It’s shaping up to be a nice Fourth of July weekend, and we’ve updated our 2010 governor’s race grid with the latest new websites and filings. Sen. David Hann (R-Eden Prairie) has filed, and Sen. Joe Gimse (R-Willmar) is his campaign chair, according to the filing. Also, former GOP U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman is no [...]
PIM was asked by the Washington Post to participate in a online question-and-answer session this morning about the Minnesota’s U.S. Senate election, the recount, DFL U.S. Senator-elect Al Franken, the absentee ballots, and many other subjects. Publisher Sarah Janecek (with help from PIM Web Editor Dan Feidt) fielded 22 questions in about an hour this [...]
A new round of documents obtained from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) regarding the state’s Newborn Screening Program (NBS) show interesting implications about the difference between its role catching certain dangerous genetic diseases, and the various genetic research and testing programs that the samples ultimately get sent to. There’s quite a difference between the [...]
Yesterday we posted a memo from the Office of Enterprise Technology about implementing data Application Program Interfaces (APIs) into state accounting and procurement systems. They seemed pretty skeptical, but reasonable, about the possible shortcomings and security hazards of letting queries from anonymous people into production systems.
Today, Curt Yoakum from Minnesota Management and Budget got back [...]
[This interview first ran in the April 10, 2009 issue of the PIM Weekly Report.]Among the hordes of lobbyists who ply their trade at the Capitol, only a few are unpaid citizen activists. And of these, the most indefatigable is privacy and public data expert Rich Neumeister, who’s been treading the halls there for 30 [...]
In 2008, Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed a bill that would have changed Minnesota’s newborn testing program at the state Department of Health (MDH).
Compromise legislation sponsored by state Rep. Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, this evening passed a House committee. Although different than last year’s proposal,Thissen’s bill makes another attempt to alter rules governing newborn testing and storage [...]
Oops.
In a terse e-mail Tuesday afternoon, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) had a confession to make.
"MMB received a request for data pursuant to the Minnesota Data Practices Act for the name, salary, job title, agency and ‘town of duty station’ for all State of Minnesota employees other than judicial and legislative branches," the e-mailed press [...]
