It's forecast that it's something like $300 million and some a year in Minnesota.
These communities are losing economic development projects. They are losing--you know, we lost an ethanol plant in, the ...
I mean, what this does is just actually increase the cost of the projects, does it not?
In the meantime, we are seeing economic development for stalled.
So, under this level of funding, it is not going to get done by 2063. It will just never get done.
These are local communities who cannot run a deficit. These are local communities that are seeing economic development n...
The taxpayers are losing money on this.
This is not a new project, and this is a project that has bipartisan support.
These are not new projects. In other words, I support this legislation, and I would just say to the ranking--or not the ...
Yes and Minnesota has not gotten a drop of water from it, and these communities have paid 100 percent of their share.
To me, this just makes sense, this piece of legislation and it seems absurd to me that we are letting this money be unob...
Gaming has been an incredibly powerful economic development tool for Tribes.
The legalization of Internet gaming is controversial in and of itself for many reasons.
Obviously, what I'm saying here is the reason that our kids should be getting this high quality childcare is for their i...
Any changes to current gaming laws must take into account the special place that Tribes hold in the gaming industry.
Without the revenue and opportunities that Indian gaming provides, none of this would be possible.
I think that our Nation's future is very much tied up--I think it's obvious--is tied up with this issue of access to qua...
Again, we've all agreed that early childhood care is crucial to kids' intellectual development and readiness to learn.
