These were some of the headlines in local media in July, when CNBC released its annual “America’s Top States for Business” ranking: On closer investigation it turned out that these…
Another day, another ranking of the states. On Wednesday, Gov. Walz tweeted: This was in response to a “study” — a word increasingly bereft of meaning since it is applied…
When CNBC announced recently that they had ranked Minnesota fifth on their annual “America’s Top States for Business” ranking, the state’s media went wild. No less excited were our state’s political leaders,…
Yesterday I wrote about how CNBC’s much heralded rankings of “America’s Top States for Business” actually told you very little that was useful about which American states really are top…
Minnesota’s media is always on the lookout for good news stories about the state, which might explain the coverage given to our ranking of 5th in CNBC’s annual “America’s Top…
Minnesota’s Top 5 ranking for business by CNBC caught attention recently, as my colleague John Phelan wrote about here. But the state’s drop in the education subindex over the years…
Minnesotans might have been surprised yesterday to see headlines such as “Minnesota ranks No. 5 among ‘America’s Top States for Business’ by CNBC,” “Minnesota knocks Texas out of Top 5…