People often say “If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t get one”. Fine. If you don't want a job at $9.50 per hour, don’t get one.
“Hate crimes” can now be directly reported via telephone in Minneapolis. Using its pre-existing, taxpayer-funded 3-1-1 service, the city launched a hotline for residents to report “harassing behaviors motivated by…
Minneapolis just became one of the first 100 cities in the world to hire a chief resilience officer. The new employee, former DFL legislator Rep. Kate Knuth, says it will…
Minneapolis’ small business owners are vital to the economy and will struggle with this proposed ordinance. All politicians like Council Member Bender can offer them are empty clichés. Since when…
Higher minimum wages hurt the very unskilled workers they are intended to help. They also hurt small businesses rather than big ones. Minneapolis City Council's discussion of the $15 per…
Last night, 800 people attended American Experiment’s 27th Annual Dinner at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Minneapolis. It was a great event, highlighted by Senator Tom Cotton’s hard-hitting defense of…
American Experiment’s report on the misguided government policies driving the Twin Cities traffic congestion crisis apparently hit a nerve at the metro area’s biggest Chambers of Commerce. The Minneapolis and…
Everyone who drives in the Twin Cities knows that traffic is terrible here, but most people don’t understand why. This morning I had an op-ed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune…
Increasing productivity is the key to economic growth. A transport policy which boosts productivity will make us better off
The problem for Hennepin County and the cities in the county, is that the sales and other taxes are already quite high. Minneapolis is also promising to raise the minimum…
I attended the Minneapolis mayoral candidates debate today at the Humphrey School at the University of Minnesota. The best part was the excellent questions asked by the moderators, Larry Jacobs…
The governor of Minnesota has attempted to de-fund the state legislature, an equal branch of the government. Like a critical parent, Dayton dressed down GOP leaders in a dramatic letter,…
Minneapolis has 400 empty lots on the North Side. In the Star Tribune, Neeraj Mehta advocates state government spending to build affordable housing. But the problem isn't that people cannot…
The ordinance banning plastic bags for many commercial uses in Minneapolis takes effect June 1. So close and yet so far for the environmental special interests determined to make the…
It took awhile, but Ramsey County and St. Paul city authorities finally got around to charging the son of Hillary Clinton’s running mate and 7 others in connection with the…
The latest issue of the Center’s fantastic quarterly magazine, Thinking Minnesota, has a terrific piece by transportation expert Randal O’Toole that delineates all the reasons the Met Council screwed up…
Spending on K-12 education was due to increase automatically by about $800 million next biennium; the GOP bill increased spending by an additional $300 million (to $1.1 billion) bringing the…
It is no surprise that Minnesota is attractive to immigrants and refugees. But why is Minnesota so unattractive to its own population—or people from around the U.S.? The answer is…
The backlash against bicyclists took long enough to get here. But it broke out full force today in an unlikely place–the Star Tribune’s op-ed page. Minneapolis resident Barbara Nylen rips…
The politically-connected former head of non-profit Community Action of Minneapolis will be doing hard time in federal prison. DFL-insider Bill Davis was sentenced today to 4 years in the penitentiary…
Minnesota does not have to have a transportation bill this year. Just like last year, there is tax and bonding money in the pipeline so a lot of things can…
The sigh of relief by Met Council brass over a $10 million New Starts federal grant that keeps the Southwest Light Rail line on life support illustrates just how jittery…
The sigh of relief by Met Council brass over a $10 million New Starts federal grant that keeps the Southwest Light Rail line on life support illustrates just how jittery…
The Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) board has been forced into a lot of decision-making lately. Two weeks ago, a group of protesters backed the MPS board into a corner, "forcing"…