American Experiment on Governance
Governance Reports
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Closing Minnesota’s Budget Deficit
Key Findings: -Minnesota has the fifth-highest top rate of state personal income tax in the United States—9.85 percent on income over $164,400 a year. Only Oregon, New Jersey, Hawaii, and California...
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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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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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The perfect defeats the good as Dayton vetoes pension bill
Gov. Mark Dayton did not just veto a tax bill last week that passed with an overwhelming legislative majority. He also vetoed the pension bill, which was crafted under the Pension Commission leadershi...
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Governance Posts
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Deficit Leads Bloomington to Close Heavily Subsidized DMV Office
It's safe to say there won't be an outcry from Bloomington residents over the city's decision to shut down its branch of the Department of Motor Vehicles. There's probably not a lot of grassroots su...
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Lockdowns are ‘sacrifices’ largely being made by low income workers and small businesses
According to new data, during the shutdown, workers already earning over $100k saw their incomes grow and their lives improve. This cannot be said, however, for low-income workers. This just goes to s...
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Note from the Chairman: Malpractice
Minneapolis is too important to leave in the hands of its own elected officials....
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Increased regulation leads to more deaths
A new study found evidence suggesting that federal regulations are associated with increased deaths at the state level. ...
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Parents Ask Federal Court to Block Walz’s “Dangerous Mask Mandate”
A group representing thousands of Minnesota parents has filed a motion in federal court requesting an immediate injunction prohibiting Gov. Tim Walz from enforcing the state's "dangerous mask mandate ...
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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...