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§ 3.9224 → Where I Stand: We Legalized Cannabis and Kept Making the Same Traffic Stops. Fix the Enforcement, Not Just the Law. , If You Believe in States' Rights, You Should Understand the Oldest and Strongest Sovereignty in Minnesota — the Eleven Nations Within It. § 8.31 → Minnesota's Immigrants Are 8.4% of the People and 10.8% of the Workforce. Here's the Rest of the Math. , You Think You Spend $86 a Month on Subscriptions. It's $219. Minnesota Just Made It Legal to Get Out. § 13.69 → Want the Flock Cameras to Stop Knowing Where You Go? Put Your Car in a Trust. Of Course, Only People Who Can Afford a Lawyer Get to Do That. § 13.824 → Want the Flock Cameras to Stop Knowing Where You Go? Put Your Car in a Trust. Of Course, Only People Who Can Afford a Lawyer Get to Do That. , A Cop in Texas Searched 83,000 Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Had an Abortion. Some of Them Were in Minnesota's Suburbs. § 16A.152 → Minnesota Keeps Two Sets of Books. Only One of Them Has to Balance. § 16D.04 → Minnesota Stopped Taking People's Licenses Over Unpaid Fines. It Still Adds $75 to Every Conviction — Even a Petty Ticket. § 16D.11 → Minnesota Stopped Taking People's Licenses Over Unpaid Fines. It Still Adds $75 to Every Conviction — Even a Petty Ticket. § 47.60 → Even Donald Trump Says Credit Card Rates Are a Scam. On That, He's Right — and the Fine Print Makes Sure You Can't Do Anything About It. , A Payday Loan in Minnesota Can't Legally Cost More Than 50% a Year — and the State Just Slammed the Door on the 'Rent-a-Bank' Trick Lenders Used to Dodge the Cap. § 47.603 → A Payday Loan in Minnesota Can't Legally Cost More Than 50% a Year — and the State Just Slammed the Door on the 'Rent-a-Bank' Trick Lenders Used to Dodge the Cap. § 53B.75 → Minnesota Seniors Lost $111 Million to Fraud Last Year — Double the Year Before § 58B.02 → You Don't Get to Choose the Company That Handles Your Student Loans. Minnesota Now Makes Them Get a License to Do It. § 58B.03 → You Don't Get to Choose the Company That Handles Your Student Loans. Minnesota Now Makes Them Get a License to Do It. § 62J.85 → Minnesota Built a Board With the Power to Say a Drug Costs Too Much — and Cap What Gets Paid for It. The Drug Industry Is Fighting Boards Like It Everywhere. § 62J.87 → Minnesota Built a Board With the Power to Say a Drug Costs Too Much — and Cap What Gets Paid for It. The Drug Industry Is Fighting Boards Like It Everywhere. § 62J.90 → Minnesota Built a Board With the Power to Say a Drug Costs Too Much — and Cap What Gets Paid for It. The Drug Industry Is Fighting Boards Like It Everywhere. § 62J.91 → Minnesota Built a Board With the Power to Say a Drug Costs Too Much — and Cap What Gets Paid for It. The Drug Industry Is Fighting Boards Like It Everywhere. § 62J.95 → Minnesota Built a Board With the Power to Say a Drug Costs Too Much — and Cap What Gets Paid for It. The Drug Industry Is Fighting Boards Like It Everywhere. § 62J.807 → A Nurses' Union Bought $2.6 Million of Hospital Debt for $28,000. That's What Your Medical Bill Is Actually Worth. § 62M.07 → Minnesota Gives You a Right to Sue Your Roofer. It Gives You Almost Nothing Against Your Insurer. § 62M.09 → Minnesota Gives You a Right to Sue Your Roofer. It Gives You Almost Nothing Against Your Insurer. § 62Q.73 → Minnesota Gives You a Right to Sue Your Roofer. It Gives You Almost Nothing Against Your Insurer. § 62U.04 → Where I Stand: Minnesota Is One of the Biggest Health-Care Buyers in the State. It Should Stop Acting Like a Helpless Patient. § 72A.201 → Minnesota Gives You a Right to Sue Your Roofer. It Gives You Almost Nothing Against Your Insurer. § 116.943 → 3M Made 'Forever Chemicals' in Minnesota and Paid Us $850 Million. The State's Own Books Already Show It Won't Be Enough. § 120B.12 → Where I Stand: Half Our Kids Can't Read at Grade Level. Fund What Teaches Them To — and Let Families Walk Toward It. § 120B.118 → Where I Stand: Half Our Kids Can't Read at Grade Level. Fund What Teaches Them To — and Let Families Walk Toward It. § 120B.123 → Half of Minnesota's Kids Can't Read at Grade Level. Here's What the Data Says About Fixing It. § 124D.03 → Where I Stand: Half Our Kids Can't Read at Grade Level. Fund What Teaches Them To — and Let Families Walk Toward It. § 134A.09 → Minnesota Stopped Taking People's Licenses Over Unpaid Fines. It Still Adds $75 to Every Conviction — Even a Petty Ticket. § 136F.10 → The University of Minnesota Is Not the Largest Research University in the Country. It Is Twenty-First — and Twenty-First, Plus Fifty-Four College Campuses in Towns Nobody Else Is Bidding For, Is a Better Hand Than the Story We Keep Telling Ourselves § 144.555 → Who Decides If Your Hospital Survives? Minnesota's Consolidation Wave, By the Numbers , Nobody Is Running for County Attorney in Red Lake County. No Lawyer Lives There. § 144.589 → A Nurses' Union Bought $2.6 Million of Hospital Debt for $28,000. That's What Your Medical Bill Is Actually Worth. § 145.409 → Where I Stand: The Right Is Settled in Minnesota. If You Actually Want Fewer Abortions, Make It Affordable to Say Yes to a Child. § 145D.01 → When Two Hospital Systems Want to Merge in Minnesota, the Attorney General Now Gets to Look Under the Hood First. Here's the Job I'm Running For. § 145D.02 → When Two Hospital Systems Want to Merge in Minnesota, the Attorney General Now Gets to Look Under the Hood First. Here's the Job I'm Running For. § 151.74 → A 26-Year-Old Died Rationing Insulin. Minnesota Passed a Law Making It Free in an Emergency — and the Drug Companies Sued, Claiming Their Property Was Being Taken. § 168.346 → Want the Flock Cameras to Stop Knowing Where You Go? Put Your Car in a Trust. Of Course, Only People Who Can Afford a Lawyer Get to Do That. § 169A.36 → Where I Stand: We Legalized Cannabis and Kept Making the Same Traffic Stops. Fix the Enforcement, Not Just the Law. , Minnesota Legalized Cannabis. Then Charged 3,500 People Under a Law Almost Nobody Was Told About. § 171.16 → Minnesota Stopped Taking People's Licenses Over Unpaid Fines. It Still Adds $75 to Every Conviction — Even a Petty Ticket. § 171.18 → Minnesota Stopped Taking People's Licenses Over Unpaid Fines. It Still Adds $75 to Every Conviction — Even a Petty Ticket. § 181.03 → Minnesota Made Wage Theft a Felony in 2019. Prosecutors Have Charged It Twice. § 181.165 → Minnesota Made Wage Theft a Felony in 2019. Prosecutors Have Charged It Twice. § 181.173 → Since January 2025, a Minnesota Job Ad Has to Tell You What It Pays. It Sounds Small. It Quietly Rebalances Every Negotiation. § 181.211 → Minnesota Has Lost a Third of Its Nursing Home Beds. The Age Wave Arrives in Four Years. § 181.212 → Minnesota Has Lost a Third of Its Nursing Home Beds. The Age Wave Arrives in Four Years. § 181.531 → Your Boss Can No Longer Force You Into a Meeting About Politics or Religion — Including the Mandatory Anti-Union Meeting. Minnesota Banned the 'Captive Audience. § 181.723 → Call a Worker an 'Independent Contractor' and You Can Skip Their Overtime, Their Workers' Comp, and Their Taxes. Minnesota Just Made That a Lot More Expensive to Do. § 181.988 → If You Signed a Non-Compete in Minnesota, It's Almost Certainly Void. Most Workers Have No Idea. § 181.9445 → Since 2024, Every Worker in Minnesota Earns Paid Sick Time. Before That, Nearly a Million Had None. § 181.9446 → Since 2024, Every Worker in Minnesota Earns Paid Sick Time. Before That, Nearly a Million Had None. § 181C.02 → Uber and Lyft Threatened to Leave Minnesota. Instead, the State Set a Pay Floor for Drivers — $1.28 a Mile and 31 Cents a Minute — and They Stayed. § 181C.03 → Uber and Lyft Threatened to Leave Minnesota. Instead, the State Set a Pay Floor for Drivers — $1.28 a Mile and 31 Cents a Minute — and They Stayed. § 182.677 → The People Who Pack Your Orders and Cut Your Meat Are Getting Hurt at Brutal Rates. Minnesota Now Requires Employers to Engineer the Injuries Out. § 201.014 → You Renewed Your Driver's License. In Minnesota, You Probably Just Registered to Vote — Unless You Chose Not To. , In Minnesota, You Get Your Vote Back the Day You Walk Out of Prison — Not Years Later. The Court Let the Law Stand, but Left the Big Question Unanswered. § 201.161 → You Renewed Your Driver's License. In Minnesota, You Probably Just Registered to Vote — Unless You Chose Not To. § 216B.1691 → Where I Stand: A Centralized Power Grid Is a Target. A Distributed One Is a Defense. Home Power Production Is National Security. , Minnesota's Law Requires 100% Carbon-Free Power by 2040. The Same Law Has an Off-Ramp Most People Have Never Heard Of. , Your Electric Bill, the Data-Center Boom, and Who Pays for What § 216C.436 → That '0% Solar Financing' Isn't Free. There's a Fee of Up to 50% Hidden in the Loan — and You'll Never See It on the Paperwork. § 237.012 → Nobody Is Running for County Attorney in Red Lake County. No Lawyer Lives There. § 244.09 → Who Gets Sentenced in Minnesota: A Black Adult Is Six Times as Likely as a White Adult to Be Sentenced for a Felony. The Judge Is Not Where That Happens. § 256.042 → Minnesota Is Getting $633 Million From the Opioid Settlements. Some of It Bought Police K-9s. Here's the Ledger. § 268B.04 → In January, Minnesota Starts Paying People to Take Family and Medical Leave. Here's What's Actually Coming. § 268B.06 → In January, Minnesota Starts Paying People to Take Family and Medical Leave. Here's What's Actually Coming. § 268B.10 → In January, Minnesota Starts Paying People to Take Family and Medical Leave. Here's What's Actually Coming. § 268B.11 → In January, Minnesota Starts Paying People to Take Family and Medical Leave. Here's What's Actually Coming. § 268B.14 → In January, Minnesota Starts Paying People to Take Family and Medical Leave. Here's What's Actually Coming. § 270A.03 → Minnesota Stopped Taking People's Licenses Over Unpaid Fines. It Still Adds $75 to Every Conviction — Even a Petty Ticket. § 275.70 → Why Your Property Taxes Keep Jumping — and Where the Money Actually Goes § 297E.02 → Minnesotans Wagered $4.9 Billion on Pull-Tabs Last Year. The Charities Kept 20 Cents on the Dollar. The State Kept More Than They Did. § 309.715 → Who Decides If Your Hospital Survives? Minnesota's Consolidation Wave, By the Numbers § 325D.44 → The $650 Tax You Never Voted For § 325E.031 → Minnesota's Immigrants Are 8.4% of the People and 10.8% of the Workforce. Here's the Rest of the Math. § 325E.66 → Minnesota Gives You a Right to Sue Your Roofer. It Gives You Almost Nothing Against Your Insurer. § 325E.72 → You Bought It. You Own It. Minnesota Says You — or Anyone You Choose — Can Fix It. § 325G.07 → That '0% Solar Financing' Isn't Free. There's a Fee of Up to 50% Hidden in the Loan — and You'll Never See It on the Paperwork. § 325G.08 → That '0% Solar Financing' Isn't Free. There's a Fee of Up to 50% Hidden in the Loan — and You'll Never See It on the Paperwork. § 325G.11 → That '0% Solar Financing' Isn't Free. There's a Fee of Up to 50% Hidden in the Loan — and You'll Never See It on the Paperwork. § 325G.29 → Nobody Reads the Contract. The Law Pretends You Did. Everyone Knows It's a Joke. § 325G.31 → Nobody Reads the Contract. The Law Pretends You Did. Everyone Knows It's a Joke. § 325G.35 → Nobody Reads the Contract. The Law Pretends You Did. Everyone Knows It's a Joke. § 325G.56 → Nobody Reads the Contract. The Law Pretends You Did. Everyone Knows It's a Joke. , You Think You Spend $86 a Month on Subscriptions. It's $219. Minnesota Just Made It Legal to Get Out. § 325G.57 → You Think You Spend $86 a Month on Subscriptions. It's $219. Minnesota Just Made It Legal to Get Out. § 325G.58 → You Think You Spend $86 a Month on Subscriptions. It's $219. Minnesota Just Made It Legal to Get Out. § 325G.60 → You Think You Spend $86 a Month on Subscriptions. It's $219. Minnesota Just Made It Legal to Get Out. § 325G.61 → You Think You Spend $86 a Month on Subscriptions. It's $219. Minnesota Just Made It Legal to Get Out. § 325G.62 → You Think You Spend $86 a Month on Subscriptions. It's $219. Minnesota Just Made It Legal to Get Out. § 325G.63 → You Think You Spend $86 a Month on Subscriptions. It's $219. Minnesota Just Made It Legal to Get Out. § 325M.10 → Where I Stand: If You Build a Product to Hook a Twelve-Year-Old, You Owe That Twelve-Year-Old a Duty — and Minnesota Should Enforce It , Minnesota Passed One of America's Strongest Privacy Laws. In Its First Year, We Can't Find a Single Enforcement Action. , To Scan Your Face, Target Needs Your Consent. The Police Need Nothing. , A Cop in Texas Searched 83,000 Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Had an Abortion. Some of Them Were in Minnesota's Suburbs. , There Are Companies That Know You're Depressed, Diabetic, and Behind on Your Bills — and Sell It for 12 Cents. Minnesota Can't Make Them Stop. § 325M.11 → To Scan Your Face, Target Needs Your Consent. The Police Need Nothing. , Minnesota Already Wrote the Hardest Sentence in American AI Law. The Bill That Would Have Finished the Job Died in Committee, and the Word That Killed It Was Voluntary. § 325M.12 → Minnesota Passed One of America's Strongest Privacy Laws. In Its First Year, We Can't Find a Single Enforcement Action. , To Scan Your Face, Target Needs Your Consent. The Police Need Nothing. , A Cop in Texas Searched 83,000 Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Had an Abortion. Some of Them Were in Minnesota's Suburbs. , Minnesota Already Wrote the Hardest Sentence in American AI Law. The Bill That Would Have Finished the Job Died in Committee, and the Word That Killed It Was Voluntary. § 325M.14 → Minnesota Passed One of America's Strongest Privacy Laws. In Its First Year, We Can't Find a Single Enforcement Action. , A Cop in Texas Searched 83,000 Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Had an Abortion. Some of Them Were in Minnesota's Suburbs. , There Are Companies That Know You're Depressed, Diabetic, and Behind on Your Bills — and Sell It for 12 Cents. Minnesota Can't Make Them Stop. , Minnesota Already Wrote the Hardest Sentence in American AI Law. The Bill That Would Have Finished the Job Died in Committee, and the Word That Killed It Was Voluntary. § 325M.16 → Minnesota Passed One of America's Strongest Privacy Laws. In Its First Year, We Can't Find a Single Enforcement Action. , A Cop in Texas Searched 83,000 Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Had an Abortion. Some of Them Were in Minnesota's Suburbs. § 325M.18 → Minnesota Passed One of America's Strongest Privacy Laws. In Its First Year, We Can't Find a Single Enforcement Action. , Minnesota Already Wrote the Hardest Sentence in American AI Law. The Bill That Would Have Finished the Job Died in Committee, and the Word That Killed It Was Voluntary. § 325M.20 → Minnesota Passed One of America's Strongest Privacy Laws. In Its First Year, We Can't Find a Single Enforcement Action. , To Scan Your Face, Target Needs Your Consent. The Police Need Nothing. , A Cop in Texas Searched 83,000 Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Had an Abortion. Some of Them Were in Minnesota's Suburbs. , Minnesota Already Wrote the Hardest Sentence in American AI Law. The Bill That Would Have Finished the Job Died in Committee, and the Word That Killed It Was Voluntary. § 327C.015 → A Million-Dollar Buyer Can Evict a Whole Neighborhood at Once. Minnesota Gives Manufactured-Home Park Residents a Chance to Buy the Ground First. § 327C.095 → A Million-Dollar Buyer Can Evict a Whole Neighborhood at Once. Minnesota Gives Manufactured-Home Park Residents a Chance to Buy the Ground First. § 332.70 → Under the Old System, It Would Have Taken 173 Years to Clear Minnesota's Eligible Records. The New One Did 1.9 Million in About a Year. § 332C.03 → A Nurses' Union Bought $2.6 Million of Hospital Debt for $28,000. That's What Your Medical Bill Is Actually Worth. § 357.021 → Minnesota Stopped Taking People's Licenses Over Unpaid Fines. It Still Adds $75 to Every Conviction — Even a Petty Ticket. § 500.24 → In Minnesota, a Corporation Generally Can't Own a Farm. It's a Century-Old Idea Worth Defending — and It's Only as Strong as Its Enforcement. § 500.221 → In Minnesota, a Corporation Generally Can't Own a Farm. It's a Century-Old Idea Worth Defending — and It's Only as Strong as Its Enforcement. , Who Owns Minnesota? The Honest Answer Is Less Scary and More Interesting Than the Slogans. § 504B.120 → Who Owns Minnesota's Rentals? Increasingly, Someone in Another State § 510.01 → Minnesota Protected the Family Home Without Limit for 135 Years. Then One Bankrupt Doctor Changed the Law. It's Time to Change It Back. § 541.04 → Seventy Percent of Debt Lawsuits Are Won Without the Person Ever Showing Up. Then the Judgment Follows Them for a Decade. § 541.05 → Seventy Percent of Debt Lawsuits Are Won Without the Person Ever Showing Up. Then the Judgment Follows Them for a Decade. § 541.053 → Seventy Percent of Debt Lawsuits Are Won Without the Person Ever Showing Up. Then the Judgment Follows Them for a Decade. § 548.09 → Seventy Percent of Debt Lawsuits Are Won Without the Person Ever Showing Up. Then the Judgment Follows Them for a Decade. § 548.101 → Seventy Percent of Debt Lawsuits Are Won Without the Person Ever Showing Up. Then the Judgment Follows Them for a Decade. § 549.09 → Seventy Percent of Debt Lawsuits Are Won Without the Person Ever Showing Up. Then the Judgment Follows Them for a Decade. § 550.37 → Minnesota Protected the Family Home Without Limit for 135 Years. Then One Bankrupt Doctor Changed the Law. It's Time to Change It Back. , If You Go Bankrupt in Minnesota, the Law Lets You Keep a $10,000 Car and $1,500 of 'Anything Else.' It's Time to Raise the Floor. § 559.21 → He Sold the Same Houses Over and Over to Somali Families. A Jury Just Called It What It Was. § 571.922 → A Nurses' Union Bought $2.6 Million of Hospital Debt for $28,000. That's What Your Medical Bill Is Actually Worth. , The $650 Tax You Never Voted For , Seventy Percent of Debt Lawsuits Are Won Without the Person Ever Showing Up. Then the Judgment Follows Them for a Decade. , If You Go Bankrupt in Minnesota, the Law Lets You Keep a $10,000 Car and $1,500 of 'Anything Else.' It's Time to Raise the Floor. § 580.23 → He Sold the Same Houses Over and Over to Somali Families. A Jury Just Called It What It Was. § 604.18 → Minnesota Gives You a Right to Sue Your Roofer. It Gives You Almost Nothing Against Your Insurer. § 609.101 → Minnesota Stopped Taking People's Licenses Over Unpaid Fines. It Still Adds $75 to Every Conviction — Even a Petty Ticket. § 609.247 → Is Crime Up or Down in Minnesota? Both Sides Are Wrong — Here Are the Numbers § 609.771 → Minnesota Made It a Crime to Spread an Election Deepfake. Then the Tech Companies and a Satirist Sued, and the Hardest Question in American Law Showed Up: Where Does a Lie End and Speech Begin? § 609A.015 → Under the Old System, It Would Have Taken 173 Years to Clear Minnesota's Eligible Records. The New One Did 1.9 Million in About a Year. § 609A.055 → Under the Old System, It Would Have Taken 173 Years to Clear Minnesota's Eligible Records. The New One Did 1.9 Million in About a Year. § 611.17 → A Minnesota Public Defender Handles Roughly 280 Cases a Year. The National Standard Says That's About Three Times Too Many. § 624.7171 → Where I Stand: The Gun Deal That Can Actually Be Negotiated and Won § 626.19 → Minnesota Police Flew Drones 9,080 Times Last Year. We Know That — Because Minnesota Wrote a Law That Works. What each article says it could not verify
The standard here is sourced or omitted. When a number could not be confirmed from a primary source, the article says so instead of asserting it. Those notes, collected:
A Machine Does Exactly What You Told It to Value, and Nothing You Forgot to Mention: Why Ethics Has to Be Written Into AI Before It Ships, Not Bolted On After 2026-09-06 Nothing is quoted from interpretability research here; that work is described in general terms because I did not pull those papers' text myself. The account of how the newest reasoning models are trained is Salib and Goldstein's characterization, not an independent technical finding. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Austin Won the Two Biggest Prizes in American Technology, and Both of Them Are Gone — What Stayed Behind Is the Part Minnesota Should Be Copying 2026-09-06 I have deliberately not put a dollar figure on New York's 2007 offer or on the Texas counteroffer. The move and its year are well corroborated across independent outlets; the incentive numbers circulating for both sides come from news reporting rather than from a state budget document I could pull, so they are omitted rather than repeated. The same caution applies to SEMATECH's total federal funding over its subsidized years, a figure widely cited but not stated in dollars on DARPA's own page. MCC's dissolution dates rest on secondary historical accounts. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. A Minnesota AI Fund Is Exactly the Kind of Program That Becomes a Slush Fund, and the Only Thing That Stops It Is Not a Promise — It Is Merit Review, Published Results, and an Expiration Date 2026-09-06 The negative finding — that no appropriation for AI research exists — was verified against session-law chapter lists and a research pass, not by reading every omnibus appropriations article line by line; if a line item is buried in one, I want to know about it. The MNIT Medicaid fraud pilot is quoted as announced in January 2025; whether it is operational today was not verified here. The proposition that the Legislature may fund and contract with the University of Minnesota but not direct it rests on judicial interpretation of article XIII, section 3 that was not independently verified for this piece — the constitutional text itself is quoted exactly. Minnesota State's "third largest system" claim is its own and is not independently checked. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Already Wrote the Hardest Sentence in American AI Law. The Bill That Would Have Finished the Job Died in Committee, and the Word That Killed It Was Voluntary. 2026-09-06 The federal challenge to Colorado's earlier statute is noted only as filed; I have read no order in it and nothing here characterizes one. Whether any Minnesota business has yet been sued under the privacy act is not asserted — no enforcement action has been located in the public record, and warning letters are not necessarily public. This describes law and proposes policy; it is not legal advice, and no client matter appears in it. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. There Is No \"Hugging Face Hack.\" There Are Five, They Happened Five Different Ways, and the Differences Are the Whole Argument for Building AI Somewhere That Checks 2026-09-06 Not independently verified: Lasso Security's own page was not retrieved, so its figures are attributed to the researchers and the trade press rather than confirmed here; the effectiveness of HiddenLayer's commercial detection product is unverified, and no in-the-wild use of ShadowLogic has been reported by anyone; a related scanner-bypass finding credited to Checkmarx is reported only as ReversingLabs described it; and the statement that no public model library has shipped a defense against backdoors in a model's computational graph reflects a research pass current through September 5, 2026, not an exhaustive search. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. The University of Minnesota Is Not the Largest Research University in the Country. It Is Twenty-First — and Twenty-First, Plus Fifty-Four College Campuses in Towns Nobody Else Is Bidding For, Is a Better Hand Than the Story We Keep Telling Ourselves 2026-09-06 Two things here are not independently verified and are labeled as such above. Minnesota State's "third largest system of state colleges and universities in the United States" is Minnesota State's characterization of itself, not a ranking I checked against an independent national source. And the practical consequence drawn from Article XIII, section 3 — that the Legislature may direct Minnesota State by ordinary statute but may only fund, incentivize, or contract with the University — rests on judicial interpretation of that clause that I did not verify for this piece; the constitutional text quoted above is verified verbatim, the doctrine built on it is not. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Who Gets Sentenced in Minnesota: A Black Adult Is Six Times as Likely as a White Adult to Be Sentenced for a Felony. The Judge Is Not Where That Happens. 2026-09-06 Arrest and charging data by race are not published statewide and are not asserted here. The share of downward departures that were prosecutor-agreed is not reported by race in the Commission's summary and is not asserted. Multipliers (6.2×, 9×) are simple ratios of the Commission's per-100,000 rates. The Commission's report notes a small difference between its total case count (14,229) and cases with a recorded race (14,193); the race tables use the latter. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: You Can't Subsidize Your Way to Child Care That Doesn't Exist. Fix the Supply. 2026-09-05 Specific provider-count declines and cost figures are as reported in this series' sourced rural and affordability articles; the regulatory changes and employer-match design would be set in legislation and rule. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: Code Ethics Into AI Here, and Make Minnesota the Place the World Comes to Build It Right 2026-09-05 The specific open-model-hub security incident referenced and the exact Minnesota State campus count should be confirmed against primary reporting before being cited as specific authority; the AI initiative's funding level and standard would be set in legislation. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: We Legalized Cannabis and Kept Making the Same Traffic Stops. Fix the Enforcement, Not Just the Law. 2026-09-04 Charging and licensing figures are as compiled in this series' sourced cannabis article and should be refreshed against current court and OCM data before citing as current. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Even Donald Trump Says Credit Card Rates Are a Scam. On That, He's Right — and the Fine Print Makes Sure You Can't Do Anything About It. 2026-09-04 Trump's rate-cap proposal is characterized as a 2024 campaign-trail statement, not enacted policy. Typical credit-card APRs and the access-vs-protection tradeoff of rate caps are described in general terms. Commentary, not legal advice. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: A Centralized Power Grid Is a Target. A Distributed One Is a Defense. Home Power Production Is National Security. 2026-09-03 Incident details are characterized from widely reported public records and federal assessments and were not re-verified against primary documents this pass; confirm dates and figures before citing them as specific authority. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: Half Our Kids Can't Read at Grade Level. Fund What Teaches Them To — and Let Families Walk Toward It. 2026-09-03 The precise current statewide reading-proficiency percentage and open-enrollment participation figures are as reported in this series' earlier sourced article and MDE data; the growth-funding slice would be set in legislation. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: On Homelessness, Fund What Works and Defund What Doesn't — Compassion Has to Show Its Receipts 2026-09-02 Minnesota's current homelessness counts and per-placement cost figures were not pulled to a primary line this pass and are described in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: A License Should Protect the Public, Not the People Already Inside the Door 2026-09-02 The precise current share of licensed workers in Minnesota and the specific Minnesota statutes governing reciprocity for particular professions were not pulled to a primary line this pass and are described in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Corporations Wrote 'You Must Fight Us One at a Time.' Then Lawyers Filed 280,000 Cases at Once — and the Companies Begged for a Class Action. 2026-09-02 Mass-arbitration claim counts, the DoorDash and Amazon episodes, and debt-collection volumes are as compiled in the cited book and secondary sources, characterized rather than re-derived from primary dockets this pass. The FAIR Act is proposed legislation, not enacted. Commentary, not legal advice. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: If You Build a Product to Hook a Twelve-Year-Old, You Owe That Twelve-Year-Old a Duty — and Minnesota Should Enforce It 2026-09-01 The statutory definition of prohibited design practices and the penalty structure would be set in legislation; the litigation status of comparable design-code laws should be confirmed before relying on it. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. There Is a Clause in Your Credit Card Agreement That Already Took Away Your Right to a Jury. You Never Agreed to It, and You Can't Refuse It. 2026-09-01 Market-share and 85-million figures are as compiled in the cited book and secondary sources, not re-derived from primary data this pass; they are widely reported and directionally well established. This is commentary and advocacy, not legal advice. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: Minnesota Is One of the Biggest Health-Care Buyers in the State. It Should Stop Acting Like a Helpless Patient. 2026-08-31 The share of Minnesota health-care spending attributable to state purchasing and Montana's exact savings figures are described in general terms and were not re-derived from primary data this pass. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: The Crime Debate Is Wrong. The Problem Isn't Too Soft or Too Harsh — It's That Most Crimes Are Never Solved. 2026-08-30 Specific Minnesota clearance percentages by offense were not pulled to a primary line this pass (the BCA's site blocks automated retrieval) and are described in general terms; confirm current BCA figures before citing exact numbers. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. The People Who Pack Your Orders and Cut Your Meat Are Getting Hurt at Brutal Rates. Minnesota Now Requires Employers to Engineer the Injuries Out. 2026-08-30 Industry-specific injury-rate comparisons are characterized from widely reported occupational-safety data and were not re-derived from primary sources this pass. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. A Bank Admitted in Writing That My Account Was Drained by a Forged Check. Then It Sent Me to a Private Arbitrator — Who Turned Out to Work for the Other Side. 2026-08-30 Personal-case details are as recounted in the author's own book and represent his account. Enforcement-action figures are as compiled there and in public CFPB/OCC records. This is commentary, not legal advice. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: The Right Is Settled in Minnesota. If You Actually Want Fewer Abortions, Make It Affordable to Say Yes to a Child. 2026-08-29 This is a policy position; the affordability measures described would be set in legislation and budget. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Uber and Lyft Threatened to Leave Minnesota. Instead, the State Set a Pay Floor for Drivers — $1.28 a Mile and 31 Cents a Minute — and They Stayed. 2026-08-29 The precise effective date of the pay floor and the resolution of the Minneapolis ordinance vis-à-vis the statewide law are described in general terms and were not quoted to a specific session-law effective-date line this pass. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: Catch the Fraud, Cut the Check — A Cost-of-Living Dividend Funded by the Cheats 2026-08-28 The size of any annual dividend would depend on certified recoveries and is described in general terms; the fund's qualifying-recovery rules would be set in legislation. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: Local Police Work for Minnesota, Not Washington — Remove the Dangerous, Protect the Contributing 2026-08-27 The design of the proposed review team (composition, criteria, timelines) is a proposal to be set in legislation. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Call a Worker an 'Independent Contractor' and You Can Skip Their Overtime, Their Workers' Comp, and Their Taxes. Minnesota Just Made That a Lot More Expensive to Do. 2026-08-27 The specific 2024 penalty amounts and the exact individual-liability provisions were not each quoted verbatim to a subdivision this pass and are described in general terms; confirm against the enrolled 2024 chapter before citing a specific dollar figure. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Since January 2025, a Minnesota Job Ad Has to Tell You What It Pays. It Sounds Small. It Quietly Rebalances Every Negotiation. 2026-08-27 Enforcement mechanics and any Minnesota guidance on impermissibly wide "good-faith" ranges were not pulled verbatim this pass and are described in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: The Gun Deal That Can Actually Be Negotiated and Won 2026-08-26 Specific Minnesota suicide-share percentages and the exact provisions of Minnesota's current red-flag statute were not quoted verbatim this pass and are described in general terms; confirm current figures and statutory text before citing specifics. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. A Million-Dollar Buyer Can Evict a Whole Neighborhood at Once. Minnesota Gives Manufactured-Home Park Residents a Chance to Buy the Ground First. 2026-08-26 The exact opportunity-to-purchase notice periods, the precise relocation-compensation amounts, and the specific subdivisions of § 327C.095 were not each quoted verbatim this pass (the retrieved text was dominated by the section's amendment history); confirm the operative subdivisions before citing specific figures or deadlines. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: Stop Saying 'Men's Sports.' Call It the Open Category, and Most of This Fight Disappears. 2026-08-25 The governing-body precedents are characterized generally from widely reported policy changes and should be confirmed against each federation's current rules before being cited as specific authority. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Where I Stand: Rent Control That Rewards Building Instead of Fighting It 2026-08-24 This is a policy position, not a statute analysis; the St. Paul permit figures and the specific inflation-plus margin are described in general terms and would be set in legislation. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Made It a Crime to Spread an Election Deepfake. Then the Tech Companies and a Satirist Sued, and the Hardest Question in American Law Showed Up: Where Does a Lie End and Speech Begin? 2026-08-24 The current merits posture of each challenge (rulings, injunctions, appeals) was not read in full this pass and is described only as pending. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Built a Board With the Power to Say a Drug Costs Too Much — and Cap What Gets Paid for It. The Drug Industry Is Fighting Boards Like It Everywhere. 2026-08-22 The precise upper-payment-limit procedure and standards in §§ 62J.91–62J.94, and the status of any litigation challenging Minnesota's board specifically, were not quoted verbatim or enumerated this pass and are described in general terms; the national litigation against drug-affordability boards is characterized generally. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. In Minnesota, a Corporation Generally Can't Own a Farm. It's a Century-Old Idea Worth Defending — and It's Only as Strong as Its Enforcement. 2026-08-21 The specific ownership-reporting mechanics, the full list of statutory exceptions (e.g., authorized farm corporations, authorized livestock farms), and any Attorney General enforcement actions under § 500.24 were not each quoted verbatim or enumerated this pass and are described in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Your Boss Can No Longer Force You Into a Meeting About Politics or Religion — Including the Mandatory Anti-Union Meeting. Minnesota Banned the 'Captive Audience. 2026-08-19 The specific status of any challenge to Minnesota's § 181.531, and the full statutory definition of "political matters" and "religious matters," were not quoted verbatim this pass and are described in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Want the Flock Cameras to Stop Knowing Where You Go? Put Your Car in a Trust. Of Course, Only People Who Can Afford a Lawyer Get to Do That. 2026-08-19 This article is general commentary, not individualized legal, tax, or estate-planning advice; titling a vehicle to a trust or LLC has insurance, lending, tax, and liability consequences a reader should weigh with their own advisor, and it does not defeat a lawful warrant. The precise scope and exceptions of the DPPA are summarized rather than quoted in full. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. You Renewed Your Driver's License. In Minnesota, You Probably Just Registered to Vote — Unless You Chose Not To. 2026-08-17 Administrative-error rates and audit findings for Minnesota's citizenship-verification process were not pulled this pass and are discussed in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. You Don't Get to Choose the Company That Handles Your Student Loans. Minnesota Now Makes Them Get a License to Do It. 2026-08-16 The chapter's specific borrower-protection and prohibited-practice provisions and its enactment year were not each quoted verbatim this pass; the roughly 800,000 Minnesota student-loan borrowers figure is a widely cited estimate not re-derived from primary data here, and the scope of federal preemption is described in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Since 2024, Every Worker in Minnesota Earns Paid Sick Time. Before That, Nearly a Million Had None. 2026-08-15 The precise number of Minnesota workers who previously lacked paid sick leave is a widely cited estimate (approaching one million) and was not re-derived from primary data this pass. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. You Bought It. You Own It. Minnesota Says You — or Anyone You Choose — Can Fix It. 2026-08-14 The Act's full list of exclusions and its exact effective date were not pulled verbatim this pass; the carve-outs described (motor vehicles, farm and heavy equipment, medical devices, game consoles, cybersecurity tools) reflect the Act's general scope and the standard category exclusions in comparable state laws, and should be confirmed against the enrolled bill before relied upon. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. A Payday Loan in Minnesota Can't Legally Cost More Than 50% a Year — and the State Just Slammed the Door on the 'Rent-a-Bank' Trick Lenders Used to Dodge the Cap. 2026-08-12 Typical payday APRs in states without caps (commonly cited at roughly 300–600 percent) are characterized from widely reported industry data and were not re-derived from primary sources this pass; the access-vs-protection tradeoff of rate caps is described in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. In Minnesota, You Get Your Vote Back the Day You Walk Out of Prison — Not Years Later. The Court Let the Law Stand, but Left the Big Question Unanswered. 2026-08-12 The "more than 50,000 Minnesotans" figure is the widely reported estimate of individuals re-enfranchised by the 2023 Act and was not re-derived from primary corrections data this pass; the reentry/recidivism research is characterized in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. If You Signed a Non-Compete in Minnesota, It's Almost Certainly Void. Most Workers Have No Idea. 2026-08-10 The precise share of Minnesota workers historically bound by non-competes, and any Minnesota appellate decisions construing § 181.988, were not pulled this pass and are described in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. In January, Minnesota Starts Paying People to Take Family and Medical Leave. Here's What's Actually Coming. 2026-08-10 The exact 2026 premium rate, the precise separate medical vs. family week caps, and the specific small-employer grant amounts were not each re-pulled to a primary line this pass and are stated as generally established; confirm against the enrolled chapter and the program's published 2026 rate before relying on a specific figure. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. When Two Hospital Systems Want to Merge in Minnesota, the Attorney General Now Gets to Look Under the Hood First. Here's the Job I'm Running For. 2026-08-06 The precise revenue threshold that routes a transaction to the Attorney General under § 145D.01, subd. 2 (as opposed to Commissioner-of-Health reporting under § 145D.02), and any completed AG reviews under the statute, were not quoted verbatim or enumerated this pass and are described in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. A 26-Year-Old Died Rationing Insulin. Minnesota Passed a Law Making It Free in an Emergency — and the Drug Companies Sued, Claiming Their Property Was Being Taken. 2026-08-06 The current district-court posture on remand and the separate $35 insured co-pay cap's exact citation were not re-pulled this pass and are described in general terms. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. If You Go Bankrupt in Minnesota, the Law Lets You Keep a $10,000 Car and $1,500 of 'Anything Else.' It's Time to Raise the Floor. 2026-08-04 Comparative wild-card and vehicle-exemption figures for other states are described in general terms and were not tabulated from primary sources this pass. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. What the Uniform Teaches a Prosecutor — and Why Anders Folk's Service Matters Now 2026-08-04 This is a personal endorsement from Dave Madgett for Hennepin County Attorney, an office separate from the Attorney General race. It reflects his assessment of the candidate's qualifications; biographical details drawn from self-reported and secondary sources are attributed above. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Seventy Percent of Debt Lawsuits Are Won Without the Person Ever Showing Up. Then the Judgment Follows Them for a Decade. 2026-08-02 The current 2026 Minnesota judgment-interest rate above the four-percent floor was not captured and only the statutory floor is stated. Minnesota-specific court filing and default-rate data were not obtained; the national Pew figures are used and labeled as national. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Who Owns Minnesota? The Honest Answer Is Less Scary and More Interesting Than the Slogans. 2026-07-31 Case citations in the doctrine section state widely established holdings; before any of this language is used in a filing it would go through the firm's citation-verification process. Several recent developments are cited to news reporting by headline and date where full articles were behind paywalls, and are flagged as such. No documented Minnesota enforcement action against Temu or Shein exists as of publication; any such proposal is prospective, not a record. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. That '0% Solar Financing' Isn't Free. There's a Fee of Up to 50% Hidden in the Loan — and You'll Never See It on the Paperwork. 2026-07-30 No Minnesota Attorney General or Commerce enforcement action against solar sellers was located this pass and none is asserted; lease-escalator percentages, additional installer/financier bankruptcies, and specific state solar-disclosure laws were flagged for verification and are described in general terms only. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. If You Believe in States' Rights, You Should Understand the Oldest and Strongest Sovereignty in Minnesota — the Eleven Nations Within It. 2026-07-30 Exact dispensary opening dates, the Minnesota tribal-gaming industry's total dollar value and the no-revenue-sharing rule for gaming compacts specifically, the White Earth manoomin-rights litigation, and post-Brackeen amendments to the Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act were flagged for verification and are not stated as specific figures. Supreme Court citations state well-established holdings. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Five Minnesota Counties Have Almost No Lawyers. One Couldn't Field a Candidate for County Attorney Because Nobody Qualified Lives There. 2026-07-28 Minnesota State Bar county-level attorney counts and average ages, Minnesota Legal Aid turn-away data, and specific eviction-representation outcome percentages were not obtained this pass and are described in general terms. A MinnPost co-byline on the Red Lake County story was not confirmed; the KAXE version is the cited source. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. A Minnesota Public Defender Handles Roughly 280 Cases a Year. The National Standard Says That's About Three Times Too Many. 2026-07-27 The Board's own official weighted per-attorney caseload figure, the exact 2023-session appropriation line, the terms of the 2023 Teamsters agreement, and a survey of caseload-based ineffective-assistance outcomes were not confirmed this pass and are not asserted; the per-attorney caseload here is derived arithmetic and labeled as such. Case citations state well-established holdings. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Police Flew Drones 9,080 Times Last Year. We Know That — Because Minnesota Wrote a Law That Works. 2026-07-26 The BCA reports list per-reason codes but do not sum them, so no precise per-purpose percentage is stated; the judicial-branch warrant report, the Flock-Aerodome acquisition date, and national Drone-as-First-Responder program counts were not confirmed this pass. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Passed One of America's Strongest Privacy Laws. In Its First Year, We Can't Find a Single Enforcement Action. 2026-07-26 Because warning letters issued during the cure period are not necessarily public, this article states that no enforcement was located rather than asserting none occurred; complaint counts and the Attorney General office's privacy staffing could not be independently confirmed and are not asserted. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. You've Heard That Public Pensions Are a Time Bomb. Minnesota's Are Among the Healthiest in the Country — and the State Is Now *Raising* Benefits. 2026-07-23 The 2018 pension-stabilization law is described from its well-documented public history — a bipartisan bill signed by Gov. Mark Dayton in 2018 that lowered assumed returns, adjusted cost-of-living increases, and raised contributions across MSRS, PERA, and TRA; its exact per-plan COLA and contribution parameters and chapter/session citation were not re-verified against the enrolled bill this pass and are stated in general terms rather than as specific figures. An official consolidated statewide funded ratio across all plans was not pulled; the per-plan figures above are the verified numbers. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. 3M Made 'Forever Chemicals' in Minnesota and Paid Us $850 Million. The State's Own Books Already Show It Won't Be Enough. 2026-07-23 This article does not call Minnesota "first-in-nation" on a broad ban (Maine was first); several figures — including the DuPont/Chemours national settlement amount and the exact affected population — were flagged for verification and are not stated. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Protected the Family Home Without Limit for 135 Years. Then One Bankrupt Doctor Changed the Law. It's Time to Change It Back. 2026-07-20 Case citations state holdings verified in research; before any of this language appeared in a court filing it would go through the firm's citation-verification process. No pending 2025–26 Minnesota bill to further raise these exemptions was confirmed, and none is asserted. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Is Getting $633 Million From the Opioid Settlements. Some of It Bought Police K-9s. Here's the Ledger. 2026-07-20 A single authoritative consolidated Minnesota total, post-2019 racial-disparity multiples, and MDH's finalized 2024–2025 counts were not confirmed this pass and are described as provisional or approximate where used. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota's Law Requires 100% Carbon-Free Power by 2040. The Same Law Has an Off-Ramp Most People Have Never Heard Of. 2026-07-18 The MISO capacity-auction clearing price, LRTP Tranche 2's exact cost, specific plant-retirement dates, the Xcel data-center load figure, and specific advocacy-group quotes were flagged for verification and are described in general terms or cross-referenced rather than restated. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. A Cop in Texas Searched 83,000 Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Had an Abortion. Some of Them Were in Minnesota's Suburbs. 2026-07-17 Two names in the source material require confirmation before formal citation and are described rather than named here: the Johnson County, Texas sheriff in the abortion-search case, and Flock's chief executive. Several syndicated links were mirror copies flagged for replacement with originals. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. To Scan Your Face, Target Needs Your Consent. The Police Need Nothing. 2026-07-16 Washington and Utah biometric-law specifics, whether Minnesota runs facial recognition on license applicants, and airport-specific deployments were not independently confirmed this pass and are not asserted. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Stopped Taking People's Licenses Over Unpaid Fines. It Still Adds $75 to Every Conviction — Even a Petty Ticket. 2026-07-16 Minnesota's pre-reform license-suspension counts, racial-disparity figures, and the state's total fee-revenue reliance were not obtained this pass and are not asserted. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. There Are Companies That Know You're Depressed, Diabetic, and Behind on Your Bills — and Sell It for 12 Cents. Minnesota Can't Make Them Stop. 2026-07-12 Exact current registration-fee amounts and live registered-broker counts for California, Vermont, Texas, and Oregon were flagged for verification; statutory fees and penalties are stated as enacted. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. You Think You Spend $86 a Month on Subscriptions. It's $219. Minnesota Just Made It Legal to Get Out. 2026-07-11 No public Minnesota enforcement action under §§ 325G.56–.63 could be located in its first year and a half, and none is asserted; several settlement dollar figures are from agency announcements rather than pulled from the primary orders and are flagged as such. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. He Sold the Same Houses Over and Over to Somali Families. A Jury Just Called It What It Was. 2026-07-11 The 2024 law does not mandate an appraisal; it requires disclosure of the seller's acquisition price, and this article states it that way. The Banken restitution amount was pending as of publication and is not stated. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Under the Old System, It Would Have Taken 173 Years to Clear Minnesota's Eligible Records. The New One Did 1.9 Million in About a Year. 2026-07-10 The 1.9 million figure climbs as court review completes and reflects the mid-2026 BCA data; other states' individual clearance totals were not independently verified and are not stated. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesotans Wagered $4.9 Billion on Pull-Tabs Last Year. The Charities Kept 20 Cents on the Dollar. The State Kept More Than They Did. 2026-07-08 The exact current problem-gambling appropriation, Minnesota's national per-capita ranking on problem-gambling funding, and whether the Legislature enacted an early stadium-bond payoff were not confirmed this pass and are not asserted. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Made Wage Theft a Felony in 2019. Prosecutors Have Charged It Twice. 2026-07-07 Where two sources gave slightly different restitution totals in the Newell case ($35,000 at conviction, $37,000 at sentencing), the article uses the conviction figure and says so. A dedicated "Worker Protection Unit" in Hennepin County could not be verified and is not claimed. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota's Roads Are in Good Shape Today. The State's Own Projections Show Them Falling Apart by 2035. 2026-07-06 The frequently cited claim that one dollar of pavement preservation saves six to ten dollars in reconstruction could not be verified in FHWA sources and is not used. MnDOT and ASCE differ on congestion direction, and MnDOT and DPS differ slightly on 2023 fatality counts; where they conflict, this article uses the agency that collects the underlying data and says which. TRIP's Minnesota cost-per-driver report and Metro Transit ridership baselines were not obtained. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Keeps Two Sets of Books. Only One of Them Has to Balance. 2026-07-06 Rating outlooks and the dates of individual rating actions were not verified and are not asserted. The November 2025 forecast's roughly $3 billion figure was a budgetary shortfall and has been superseded; it is not the structural number used here. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. A Nurses' Union Bought $2.6 Million of Hospital Debt for $28,000. That's What Your Medical Bill Is Actually Worth. 2026-07-03 A widely circulated claim that 62 of 123 Minnesota hospitals spend under 0.5 percent of expenses on charity care could not be verified in any reachable source and is not used. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Gives You a Right to Sue Your Roofer. It Gives You Almost Nothing Against Your Insurer. 2026-07-01 Post-storm contractor-fraud enforcement data and NAIC premium tables were not obtained and are not asserted here. The underlying consent orders in two Commerce matters were not individually retrieved beyond the database entries. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. 650 Iron Range Miners Were Laid Off. Their Benefits Ran Out in May. Everyone Is Still Arguing About a Different Mine. 2026-07-01 Layoff totals are reported variously as 600, 630, and 650 across outlets; this article uses the figure the union used in discussing benefit expiration. Wetland acreage figures also vary by source and are not cited. A critique frequently attributed to economist Thomas Power could not be sourced to a specific published report and is not used here. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Has Lost a Third of Its Nursing Home Beds. The Age Wave Arrives in Four Years. 2026-07-01 Aggregate assisted-living enforcement data, industry closure tallies, and updated hospital-backup figures beyond 2024 were not obtainable and are not asserted. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota's Largest Graduating Class in History Is This Year's. It's Downhill From Here. 2026-06-28 Three ROI figures circulating in Minnesota debate — a $71,700 associate-degree nursing return, a $32,540 parks-and-recreation bachelor's return, and a claimed second-place national ranking from a think tank — could not be verified and are not used. Minnesota state agency sites and the Star Tribune blocked automated retrieval; affected items were obtained through archives or are cited by headline and date. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota's Immigrants Are 8.4% of the People and 10.8% of the Workforce. Here's the Rest of the Math. 2026-06-28 Contested or unproven matters are labeled as allegations with the response of the accused. Claims about community stigma that could not be sourced to a named study or source were omitted. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Nobody Reads the Contract. The Law Pretends You Did. Everyone Knows It's a Joke. 2026-06-26 Statutory and regulatory language above was taken from the primary sources, not from secondary summaries. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Legalized Cannabis. Then Charged 3,500 People Under a Law Almost Nobody Was Told About. 2026-06-24 Case captions and file numbers for the Minnesota decisions were not independently confirmed and are described rather than cited formally. No quarterly Department of Revenue cannabis collections series exists in public sources, so no actual-versus-forecast revenue comparison is made. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota's Real Brain-Drain Problem Is 18 Years Old and Picking a College 2026-06-23 Both sides of every tension in the data — students out vs. graduates in, tight vs. softening labor market, coverage strength vs. the 2025 slip — are stated with their sources. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Who Owns Minnesota's Rentals? Increasingly, Someone in Another State 2026-06-22 Pending cases are labeled as allegations; contested counts are attributed to their counters. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesotans Started a Record 73,000 Businesses Last Year. Here's What It Costs Them to Stay Open. 2026-06-20 Advocacy-affiliated figures are labeled; employer and state arguments about paid leave are quoted from their own materials. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Nobody Is Running for County Attorney in Red Lake County. No Lawyer Lives There. 2026-06-19 Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Why Your Property Taxes Keep Jumping — and Where the Money Actually Goes 2026-06-18 Where sources measure differently (DOR's 6.8% vs. the associations' 6.4%), each figure is attributed to its author. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Is Crime Up or Down in Minnesota? Both Sides Are Wrong — Here Are the Numbers 2026-06-18 Where sources conflict (e.g., St. Paul's 2024 homicide baseline of 30 vs. 33 across outlets), this article uses the direction both agree on and omits the contested figure. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Half of Minnesota's Kids Can't Read at Grade Level. Here's What the Data Says About Fixing It. 2026-06-15 2026 state test results had not been released as of publication; figures above are 2025. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Are Minnesota's High Earners Leaving? What the Data Actually Shows 2026-06-14 Every figure above comes from the listed source; where sources conflict or data cannot answer a question (like why any individual moved), the article says so. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Who Decides If Your Hospital Survives? Minnesota's Consolidation Wave, By the Numbers 2026-06-13 Senate and FTC findings are attributed to those bodies; companies dispute some characterizations. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Your Electric Bill, the Data-Center Boom, and Who Pays for What 2026-06-12 Utility assurances are attributed as such; advocacy analyses are labeled. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. Minnesota Seniors Lost $111 Million to Fraud Last Year — Double the Year Before 2026-06-11 Reported-loss figures are floors, not totals; estimates beyond reported data are attributed to the agency that modeled them. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. What Fraud Actually Costs Minnesota — and What a Dollar of Oversight Buys 2026-06-10 Every estimate is attributed to the official who made it; court-established figures are labeled as such; disputed numbers appear with the dispute. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. The Affordability Squeeze: Five Bills Eating the Minnesota Paycheck 2026-06-07 Figures attributed throughout; advocacy-affiliated sources are labeled as such. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. The $650 Tax You Never Voted For 2026-06-07 Attributed throughout; figures not verifiable against a primary source were omitted. Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com. The underlying data file is public: sources.json . Corrections: campaign@madgettformn.com .