This is the essential problem with Gov. Walz' ongoing emergency powers: whole swathes of the state's economy are dependent for their survival on the whim of one man.
A new forecast for 2022-2023 is due later this month and there is pretty widespread agreement that it will see the forecast $1.3 billion deficit disappear. If it does vanish,…
Back in August, Minnesota's Department of Health put out a video saying: "There is no return to normal, but, going forward, we will return to something more”
At the same time, Biden administration must ensure that unemployment-payment increases are only temporary and can nix altogether the $15 federal minimum wage.
Covid-19 non-ICU hospitalizations are also down, by 71% from their late November peak.
Covid-19 non-ICU hospitalizations are also down, by 67% from their late November peak.
Sensible policy will come from weighing the costs of policy actions against the benefits. Too often during this pandemic, policymakers have oversold the benefits and downplayed the costs.
Minnesota's record low flu season continues. Either the number of people suffering with seasonal flu isn't down - or at least isn't down by that much - but they are…
Minnesota is lagging in its neighbors in administering the Covid-19 vaccine and Gov. Walz will only have the Trump administration to blame for another 48 hours.
Covid-19 non-ICU hospitalizations are also down, 62% from their late November peak.
Surviving the Covid-19 pandemic is hard enough without bad laws making it harder.
Gov. Cuomo finally recognizes that avoidable economic damage ought to be avoided.
Government Covid-19 shutdowns and unemployment payments which are increased and extended for an indefinite period will keep unemployment at elevated levels.
The number of Covid-19 non-ICU patients is also down: by 53.2% – or 757 beds – from their peak of late November.
The people of this state have sacrificed much in the fight against Covid-19. They deserve the truth. And they do not deserve to have their sacrifices downplayed to cover for…
Department of Health data shows that cases and the positivity rate were falling before the latest shutdown began on November 20th.
Twenty people from three households or fifteen people from four households can't get together outdoors, but 100 people from any number of households can. What is the basis for that?
There are those who are subject to the law, like Larvita McFarquhar, and those who are not, like the 'activists' who have seized effective control of a chunk of Minneapolis.…
Their event is important, yours isn't. This is 'One Minnesota'.
Given the zeal which Attorney General Keith Ellison has shown for clamping down on those business which are deemed in breach of Gov. Walz' orders, surely the organizers of this…
People's livelihoods hinge on the decisions made based - allegedly - on the data these interviewers are collecting. Minnesotans deserve greater transparency from the state government than they are getting.
If the Department of Health's aim is to find out what the vectors of transmission actually are, their questions are very poorly designed. If, by contrast, they are trying to…
We at the Center certainly do not think that bars and restaurants on reservations should close. But it is hard to understand why a state government that can stamp on…
If Minnesotans have been masking up and distancing to the extent that we have all but eradicated flu this season, then non-compliance with the mask mandate cannot be to blame…