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Minnesota is losing taxpayers and their income to lower-tax states.

  Judy Santiago just wants a level playing field with the Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin nurses who compete with her. Minnesota has granted reciprocity to licensed nurses…

Minnesota’s Legislative Auditor found that over a five-month period the state overpaid between $115 and $271 million in Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare benefits due to MNsure’s failure to ensure people…

Charlie Nickoloff, president of St. Paul-based Medical Equities Investments, is a new member of the board of directors at Center of the American Experiment.

While it is tempting just to beat up on the Obama labor department and their progressive friends in the Minnesota legislature, allow me to beat up on Congress and the…

This is the first in a series of articles about Employee Freedom. The Center is re-engaging on the issue of employee freedom, often called “right-to-work,” because until the raw political…

Blueprint helps frame the State's Major Policy debate.

Minnesota is NOT keeping the Pension Promise.

The Minnesota House passed their omnibus tax bill yesterday and the Senate revealed their tax bill in committee on Tuesday.  So, the positions for all sides in the negotiations over taxes are…

The February Budget and Economic Forecast delivered the final budget projections lawmakers need to set their budget targets.  The forecast shows Minnesota will spend $39.300 billion in the current 2014-15…

Republicans in the Minnesota House released their budget targets yesterday.  The overall target for general fund spending is $39.949 billion.  An additional $384 million from sales taxes on auto parts…

In their report on the House budget targets the Star Tribune noted how the Minnesota Tea Party Alliance “called the plan ‘a slap in the face to conservatives’ because it did not cut…

Minnesota can and must support and build a world class transportation system that...

Gov.-elect Mark Dayton has announced that he will expand the state’s federally funded Medicaid program to poor adults without children as soon as Jan. 3. He plans to do so…

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's decision in 2009 to balance the state budget through unallotment made for a yearlong political drama. Folks divided along ideological and partisan lines, making hay out of…

A substantial effort is under way to save Minnesota’s General Assistance Medical Care program (GAMC) from expiring on March 1. As someone who wholly supports the reinstatement of GAMC, I’m…

Back in 2004, Rep. Steve Smith, R-Mound, and Sen. Leo Foley, DFL-Coon Rapids, were the chief authors of legislation aimed at deterring repeat sex offenders.

A quick quiz: Which of the following took place in Minnesota during the 2004 election cycle?