” session sponsored by the Minnesota House Republicans. The initiative, launched in August, aims to collect thoughts and suggestions from constituents across the state in advance of the next session.
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from National Review Online

This handy rule of thumb forecasts a big win for the GOP in November.

With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, prognosticators are all over the map on how many seats the GOP will gain. Everyone has his own proprietary model, but I’m going to let you in on the simple model that has proven to work with great regularity in recent years — the 70 percent solution. Read the rest of this entry »