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Why Does Minnesota's A.G. Want to Silence Critics?
It’s not every day a state’s top prosecutor faces accusations of potential “abuse of prosecutorial discretion” and questions over “the integrity of your office.” But Minnesota Attorney Gen...
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Clear Cut Trees Reveal Solar Power's Environmental Downside
It’s a given that solar power is unreliable as a source of base load power to meet our daily energy requirements. After all, the sun—at best—shines some of the time. Great River Energy’s exper...
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Taxpayers Press for Referendum Re-Do in Bid to Halt School Construction
Rushford-Peterson Schools bond referendum passed in 2014, construction started in 2015, but a citizens group wants to turn back the clock in 2016 on the controversial $38 million project in the works....
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Minnesotans Vote with Their Feet in Move to Lower-Tax States
The “b” as in billion has gotten most of the attention generated by Center of the American Experiment’s new report [PDF] on Minnesotans moving to lower tax states at a net cost of nearly $1 b...
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Don't Miss CAE Forum on How Dodd-Frank Hurts Small Business with Top Expert Peter Wallison
The timing couldn’t be better for American Experiment’s forthcoming lunch with Peter Wallison on May 4. Wallison’s target topic, the unintended consequences of the Dodd-Frank Act, has hit the ...
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Posts by Tom Steward
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Garbage In, Government Out? Residents Challenge Bloomington Garbage System
Garbage in, government out? The Ramsey County District Court ruling in favor of St. Paul residents who petitioned the city for the right to vote on how their garbage gets picked up dominated Twin Citi...
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ICE Wants More Detention Cells in Minnesota
Apparently U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) foresees a demand for considerably more jail cells to house undocumented immigrants taken into custody in Minnesota. ICE relies on a network...
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St. Cloud VA to Scrap Dysfunctional $2.5 Million Wind Turbine
Nothing stands for government waste and green energy excess like the frozen 250 foot high wind turbine at the St. Cloud Veterans Administration Hospital. But alas, not for much longer. In July the VA ...
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No Funding for Proposed Duluth Train This Year
Minnesota taxpayers dodged another bullet with the collapse of a bonding bill at the state legislature this session. Among the pet projects thankfully left in limbo? The so-called Northern Lights Ex...
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ND Saloon Makes a Federal Case Out of City Ban on Murals
The optics may be different than the case featuring a showdown between an inflatable Mario outside a Florida video store and local authorities determined to ban it. But the same principles drive a sim...
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