The rent control ordinance passed in St. Paul last November is having exactly the consequences that were predicted before it was passed. If you set a price below a market…
The consequences of St. Paul’s rent control policy continue to pile up. While Mayor Melvin Carter is looking for a way to amend the policy, numbers show that construction has…
Mayor Melvin Carter has been trying to make changes to St. Paul’s rent control ordinance before it goes into effect on May 1. To that, he announced on Friday that…
Restaurant and bar owners in St. Paul, already struggling to recover from COVID-19 and government responses to it, were dealt another blow last month when Mayor Melvin Carter imposed a…
Beyond the usual dangers that go with the job, Ramsey County Sheriff’s deputies now face a new threat to their livelihood, not from the streets but rather from their own…
Rent control policies nowadays follow a certain formula. To control for some of the negative effects on housing supply, lawmakers usually exempt new construction, allow vacancy decontrol — whereby landlords…
St. Paul’s Mayor Melvin Carter has expressed some concerns regarding the city’s rent control proposal even before it was passed. Specifically, he noted that the proposal was too strict and…
Want to know why we’re worried about public safety? Ask the judges and prosecutors who keep returning thugs to our streets.
Melvin Carter doesn’t have enough tools in his box to avert the coming havoc of rent control.
As the latest variant of COVID hits home, the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul have moved in lockstep to slap another open-ended mask mandate on citizens this week. The…
A Ramsey County District Court judge has suspended implementation of St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s all-or-nothing vaccine mandate on the city’s police and firefighters set to take effect in January.…
After enacting one of the strictest measures of rent control in the nation, St. Paul is set to make a significant investment in affordable housing. As reported by the Star…
In the wake of George Floyd’s death in May 2020, Minneapolis became a center for the movement to ‘defund the police.’ Last week, Fox 9 reports: Minneapolis City Council mostly…
The momentum keeps building among public employee unions opposed to St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s coerced vaccination of nearly 4,000 city employees. Three more St. Paul public employee unions have…
In early November, residents of St. Paul and Minneapolis chose to approve rent control ballot measures. Unlike Minneapolis, St. Paul’s ballot measure already included a specific proposal that caps annual…
Good luck if you experience a heart attack, house fire or get robbed at gunpoint in St. Paul soon. Unless something changes before the end of this month, it’s one…
St. Paul faces a violent crime wave that promises to get worse before it gets better any time soon. At the same time, Capitol City residents remain dangerously vulnerable due…
Prior to the passing of rent control in the Twin Cities, American Experiment published a report detailing the harmful effects of rent control and why it should not be passed.…
Over the weekend, the Star Tribune reported the following, Less than 24 hours after St. Paul voters approved one of the country’s most stringent rent control policies, Nicolle Goodman’s phone…
On Election Day 2021, the voters of Minneapolis rejected a proposed charter amendment which would have eliminated the city’s police department and replaced it with a public safety agency. Fox 9 reports:…
In the early hours of Sunday morning, a gunfight broke out in a bar on St. Paul’s popular West 7th Avenue which left 14 people injured and 27-year-old Marquisha Wiley…
State and Twin Cities leaders dither while vulnerable residents live in fear and increasing danger.
Last month, I wrote that ‘“If you build it, they will come” …might be sound advice when it comes to supernatural baseball fields, but [is] bad advice for government transit.’…
Maybe St. Paul restaurant owner Brian Ingram has been burglarized so many times he figures he doesn't have much more to lose by reconsidering a run for city hall.