Ever wonder why the cost of college always goes up, never goes down, and has been rising so much faster than inflation? The short answer is because out of control…
PRESS AVAILABILITY Saturday, March 4, 2017 from 2 to 4 pm Emerald Room at the Embassy Suites by Hilton St. Paul Downtown On Saturday, March 4, 2017, MNPCA, Center…
Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees. But in one suburban Blaine neighborhood, you can’t see the forest because the city leveled the trees without warning as part…
We are hearing the call for more immigration every day in Minnesota as employers struggle to find good employees around the state. And it’s more like an alarm since the…
I’ve written several times in recent months about how Center of the American Experiment is gearing up for a multi-year project that will make the case that large numbers of…
The omnibus elections bill to be heard tonight in the Minnesota Senate Committee on State Government Finance and Policy and Elections includes a number of important provisions to strengthen the…
The Star Tribune headlines: “Trump anxiety hits Minnesota arts groups, leaders.” This is another round in the perennial controversy over funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the…
If there were such a thing as environmental justice, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency would cease and desist from distributing the taxpayer-funded Living Green 365 monthly newsletter. Did you make…
President Trump’s speech today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) called out reporters who don’t “represent the people.” Hours later the White House prevented certain news organizations from attending…
President Trump has revoked the Obama administration’s bizarre “guidance” asserting that federal law required every public school in America to sponsor co-ed bathrooms and showers on behalf of those who…
Congressman Tom Emmer’s much anticipated (at least in the media) town hall meeting did not live up to advanced billing by most press accounts. A lively but largely civil give-and-take…
If you build it, they will come, or so the saying goes. But will they come to ride a system that is last-century’s technology? The Southwest Light Rail Transit (LRT) project…
The Metropolitan Council still holds the title of the biggest, most powerful unelected regional government in the country bar none. But that would change under proposed legislation calling for local…
The feds implemented a new rule in the federal register regarding metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) like the Metropolitan Council on the day before President Trump took office. The rule would…
The Metropolitan Council still holds the title of the biggest, most powerful unelected regional government in the country bar none. But that would change under proposed legislation calling for local…
The Trump administration is right to call the Dodd-Frank legislation passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis a “massive government overreach.” As critical repair efforts begin in Washington,…
This is a classic tale of good and evil, and the little guy getting pushed around by the big guy. In the 1970s, our country moved away from institutionalizing disabled…
A group of Minnesota legislators have introduced a resolution that calls on the federal Department of Transportation to divert $929 million in federal funding for light rail transit to pay…
Tomorrow’s Star Tribune includes an Associated Press story on “fake news.” There is much that can be said on that topic. Over the last year or two, some fraudulent news…
Michael Novak, who died this week of cancer, was most frequently described as a Catholic theologian, a brilliant and influential one, needless to say. But his scholarly interests, intellectual devotions,…
Margarita Monday, Tequila Tuesday, Wine Wednesday, Thirsty Thursday, Franzia Friday, Smirnoff Saturday… Minnesotans may soon be able to add, say, Sangria Sunday to the list. Sunday liquor sales have been…
According to the Strib, Roe “helped engineer the DFL gains that resulted in 1972 in full DFL control of the Legislature and the governor’s office for the first time in…
Many of us get nostalgic feelings reminiscing about the libraries of our formative years. But the libraries of today are not necessarily the libraries of our youth. The reality is,…
MPR reports that Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority chair Michele Kelm-Helgen has resigned in the face of a mounting public backlash over luxury suites and other perks at US Bank Stadium.…