American Experiment on Governance
Governance Reports
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How the Met Council Misplans the Twin Cities
How the Met Council Misplans the Twin Cities by Randal O’Toole. From the Spring 2017, Issue 7 of Thinking Minnesota....
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The Twin Cities Met Council: A Comparative Assessment
The Twin Cities Met Council: A Comparative Assessment This report is designed to give lawmakers and citizens basic information about how the Met Council compares to other large, metro area bodies bot...
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Governance Articles
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St. Paul should stop using ‘fees’ to fund street maintenance
Minnesota’s Constitution imposes some important limitations on a city’s tax power. For several years, the city of St. Paul has imposed a right-of-way assessment on all property owners to fund road...
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Editorial counterpoint: Why fight over light rail when there’s bus rapid transit?
Why fight over light rail when there's bus rapid transit? BRT is cheaper than LRT. It could actually ease congestion and, if it fails, it's less down the drain....
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Minnesota needs a Brexit from the Met Council and regionalism: Dakota County makes a move
Allow me to juxtapose two news stories. The first is a local story, a small rebellion so obscure you might not have noticed it, which signals an important shift in regional partnerships. The other is ...
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Governance Posts
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The state government is gunning for The Busted Nut
The state government is cracking down on bars and restaurants which are already struggling with reduced capacity. ...
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More and more states are taking on occupation licensing reform, greatly reducing barriers to work
Following in the footsteps of Arizona, Missouri has become the latest state to enact a bill universally recognizing out of state licenses for professions and allowing people with criminal records to b...
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Joe Biden on Hubert Humphrey, 1976
“I think the thing that's most wrong with Hubert Humphrey is that he is not cognizant of the limited, finite ability government has to deal with people's problems. And I wonder whether Humphrey has ...
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New research shows regulatory growth increases operating costs for businesses
New evidence by the Mercatus Center suggests annual regulatory growth increases operating costs per unit of output. Ergo, reducing regulation would cut operating costs significantly for businesses, pr...
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Minnesota is one of the 13 states where its legal for the government to steal home equity
If you go check out the website of Pacific Legal Foundation, this is one of the stories you will see on the website Uri is a retired 83-year-old Michigan engineer, and in 2014 he accidentally underpai...
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Governance Media
Howard Root: Five Heart-Stopping Years as a CEO on the Fed’s Hit-List (5.12.17, 50 min.) (50 min.)
Howard Root: Five Heart-Stopping Years as a CEO on the Fed’s Hit-List (5.12.17, 50 min.)...
The Twin Cities Met Council: A Comparative Assessment (Narrated PowerPoint) (09:33)
This presentation is designed to give lawmakers and citizens basic information about how the Met Council compares to other large, metro area bodies both in terms of governance structure and scope of a...