There have been many different issues brought to my attention during the legislative session by constituents, colleagues, and others. However, one that I have been made increasingly aware of is a ...

Earl Benson welcomed the news this summer that Minnesota lawmakers had struck a deal to bolster the protective vegetative buffer strips along the state’s rivers and lakes. Studies show strips of ...

Ever since Gov. Mark Dayton won re-election in November, he has been on the attack against Minnesota farmers. Using a land-grabbing travesty of a 50-foot buffer proposal, he has toured the state ...