Legislature

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “When I find a guy who can paddle better, shoot straighter, snowshoe faster, split wood quicker, and portage bigger loads, I’ll marry him.” – Dorothy…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “We have been informed that charitable hands have smoothed the later path of Dred and his Harriet, so that a freedom so tardily come by,…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “No mortal man could have surmised what was afterward learned, but the Confederate Naval officers intended to destroy the Minnesota…” – Confederate Military History, volume…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “To the Chippewas that sprawling series of lakes and rivers known as the Kawashaway was a land of the mystery.” –  Sigurd Olson, The Singing…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “I almost had heart failure before it was over.” – Charles A. Bender, May 12, 1910*

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “For the American people thus to allow such calamities to habitually occur, without adopting any adequate means for their prevention causes our country to be…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Quartzite”* This was the one word telegram that Tams Bixby and his group of investors received in 1894 from a gem expert in New York…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Day or night or good weather or bad made no difference with John Beargrease; he was sure to arrive some time with the mail intact.”…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “The selection of a chief author seals the fate of many bills… An author who possesses sound judgment and a competitive nature can steer to…

This week’s update from lobbyist John Tuma: “Please Walk on Grass” -Theodore Wirth, Minneapolis Park Board Sign in the early 1900s*