Met Council’s Zelle finally called on the carpet over SWLRT fiasco
The construction of the Southwest Light Rail Transit Line now stands nine years behind schedule, pushed back from 2018 to 2027. At the same time, the cost of the biggest…
The construction of the Southwest Light Rail Transit Line now stands nine years behind schedule, pushed back from 2018 to 2027. At the same time, the cost of the biggest…
The Met Council would be required to pay potentially millions of dollars to condominium owners for damages, legal and other fees stemming from construction of the Southwest Light Rail line,…
The Minnesota Legislature is on “Spring Break” this week, taking some time off from all the hard work they’ve done passing bills and coming up with a plan to return…
A really bad bill that gives rights to plants and trees Rep. Kaohly Her (DFL-St. Paul) introduced a bill that gives constitutional rights to plants and animals. You read that…
Want to know why we’re worried about public safety? Ask the judges and prosecutors who keep returning thugs to our streets.
Minnesota police and public safety authorities might just as well have dialed 911 at a recent MN State Senate hearing focusing on the crime wave hitting not just the Twin…
Liberal Twitter is obsessed with the home addresses of rioters who looted and burned down Minneapolis last summer. The narrative goes something like this: It wasn’t just people from Minneapolis…
There may be an amendment to the state constitution coming down the road on the ballot this November aimed at improving the state’s highway infrastructure. If passed by the legislature,…
Lawmakers are frustrated. They cannot get enough funding for roads. Why? MnDOT has been captured by the “multi-model” approach to mobility championed by the Metropolitan Council, our mega regional planning…
Democrats are desperate to deflect responsibility for the monumental meltdown of the MNLARS vehicle registration system under the Dayton administration’s bungling bureaucracy. Legislative leaders are working on a measure to…
The geniuses that recently named Minnesota the best run state clearly never had a run-in with Driver and Vehicle Services. The public and political impatience with the beyond embarrassing breakdown…
Earmark has been a dirty word since Congress banned the practice following the fury over Alaska’s $223 million “Bridge to Nowhere.” But now earmarks–the directing of public funds to specific…