Regulation MPR News: ‘Look what you made me do’: Minnesota lawmakers pass proposals to crack down on ticket, junk fees Minnesota Reformer: Legislature votes to eliminate carve-outs to state minimum…

April 20, 2024 by John Phelan

Economy

Profits come from providing for people

April 19, 2024 by John Phelan

The ideological divide between the two main parties in the state legislature is increasingly stark. This means that we actually see some rather profound debates up at the state capitol…

April 19, 2024 by John Phelan

Economy

Scapegoating corporate landlords won’t address housing woes

April 18, 2024 by Martha Njolomole

DFL legislators are taking on corporate landlords in a bill moving through the legislature. HF 685, and its Senate companion SF 365, were introduced last year but went nowhere. The…

April 18, 2024 by Martha Njolomole

Economy

Loosening rules could ease childcare labor shortages

April 17, 2024 by Martha Njolomole

Childcare providers are having a hard time recruiting workers in Minnesota. According to the Star Tribune, A March survey by the Minneapolis Fed and First Children’s Finance found even though…

April 17, 2024 by Martha Njolomole

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Education

School board member throws down the gauntlet in Anoka-Hennepin

April 18, 2024 by Bill Walsh

Finally some leadership! A school board member in the state’s largest school district threw down the gauntlet this week with a list of policies, practices and funding choices that need…

April 18, 2024 by Bill Walsh

Spending & Taxes

Lakeville development proposed for parcel allegedly bought with Feeding Our Future proceeds

April 4, 2024 by Bill Glahn

A residential development has been proposed for a 36-acre plot of undeveloped land linked to the Feeding Our Future scandal. A development company located in Eden Prairie is eying a…

April 4, 2024 by Bill Glahn

Education

Extremist ideology has already hijacked Minnesota’s social studies classes

April 7, 2024 by Katherine Kersten

On Oct. 7, 2023, the world witnessed Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel — the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In the days that followed, loud voices attempted to…

April 7, 2024 by Katherine Kersten

Governance

Democratic state senator charged with felony burglary

April 22, 2024 by Bill Glahn

Will she resign from office? KVRR and other news outlets are reporting that Sen. Nicole Mitchell (DFL-Woodbury) has been arrested in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Detroit Lakes is the county seat…

April 22, 2024 by Bill Glahn

Economy

Migration data show that Minnesota is losing retirees as it is losing everyone else

April 17, 2024 by John Phelan, Peter Nelson

As I noted yesterday, the Star Tribune carried an article last week by Evan Ramstad which provided a decent tour d’horizon of the economic debate in Minnesota. Titled “Guess what, Minnesota: Retirees are moving here, not…

April 17, 2024 by John Phelan, Peter Nelson