Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey signed into law a $5 per ton carbon dioxide tax yesterday. The Mayor’s office claims that the move “will significantly cut pollution, save money, and move…
Land acknowledgments are based in woke ideology, not the truth. If you’ve attended a cultural event or government meeting in the Twin Cities in the last few years, you’ve likely…
Minneapolis city council is applying some insights from Econ 101. Associated Press reports: Smokers in Minneapolis will pay some of the highest cigarette prices in the country after the City…
Normally, a 40 percent increase in property taxes would send most taxpayers through the roof. But that’s a bargain for Braham taxpayers in comparison to their preliminary taxation notices that…
Apparently the Red Wing City Council never got the memo about being able to disagree on issues without being disagreeable, even when it involves members' potential ouster from office.
Wigfall discusses how to retain workers with tribal council.
The Met Council’s exemption from a federal requirement for Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) to have local elected officials, rather than political appointees, in charge of spending and policy decisions could…
WASHINGTON, DC—The Met Council’s exemption from a federal requirement for Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) to have local elected officials, rather than political appointees, in charge of spending and policy decisions…
For your summer reading: The Met Council's pet project SWLRT, now largely shifted onto the back of Hennepin County taxpayers, has been delayed again. And yet the Council is spending…
Somewhere along the line the St. Anthony City Council started holding its annual sleep-over planning session in a hotel in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park. Supposedly there’s no place…
Mondale has thrown down the legislative gauntlet, again. While annoying and not correct that the Council is acting under actual authority, he is correct that the legislature created the creature…
For all I know, the FTA’s New Starts grant program tells applicants, “Lie to me, tell me what I want to hear so I can give you the billions in…
“Metropolitan Council staff told us they use one set of assumptions (based on historical state and local funding) when preparing their federal transportation financial plans, and different assumptions (based on…
“Metropolitan Council staff told us they use one set of assumptions (based on historical state and local funding) when preparing their federal transportation financial plans, and different assumptions (based on…
The Met Council admits it has not won the argument.
“In the Council’s mind, it’s like a high-stakes poker game. The Council is betting that by spending hundreds of millions of dollars, they can pressure Congress and the FTA into…
7 Things the legislature didn't do, but should.
So why did the Council step up and make a reasonable rate increase now? Answer: They are flying out to DC to lobby Congress and the FTA/DOT on a regular…
A controversial transgender and gender nonconforming “resource toolkit” drafted by the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) School Safety Technical Assistance Council recently caught the attention of 67 Minnesota legislators. The…
A controversial transgender and gender nonconforming “resource toolkit” drafted by the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) School Safety and Technical Assistance Council recently caught the attention of 67 Minnesota legislators. The 29…
Congressman Jason Lewis’s bill reining in the Met Council has already passed the U.S. Senate and is up in the House this week. We are expecting to hear that the…
A walk in the park may be just that to most of us, but not the Met Council. It all depends on who’s taking a walk in the park. A…
A walk in the park may be just that to most of us, but not the Met Council. It all depends on who’s taking a walk in the park. A…
On July 22, 2015 the chair of the Met Council Adam Duininck sent a letter to the chair of the House Transportation Committee, in which Duininck pledged: “Should the Legislature…