Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act in a 358-32 vote, one day after the Senate approved the measure 85-5. The bill contains some good…
This week I’ve looked at how property tax hikes are making life less affordable for Minnesotans and at how it is not rising property values but increased local government spending which has driven…
Yesterday, I explained the complex process by which those property tax payments which hammer affordability for Minnesotans are calculated. This clarity reveals an important truth about property taxes. The…
How property tax hikes squeeze affordability Property taxes are a large and growing source of concern for many Minnesotans. KSTP recently ran a story titled “Valuations up, sale prices down…
Yesterday, I asked “What would a genuine ‘affordability’ agenda look like?” I noted that “the most direct way possible” for Minnesota’s state government to ease affordability concerns for its citizens…
The two parties in St. Paul have very different priorities this session. For Republicans, the focus is “affordability;” for the DFL, it is gun control and immigration. But, as we found in our…
A recent report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has determined that the regional electric grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), faces the…
Today, I’ll be participating in a hearing on the benefits of nuclear power in the Minnesota Senate Energy and Utilities Finance Committee. You can tune into the hearing by clicking…
S&P Global reports that about 20 percent of the coal-fired power plants in the regional power grid to which Minnesota belongs, the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator, or MISO, are at…