Sounding like an outraged King, Dayton chided and lectured state legislative leaders, making several amazing demands: “Your job has not been satisfactorily completed, so I am calling on you to…
When’s the last time DFL and GOP legislators agreed on anything? To prove there’s an exception to every rule, lawmakers in the Minnesota House joined their counterparts in the Minnesota…
In November 2015, a Minneapolis lawyer named Dan Shulman filed a purported class action lawsuit on behalf of all children in the Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools. The lawsuit…
CAE’s Nelson calls on Saint Paul to eliminate a revenue-producing fee that circumvents limits on taxation
A Supreme Court decision could shut down the way cities have quietly raised revenues without raising taxes.
Police can’t search your property without a warrant, so why should housing inspectors be any different? That’s the crux of a case going before the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday,…
Minnesota’s Constitution imposes some important limitations on a city’s tax power. For several years, the city of St. Paul has imposed a right-of-way assessment on all property owners to fund…
Are the right-of-way charges for street maintenance that Minnesota cities charge property owners a tax or a fee? Recently the Minnesota Supreme Court clearly ruled that street maintenance charges are…
The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered an expedited hearing on November 4 for three election judges who are suing Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon over instructing them to allow…
Systematic voter fraud alleged in Minnesota Supreme Court case
The supplemental budget bill without question violates the Minnesota constitution's requirement that "no law shall embrace more than one subject"
Last year Center of the American Experiment decided to get involved in a legal challenge to St. Paul’s right-of-way maintenance fee and filed an amicus brief because we believed the…
Another Minnesota city, North Mankato, has restricted one of Americans’ most fundamental property rights – the ability to rent out one’s home. But North Mankato faces not only constitutional concerns but…
The minimum wage is a classic feel-good measure: who wouldn’t want relatively low-paid workers to earn a little more money? No one. In my view, the minimum wage doesn’t do…
Update: The Minnesota Supreme Court blocked the ballot proposal from being placed on the ballot because the present city charter does not provide for submitting ordinances by a citizen petition.…
The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling today that declared a fee charged by the City of St. Paul to fund road maintenance was in fact a tax that…
The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling today that declared a fee charged by the City of St. Paul to fund road maintenance was in fact a tax that…
Why is our secretary of state hiding the 2020 voter lists?
Few issues motivate partisans on either side of the aisle more than the mere mention of the issue of voter fraud. The discussion often goes south, turning into a tit-for-tat over…
A new voter fraud case before the Minnesota Supreme Court claims 1,366 ineligible felons have cast at least 1,670 fraudulent votes in recent statewide elections, possibly tipping the outcome of…
Brooklyn Center, Minn.—For the second time this year, a Twin Cities suburb has turned back a controversial proposal to curtail one of its residents’ fundamental property rights—a homeowner’s freedom to…
Last year President Obama called on cities and states to pass legislation to require employers to provide paid sick leave to employees. Minneapolis just became the latest liberal metropolis to…
The Minneapolis City Council recently voted to require employers to provide paid sick leave to employees. The requirement applies to firms with six or more employees and extends to all…
Last week the Minnesota Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a challenge to St. Paul’s right of way maintenance (ROW) fee. The case presents the Court with an opportunity to…