taxpayers

ST. PAUL — State and federal taxpayers will save an estimated $450 million next year on public health plans after seeking statewide competitive bids for the first time. But the decision will mean turmoil as hundreds of thousands of low-income Minnesotans will have to change health...

The claim that there is plenty of transparency would be correct. Chrysler's bailout is a great example. The CEO of Chrysler/Fiat stated they have repaid "every penny that had been loaned less than two years ago." And the administration is taking a victory lap. Why then is the taxpayer...

OLIVIA -- A lawsuit by two taxpayers against the Yellow Medicine East School District is headed to trial, with the potential for what their attorney termed a "train wreck'' should they prevail. The two parties did not reach a settlement Thursday during a conference in District Court...

As the top story in the Sept. 23 paper states, "Big win for local taxpayers." Did anyone do the math on what the percentage of savings stated for the wastewater treatment plan? It is not even a 1 percent savings. Why do they call that a big win? Who are they trying to fool? And who...

WASHINGTON -- In America's ever-more-democratic society, egalitarianism seeps into everything, even the supposedly severe meritocracy of sport. So every 7-year-old who has soccer shoes laced up by a parent gets a trophy just for showing up, and almost every college football team that...